Jo-Jo Gets a Little Boo-boo, but Braves Prevail by One
After catching only the first two and two-thirds at lunch time, I was blown away to discover that we had pulled out a win. Not that we were in an irreparable hole in terms of runs, but the games in which your starter comes out way early due to freak injuries (manboob, anyone?) are just not destined to go well.
Here’s what Matt Diaz said about his game winning AB:
He’s good at coming inside and I knew he’d try to get the double play. I was determined to hit the bottom half of the ball.
Notice how it was not:
I was determined to honor Andruw’s memory and take the biggest, wildest cut at the ball that I could and pray that maybe I hit the ball 100 miles.
Our boys are hitting right right now. That’s reason one why I’m feeling good about us keeping the streak going when we hit the road for a change.
Reason two took a knock today when young Jo-Jo Reyes suffered a wittle bwister on his fingew and had to come out of the game so Jeff Porter could kiss-it-make-it-better. I was going to talk about how we’re finally settling into some stability in our rotation, even it wasn’t the dream rotation we had envisioned at the beginning of the season when we were looking at four previous 20-game winners followed by a rookie phenom.
In other non-news… Everyone in the world mentioned that Royce Ring snagged the win on Sunday with a single pitch. Here’s one that’s a little less common: pitcher’s getting a win without facing a batter. The last one was Big Chad Paronto last year.
Anyway, thank goodness we finally managed to win a one-run game by one run. You probably already know how I feel about that silly stat, but it was good to see us rally back on a day on which two of our pitchers had to come out due to injury. It’s been our hitting in clutch situations and when behind that’s been the concern all along, not the final score of the games.
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