You win as a team, and you lose as a team. But sometimes, you just have to take matters into your own hands. Else, you may have the manager deciding to do radical things, like deciding your not contributing to the cause. Maybe even send you down to the farm to regroup (are you listening JR?). Or worse yet, someone may decided to bring in a head shrink that will say things like “Do your best, it’s all you can do” or “Visualize a win” or even “Losing is like a disease, as contagious as the Bubonic plague”. If so, then we need a MASH unit in here, pronto!
Truth be told, Jordan Lyles is young and this will serve him well for the long run, but the short term of not winning a game yet is going to gnaw at him. It doesn’t help when you run into a red hot Florida Marlins team bolstered by the home cooking and fan attendance… oh wait…. nevermind that last part, let’s just leave it at red hot Florida Marlins. Lyles was spotted an early two zip lead in the first inning, only to have it go away as quickly as it came in the first opportunity for Lyles to toe the rubber. 2 zip was quickly 2-2 on a Hanley “Showboat” Ramirez dinger to right centerfield. BTW – why is Hanley not dotted more than any other player in the history of the game? The talented “me first, game second” player is just about the closest thing to a prima donna that I’ve ever seen. But I digress.
It didn’t take long after that for Lyles to lose the opportunity to win a game in the mlb. No, Lyles is not going to win a game all by himself, he doesn’t have the stuff to do that sort of thing. He needs help from his teammates who look lethargic out in the field and almost resigned to their fate as a second class team. Words like “We are trying hard” and “We leave it all in the field” are nice, but actions would be good to match said words too. Lyles had a huge part in the lost last night, missing spots with regularity that he cannot afford to miss. Not with this team. In the end, it was yet another loss to the tune of 6-3, almost predictably so sad to say.
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Losing is a disease, call a doctor!
Florida Marlins 6 – Houston Astros 3
WP: Javier Vazquez | LP: Jordan Lyles
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