his line looks good;
7 IP, 4 hits, 1 Run/ER, no walks or home runs, 2 K's
Did his performance match his line?
Jim captured it quite nicely. He was the beneficiary of at least three nice defensive plays in the outfield, including an outstanding diving grab of a hard-hit ball in the RCF gap by Rodriquez in the 2nd, and a tough diving grab on a sinking liner by Lane in RF in the 6th or 7th. The run scored on a sac fly to right (it was moderately deep, but Lane's throw was pretty pathetic). I never saw anything over 90 mph, and his curve wasn't a big bender. On the two strikeouts to end the first, he threw something that stayed outside to the two right-handed batters, and looked like it maybe even moved away from them a little bit. Maybe they were just ordinary fastballs, and he's got a tail; couldn't really tell. Damn left-handers; everything's backwards.
Quite a few more fly balls than ground balls. Quite a few hard-hit balls, but almost all of them turned into outs. I thought Conrad was going to get killed on one short-hop liner to second, but stood his ground and turned it into a double-play; very impressive.
And Q nailed the Omaha runner trying to steal 3rd, down by 2 with 2 outs in the 9th. WTF? The biggest benefit of the doubt my friend and I could give him was that the runner on 1st missed the sign for the double steal, so the lead runner just looked like an idiot. At least if the double-steal succeeds you've got the tying run in scoring position. As it was, it was just a head-scratcher.
