"Wild Thing...You Walk Everything"

One of the few good things about summer is that I love watching baseball games on TV. I don't really have a favorite team, just like watching interesting games. Watched most of the San Francisco vs Atlanta ball game today. Interesting game…SF was up 8-0 at one point, I think. Then Atlanta battled back to make it 8-4. Things were looking up for ATL, until they put Joey Devine on the mound to pitch. That was almost hard to watch. He only pitched for 2/3 of an inning, while SF batted around the order. The poor kid was all over the place with his pitches, with a couple sailing well wide, bypassing the catcher and hitting the backstop. It reminded me of that great call from Bob Uecker in the movie Major League as the ball thrown by Charlie Sheen’s character goes way wide of the plate and Bob (the announcer) calmly goes “Juuuust a bit outside.” That was always one of my fave movie quotes. By the way, Joey wasn’t the only pitcher throwing stuff wide this game. I haven’t seen that many wild pitches outside of a game of Tony LaRussa Baseball 3… Anyway, I was surprised ATL left the kid in there for as long as they did. They finally pulled him, put Kenny Ray in, and he got the last out of that half of the inning for the Braves. The final score wound up being 12-6 for SF. Joey Devine now has an unsightly season ERA of 63.00. Ouch. Hopefully he can get his stuff together and find the strike zone next time…