7.29.01 ROCHESTER RED WINGS vs TOLEDO MUD HENS
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have won 14 of their last 16 games. The Rochester Red Wings have lost 15 of their last 17. Here’s to consistency.
This team is truly beneath contempt.
I don’t care how many RBIs he has; with his unerring knack for turning triples into singles on the base paths and all the defensive mobility of Jabba the Hut, Calvin Pickering is utterly worthless. For every run he knocks in he costs the team easily two more. Tonight his inability to lean over and get his glove on the ground twice allowed extra-base hits that resulted in three Mud Hens runs. Twice ground balls bounced right past him down the first-base line, and twice he couldn’t lean over! A few years from now, your team is going to contemplate a deadline deal for Calvin Pickering in the hope of getting some cheap pop in the line-up. Mark my words: you’ll live to rue that day if they go through with it.
Then there’s Eddy Garabito. Remember that great at-bat of his a while back, when he just stood there, oblivious, after taking ball four? Tonight he struck out swinging, stepped out of the batter’s box, adjusted his batting gloves, tapped the dirt off his spikes, straightened his helmet and got back in! No wonder he makes so many errors—how can you keep your eye on the ball when you’ve got your head up your ass?
The one bright spot for the Wings tonight was the recently promoted Tim Raines, Jr., who doubled in a run, stole two bases, and just about killed himself in center field on two plays in a row. The guy’s a gamer, and as such, I doubt we’ll have the privilege of watching him for very long.
Twenty-two-year-old righthander Nate Cornejo turned in seven impressive innings for the Detroit Tiger–affiliate Toledo Mud Hens, whose other distinguishing characteristics included a pesky lead-off man in Jermaine Allensworth and absurdly large numbers on the back of their uniforms, numbers that could’ve been peeled off the side of an old DC-3.
FINAL SCORE: MUD HENS 7, RED WINGS 3
FOOD CONSUMED: Dollar hots night, so a couple of those.