that Lenny didn't get a chance to pitch the 9th inning, especially since he was only at 85. Thought he should have at least gotten the chance (especially with a lead like that), and if he got into trouble, then bring Huston in.

Scoot's really trying to make his case here though...great job today going 4-4.

Great game all around and a stellar performance by Lenny. Days like this make it seem so easy - like they should be able to pull this off more often. (You almost forget about Friday and Saturday.)

my first since early June!

A few thoughts:

1. DiNardo threw an average of 10 pitches per inning. He probably didn't throw anything over 85 mph, but located his pitches well. (And by the way, that was a VERY extensive outside corner in the ump's strike zone -- but at least he was fairly consistent).

2)DJ was seeing pitches very well and really whacked the ball even in his outs the first two times against Davies. When he came to bat against the lefty Beal in the sixth I yelled "Dan, you're due", and he promptly crushed the first pitch into the right field bleachers. He radiated attitude as he rounded the bases and returned to the dugout (channeling anger at not playing lately?)

3. Talk about players not playing lately, who took advantage of playing time with a vengeance: I'm talking about YOU, Marco Scutaro!! Nothing like a Slusser column quoting Beane as saying he's not going to play regularly (and ANers packing his bags for him) to get a solid defensive and exciting offensive game out of him! Even more than the HR, I really liked how his head-first slide into first got him a single.

4)Swisher had an awful at bat with runners on base later in the game. He appeared to be swinging from his heels, trying to hit a three run homer, when a single would have been just fine.

in the upcoming series?

my guess is cust!

Among lefty starters with at least 100 IP, only Erik Bedard and Johan Santana have better ERAs than...Lenny DiNardo.

I think we're all assuming that DiNardo was "robbed" of the chance to get the complete game. He may have told Geren/Young he was gassed, low pitch count or not. He hasn't gone 85+ that many times, and we don't know if he might have eaten at Applebee's last night or something. It might have been a mutual decision:

"Lenny, how do you feel?"
"Well..."
"OK, y'know we need to Street an inning of work."

My killfile, when on, prevents me from posting new comments.  I can reply to already-existing comments, but that's it.  To post new ones I have to turn off killfile and then navigate to a different page, and then back to the one on which I want to post.  

Anybody else had this problem?  Any solutions?

to the 9th instead of the Street one. He seemed to be throwing 75% sliders. I thought it was strange considering Street doesn't have 9 different sliders like Calero does. It worked pretty well though . . .