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cknox0723 · 08-14-2006, 09:11 PM

Game number one hundred and fifty-nine of the 2007 Pale Hose season features two of the most unlikely fifteen game winners around - 32 year old journeyman Jeff Suppan (of Kensington Gardens) had a very inauspicious debut season in Detroit last year, posting a won-lost of 5-8 with an unsightly 5.18 ERA, a full run over the league average and then some. But a new grip on the circle changeup has given the right-hander control over the little white sphere that he's never had before; though his arm has tired a bit as summer has turned to fall, "Fwendy" still has an earned run average well below 3.50 and a run average solidly antes the league average of around 4.00. Our moundsman Jon Garland can't make quite the same claim, but the just-turned 28 year old was on the verge of the independent leagues after a 4-15 season two years ago and a 2006 that was heading in much the same direction...until August. Since then, Garland's won 21 games -- 21 more than he had before.

He'll probably have to wait 'til next year for number twenty-two, because "Jon Moo" gets clocked for four hits and two runs in the bottom of the first of this one, his thirty-fifth start of the season, a hole that only grows after Carlos Pena's third-inning long ball and deepens in the most unmerciful of ways in the fourth, when the opposing pitcher Suppan comes around to score after a double to leadoff the inning. I guess the four inning, four run line from Garland is a bit of deja vu, maybe a polite nod to the lousy pitcher that he ceased to be just over a year ago.

If there were ever a time for it, it is game one hundred and fifty-nine of the 2007 season, 'cause the Boston offense was stymied by Cleveland pitching once again, dropping our wild card competitors two games back with three to play. Never before has a two-game losing streak provided such a rush of momentum.

08-14-2006, 09:11 PM	#835
cknox0723 All Star Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 1,957	looking at the world through a windshield Game number one hundred and fifty-nine of the 2007 Pale Hose season features two of the most unlikely fifteen game winners around - 32 year old journeyman Jeff Suppan (of Kensington Gardens) had a very inauspicious debut season in Detroit last year, posting a won-lost of 5-8 with an unsightly 5.18 ERA, a full run over the league average and then some. But a new grip on the circle changeup has given the right-hander control over the little white sphere that he's never had before; though his arm has tired a bit as summer has turned to fall, "Fwendy" still has an earned run average well below 3.50 and a run average solidly antes the league average of around 4.00. Our moundsman Jon Garland can't make quite the same claim, but the just-turned 28 year old was on the verge of the independent leagues after a 4-15 season two years ago and a 2006 that was heading in much the same direction...until August. Since then, Garland's won 21 games -- 21 more than he had before. He'll probably have to wait 'til next year for number twenty-two, because "Jon Moo" gets clocked for four hits and two runs in the bottom of the first of this one, his thirty-fifth start of the season, a hole that only grows after Carlos Pena's third-inning long ball and deepens in the most unmerciful of ways in the fourth, when the opposing pitcher Suppan comes around to score after a double to leadoff the inning. I guess the four inning, four run line from Garland is a bit of deja vu, maybe a polite nod to the lousy pitcher that he ceased to be just over a year ago. If there were ever a time for it, it is game one hundred and fifty-nine of the 2007 season, 'cause the Boston offense was stymied by Cleveland pitching once again, dropping our wild card competitors two games back with three to play. Never before has a two-game losing streak provided such a rush of momentum.