Last year after going 18-7 with a 2.29 ERA during the regular season Dan Hendricks was the odd man out in the playoffs and moved to the bullpen. This year after going 15-8 with a 2.53 ERA Hendricks was our Game 2 starter. Our first round pick of the 2047 draft made it worth the wait with eight innings of three hit shutout baseball. Hendricks didn't walk a batter while striking out 3.
(Side note, and I don't know why this clicked, but it's a little ironic that the Hendricks name has played such a major part of my tenure with Mexico City. Shawn Hendricks was one of my first free agent signings, and part of a big trade -
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post3961786
It's funny how things work out, but that trade I was real high on Jamie Ramirez, with Shufflebottom being next, and Francisco Rojas a thrown in reliever. Five years later you could flip that order with Rojas our ace, Shufflebottom a strong #3, and Ramirez pitching out of the pen as the prospect that never really developed.)
But back to today's game and Hendricks was staked to a 3-0 lead compliments of a 3 run homer by Julio Sanchez. The Conquistadors would pile on four more runs and we rolled to a 7-0 victory to even up the Division Series.