Wandy Rodriguez Pitches A Complete Game 5 Hitter To Beat Pirates

Go On BOY!!! The way he made them feelHe knocked them offn their feetyeah yeahTheir lonely days are here.. They hate the feelin he's givin them3 nasty pitchesAnd they're back on the bench againHe gives them fever from on the moundThey try to hit, but just have to sit back down The ump is squeezin himSomethin fierceBut he just goes outAnd Ks Steven Pearce That curve is cuttin from 12-5The FB is hoppin, full of lifeIf they get on, He gets a double playThey take a pitch but strike outAnyway OOOOOO OOOOOO OOOOOOOO The way he made them fee eeeeeeeelHe really turned it onnnnnnnHe knock em offn their feetyeahyeah His losin days are gon neee (apologies to Mr. Glove) Yessiree, Wandy just had awesome command of that FB AND his emotions. Quintero can't frame pitches for spit - I checked with gameday, just to be sure and yes, EIGHT pitches which were strikes were called balls (and only the very last pitch, which was actually a ball, was called a strike.) Wandy didn't get but 2 pitches on the Black called strikes and he shrugged it of and just went out and flat out DOMINATED. 4 singles, 1 IF squibbler, 1 walk, 2 GIDP and 11 K - 125 pitches, 85 strikes. He got stronger and stronger as the game went on and his velocity on the FB increased from around 89 to 92-93. Yes, that little itty guy can throw a baseball 93 MPH and there are guys twice his size who can't. He threw first pitch strikes to 21/31 batters (actually, 23 of 31 batters if you look at location of the pitches) and threw the curve for strikes, too. Of his 11 Ks, 9 were on FB, 2 were on curves and 7 were swinging. There was one bad minute I had in the 9th, when he gave up one of his 5 piddly singles of the day to Delwyn Young with 2 outs and Garrett Jones up. If Coop had pulled Wandy to put in Tim Freaking Byrdak, I think I would have had to reach straight through the TV and strangle one crazy manager. But fortunately, Wandy hadn't given up any runs, and the rule is that Coop doesn't pull you with man on first, 2 out in the 9th as long as you are pitching a shutout. All bets are off if you gave up 1 run, no matter how many runs you are leading by. Hats off to Miggy, who looked like dog poo yesterday, for making 2 really excellent double plays, especially the second one, on which Matsui threw high and Miggy had to adjust to throw to Lance in time. Michael Bourn looked a lot better today, going 2 for 3 with 2 runs scored and an RBI. Pence still doesn't look right with his stance/swing and neither does Carlos, who did hit a double barely fair inside the RF line. His swing was early on a ball out of the strike zone and that isn't good hitting. Hope he can get himself fixed during the break. And Lance? He's hitting .381/.536/.524/1.060 for July and is now .273/.401/.529/.930 for the year. He's been out of his slump for 2 months now. I'll drink to that...