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4.28.2003
Limited schedule tonight, featuring only two games. Unfortunately for them, one of the teams participating is the Florida Marlins, who are coming off Sunday's loss to the Cardinals in 20 innings. That was in Florida and tonight's game (a 9:35 start) is in Phoenix...couldn't have been a pleasant flight after losing a game that took over six hours to play. Actually, the Diamondbacks played 18 innings on Sunday in New York (they won both games against the crappy Mets), so I guess both teams are probably tired tonight. Carl Pavano had been the scheduled starter, but he was called into action late in Sunday's contest (and wound up taking the loss), so the Marlins have called up minor league pitcher Justin Wayne, who will likely see his first action of the season tonight. Wayne's a young starter out of Stanford (I write that despite the fact that he's more than three years my senior) who was part of the first Cliff Floyd deal last year, sent from Montreal down to Florida. He got a little more than a cup of coffee at the end of 2002, making five starts and going 2-3 with a 5.32 ERA in 23.2 innings, striking out 16, walking 13 and allowing 3 home runs. He hasn't even pitched 11 innings yet this year at AAA Albuquerque, so I'll spare you the meaningless stats. Anyhow, the start interests us here at the dump's sportslog primarily because he's a guy we picked up at the end of our DMB draft for our team and we'd like to get a look at him. So I'll be watching, with one eye on tonight's other game, Phillies vs. Dodgers in LA, which features Brett Myers going up against Darren Dreifort. - |