Nice catch by reader Steven K. -- we hope.
Yanks-Blue Jays, 4-2
Top of the first, two out, Thomas hitting. Orel talking about Mussina and said, "When I came over to the AL, you always looked who you were going to pitch against. Whenever I saw Mussina, I knew I was in for a battle."
Scanned his game logs, looks like Orel never faced Mussina. Ever.
So remember, aspiring broadcasters: you're totally allowed to just make shit up.
Any chance someone can help prove that Orel never did, in fact, face Mussina? That would be nice. Otherwise we'd ruin our record of being exactly 100% right about everything.
** EDIT: Blargh. They met once in the 1997 ALCS. Thanks to the several of you who instantly pointed this out.
Still kind of absurd to say "whenever I saw Mussina..." when it only happened once.
Labels: mike mussina, orel hershiser
Orel Hershiser is doing the Mets-Sox game tonight, and has generally been pretty good. He actually called a specific pitch from Schilling in the 5th -- Milledge was up, there were guys on first and second, and Orel said that because Milledge is young and has made some errors in the past few days, he'll probably be really aggressive, so Schill will most likely throw him a splitter or change on the outside corner to get him to chase. And then Schill did exactly that. It was impressive.
But then, later, he said:
Sometimes home runs are rally killers, because they clear the bases.Yes. The runners on the bases get to jog home and touch the plate, netting "runs" for their team. Thus: the rally has been "killed" to the tune of the best possible result for that moment in the game.
I know what he means -- he means that the "rally" isn't as "rallyish" because the pitcher is not in the stretch, and there are no guys on base, and whatever, but the point of rallies is to score runs, and home runs do that, quite efficiently.
That is some dumb bulldoggin'.
Labels: orel hershiser
