okay just stop hitting against him period (finally got a couple of good innings!!) and no sooner do I say that do yall get another single!! sigh
Have there ever been 3 Rice Owls on the same team on the same field at the same time in any sport before today?
Nice job by Tim Byrdak......we may be keeping 13 pitchers for awhile if he keeps it up. Having 2 lefties in the bullpen would give Coop some more options. Interesting (per the article below) that the Tigers gave up on him so quickly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lefthander Tim Byrdak, who was an All-Southwest Conference selection as a junior at Rice in 1994, joined the Astros on Monday after being called up from Class AAA Round Rock. "My career has gone full circle now, back to where it all began with me," said Byrdak, who pitched a scoreless eighth inning Monday night. Byrdak went 3-0 with a 3.20 ERA in 39 games last year with Detroit but was released after a terrible spring in which he struggled with his mechanics. The Astros signed him shortly thereafter. "It was an embarrassing type of spring," Byrdak said. "I felt there was a mechanical flaw somewhere going on, and we just couldn't find it. It took (pitching coach) Burt Hooton down there in Round Rock to find it, and things have been going pretty well down there so far." EDIT: He was 0-1 with a 13.50 ERA in ST. 10 IP, 21 Hits, 15 Runs, 9 BB, 9 K
Nice "clean" inning for Valverde against the middle of the Reds lineup. Good win all the way around, although the Reds looked out of it there at the end.
