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Friday, October 7, 2005
Even it up
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Smoltzie outduels The Rocket. McCann, not Francoeur, is Our Hometown Hero of the night. Braves get one back from the ‘Stros with Cartman-esque authori-tay.
But in that bandbox Houston calls a ballpark, our pitching has to be spot-on. There is literally no room for error since there is literally no room for much of anything in those field dimensions. This will be the biggest game of Jorge Sosa’s career and he’s got to pitch like it.
What worries me is who’ll be his backstop. If it’s McCann, I feel a sense of comfort. If it’s Estrada, I feel a sense of the Astros going up 2-1 on us. We can all thank a certain Mr. Darin Erstad for knocking the stand-in-there out of Johnny back in June. He’s just not the same catcher he was before that hit and McCann, rookie though he may be, is the guy we need in there for the NLDS.
Let the Kids play, Bobby. They do us more favors in the field than on the bench.
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