As Tim Lincecum began to close out the fifth inning on ESPN’s broadcast of the Mets-Giants game, we noticed that young Timothy had just creeped above 80 some pitches (we had a dedicated fantasy baseball stare going on). Well, about the same time, Dusty Baker appeared to notice as well, because he said something to the effect of “he’s right about 80 pitches now, so you figure at this pace he’ll go six, seven innings max.”
It took us a good five minutes to realize that this was, in fact, not a joke. And we were going to post it immediately, but because it was more out of place than Drew Gooden’s neck-patch, we didn’t come out of our shock-induced semi-coma for about eight more innings.
We’re now certain that this was all a dream and that we couldn’t have possibly heard such hypocritical commentary from such a professional booth man. Because if it wasn’t a dream, then we would have heard Dusty say:
“Well, John, 81 pitches through five for the young flamethrower–if I’m Bruce Bochy I’ve gotta think that a complete game or extra innings aren’t out of the question just quite yet.”
That just seems easier than digging up the pitch count logs for Kerry Wood and Mark Prior.
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The reason he got pulled after 7 is because the Giants can feel secure that once they take the lead, their bullpen will cover them. I mean, no way a bad-ass like Armando Benitez balks twice in one inning and gives up a walk-off shot to deep center, right?