Sounds like it was a good idea to skip the ballgame and compete in a bike race today: Lynx lefty J.A. Happ was jocked again and the Norfolk Tides rolled to a 10-1 win (boxscore, play-by-play). Tides right-hander Andy Mitchell became the second straight ex-Lynx to chuck seven scoreless innings in his former home ballpark, scattering six hits.
Mitchell got 16 of his 21 outs on groundballs. To rip off a great link from Andy Van Slyke, if they were making a movie about the Lynx, it would be The Summer of 4-3.
It took Gary Burnham drawing a bases-loaded walk with vs. Tides reliever Francisco Beltran for the Lynx to break a streak of 17 scoreless innings. If you were looking for a definition of "steadfast" or "dedication," that's as good as it will probably get today. Say this for the Lynx: When they do pull off a win, it tends to come in dramatic fashion. It usually has to.
Lynx right-hander Bubba Nelson (2-5, 4.31, 1.31 WHIP) faces Tides lefty Kurt Birkins (5-2, 3.18, 1.29 WHIP) in today's 1:05 p.m. getaway day game.
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Bike race or not, I still made it to the game!
My bad. Wrong blogger account. I still made it to the game.
Carl.
Carl,
You must wake up much, much earlier than some of us.
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