As I looked forward to the games scheduled for last night, I thought that Josh Beckett would be the player to watch. He did pitch well but he was overshadowed last night by Tommy Hunter in the head to head match against the Rangers.
Hunter made just his eight career start and picked up his 2nd win of the season and the 2nd win of his short career. He just celebrated his 23rd birthday, so good for him. A few more good starts and maybe he will find a solid place in the Rangers rotation.
John Lannan of the lowly Washington Nationals picked up a complete game shutout win against the struggling Mets. It has to be discouraging for the Mets to have such a huge payroll yet be so unproductive. I sense that Jose Reyes being out of the line up has an adverse effect on the entire squad. All that being said Lannan was very impressive. The 24 year old lefty evened his record at 7-7 on the year and picked up win #18 in his career. If he played on a better club his record would be much more impressive. His ERA is in the mid 3's and he knows how to pitch.
Finally another great start was turned in by Blue Jays young gun Brett Cecil pitched seven innings of 7 hit shutout ball and struck out nine Indians before handing the ball over to the bullpen. Unfortunately the boys in the pen could not get three outs in the ninth and took a win away from Cecil. Brett remained at 3 wins on the season, but it should have been 4.
The Jays have some good young pitchers that have shown their stuff this year. Ricky Romero and Mark Rzepczynski have looked good as well. If the Jays could ever get the bats going and the bull pen doing there job, there would be some hope. I guess you could say that about all the teams.
Will any of these guys win even a 100 games? I am not sure but it sure is fun watching them pitch well now.
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