Weekend Update

Busy weekend+internet connection on the fritz= some light weekend posting. There wouldn't be much to say for the weekend if it wasn't for Zach Duke. He made his longest and best start of the year yesterday, most impressively escaping from a first and third with no outs situation and Derrek Lee and Aramis due up. He struck out Lee and got a DP from Aramis, ending the inning. John Wehner said (before he lulled me to sleep with his voice) that Duke's stuff gets better as he gets in trouble, and that was certainly the case yesterday. Of course the offense was conspicuously absent again. Aside from Jason Bay's homer our runs came from a Duke sac fly and a Lawton double after Duke hustled out a grounder that Todd Walker bobbled at second. At least the kid's already learning he's gonna have to do things on his own. Otherwise he'll become the shell of a pitcher Kip Wells has become, courtesy of lack of run support (today, less than three innings, six runs, not that we've scored any so far to help the cause). Looks like the team is still on the All-Star break, because they sure haven't been playing baseball this weekend (Zach Duke excluded, of course).