I'll be satisfied if Santana pitches as well today as another ace of the Mets did on this date 39 years ago. http://108mag.typepad.com/the_southpaw/2007/03/jimmy_qualls_on.html Note: check out the time of the game - barely 2 hours! Note: I vivdly remember watching that game on Channel 9 that night, being pissed off when Hundley tried to bunt his way on leading off the 9th, and being devastated when Qualls' hit fell in. Seaver was on Kiner's Korner after the game, of course, and it was almost funereal.
Same pathetic story when Santana is pitching - 1st and 2nd, 1 out, numbers 2 & 3 in the lineup up, and ... nothing.
I'm surprised at some of the misinformation we're hearing regarding starting pitching. Seaver was never a 300 innings guy (in fact, he never did it); for the first 12 years of his career he was consistently in the 250-290 IP range, but never over 300. Ronnie also needs to check the back of his own baseball card. He'd consistently give you 230 innings? Not really. He did that 3 times in his first 5 seasons, but never afterwards. In fact, he only broke 200 IP once after his sixth full year. That, of course, is exactly the point - maybe 6 straight years over 200 IP at the start of his career had something to do with him almost never doing it again.
According to the radar map I just looked at, it might rain hard for a while, but it's just one cell; I don't see any way that this game ends up being rain-shortened.
This is actually ridiculous - the game should have been stopped. There is no way that this game is going to be rained out here.
