Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Life Imitating, Well, Your Worst Little League Experience

Great game last night between the Angels and Brewers, in which Ben Sheets of Milwaukee retired the first 20 batters he faced before losing his perfect game, which the Brewers won, 1-0 (in 17 innings), and in which the Brewers struck out 26 times! Geoff Jenkins, Ben Grieve and Keith Ginter of the Suds combined to strike out 16 times, with Jenkins tying a major-league record by striking out 6 times. That's a lot of cool air.

SportsProf harkens back to hot, humid springs where somewhat wild flamethrowing eleven year-old pitchers, overheated umpires with balloon chest protectors and undisciplined hitters combined for zany boxscores like that one. Only trouble for the Brewers is that, well, they are in the NL Central and not your local Little League. One thing's for sure, though -- Ben Sheets could pitch for my team.