Drinos 10, Fish 1

I probably could have gone with a photo of Chase Headley. Kid had a career night going 3-5 with 4 ribeyes, including a bases loaded, bases clearing double in the bottom of the 1st. I could have gone with another photo of Scotty Hairston, who just made the big board after Saturday's win over the D-Backs, because of his 3-5, 3 ribeye night that featured a mammoth bomb to left field.

Or, I could have gone with a photo of Randy Wolf, who rebounded nicely from a couple dubious outings to go 7 innings, strikeout 7 and give up only 1 run. Heck, I even could have gone with a photo of Luis Rodriguez who made a "some kinda nice" diving grab at shortstop in the bottom of the 6th, when the game was still only 4-1. Muy bien, Luis.

But no, I'm going with a photo of Brian Myrow, the 31 year-old journeyman first baseman who hit his first major league bomb last night pinch hitting for Wolf in the bottom of the 7th (thanks to the beasts at madfriars.com for the photo - I can't recommend their excellent site enough). Myrow has been absolutely raking at Portland the last two seasons (he hit .354 last season and was hitting .332 this year at the time of his call up yesterday) but is as blocked as anyone can possibly be with Adrian playing almost every inning of every game at first base for the big league club. But no matter, says Brian Myrow. He just kept raking to the point that KT and Grady and the rest of the front office boys couldn't ignore him any longer.

The bottom line is this: Myrow may be the best pinch hitter from the left side in the entire organization at this point. It's time to see what he can do.