Baek had some really dazzling stuff last night. I say that because Mark Grace and Daron Sutton, admittedly two announcers, especially Sutton, who are at times insufferable, kept commenting on Baek's pitches, saying things like, "Wow, that was some pitch," and "That was some changeup by Baek." Grace and Sutton may not be the best announcers in the business, but Grace was one of the best hitters of the 90s and Sutton pitched for awhile in the minors and is the son of Hall of Famer Don Sutton. So these guys know a good pitch when they see it.
But even with Baek's great outing, the play of the game was Chase Headley's Chuck Connors impersonation to gun down Stephen Drew in the bottom of the sixth. On a base hit to left, Headley took the ball on one hop and fired a perfect low liner right into the glove of Nick Hundley. The ball went into Hundley's glove half a foot in front of the plate at the same moment Drew started his slide. Hundley held on to the ball with confidence - something Michael Barrett lacks when he tries to squeeze the ball into his mitt with a runner bearing down on him from third base - and met Drew's foot with leather.
As Mud Grant would - and probably did - say, "That's some kinda nice."
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