Feeling Yes

So the 8th inning on last night sucked for the bullpen and then began to suck for many of us on Twitter.

I got tweets about AA standing pat in the off season and that this is the punishment, the fruition of things knowing fans have been demanding for months.

My dad, back in the day, once told me that if I was going to watch this game, I was going to have to toughen up. So toughen up, people. It's game 2. I can only get so worked up about wind whipped flyballs and frozen fingers.

So what was good?

Dickey was pretty great last night and certainly pitched well enough to win. There was a lot of talk pre-game how Dickey doesn't pitch well when he's cold, but it didn't seem to bother him as much as it did say, Loup and Cecil.

Dickey wasn't perfect. He threw too many balls, but he was able to dance in and out of trouble. And he did this. 

Beautiful.

“I had to make three really good pitches, and thankfully I did, but that was a microcosm of most of the night,” Dickey said, after striking out Brian McCann with sinkers (?) and a knuckle to end his outing.

Martin was fine, for the most part, catching Dickey but seemed to hit a snafu catching Cecil's curveballs. But again, game 2.

Devon Travis continues to hit the baseball and look like he belongs.

As news that Roberto Osuna debuted as a human after Alex Rodriguez debuted as an MLB player spread around, there was this:

This all day. And twice on Sunday.

Castro was also awesome. I just want to caution people about demanding that Gibby go to these guys all the time. Use them up now and they aren't there later. Win the battle, lose the war.

DeRosa and Bautista.