You are one of two catchers on the active roster with a third catcher ready to come off the disabled list the next day. You are tabbed to start the game. What do you do? Be responsible for just about all of the team's offense, with a solo homerun to tie the game in the 5th and the game winning walk-off hit in the 11th. Omir Santos is here to stay. Sure enough Ramon Castro was traded to the White Sox not long afterward.
Now we just have to hope this clutch stuff keeps up. Did you see the graphic SNY showed comparing the numbers between Ramon and Omir since Schneider went down? Aside from the clutch hits, Castro had the slightly better numbers. Jerry seemed like he had a thing for Ramon like he had for Church. Tough love? Either way, you hope this does not affect team chemistry too much as Castro was a class clown in the clubhouse.
Mike Pelfrey and a rookie pitcher by the name of West were outstanding tonight. Pelfrey came close to completing eight innings but could not finish off some guy who's name sounds like Tom Coughlin. Bobby Parnell finished the job.
Pelfrey will probably hit or come close to hitting Cody Ross at least once every game (although tonight was more of a uniform brushing). Wonder when Ross will snap like he did last season when he got hit by Pelf.
We saw another leadoff walk by J.J. Putz.
Did you notice they put a camera in the left field corner? Maybe it will clear up the next controversial homerun touched by a fan in left field.
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