Man, it was, uh, it was, uh, old school, you know, pitchers' duel and, um, you can see both
pitchers feeling like they didn't have any margin. And after that first inning, and we're
fortunate to, uh, you know, squeak one out and uh the leadoff homer, uh, from Lindo, but after
that, I mean, there was just nothing happening , uh, just two great pitchers and we haven't
seen McLClain. Uh, up close, I don't recall, but, uh, man, he's special. And, um, so our guy,
uh, matched him and we had a good one tonight too. So for us to, you know, get him out of the
game and maybe having a good or bad and playing a little, uh, small ball and, Getting
getting a big hit. So yeah, a good win. It's, it's hard to imagine any more growth. I, I
think right now he's kind of, this is who he is here as, uh, you know, one of the elite
pitchers in baseball, um, you know, even after that 7th inning, the, the big, uh, the big
strikeout against, I don't know if it was Vientos or whatever, um, just the no emotion,
getting ready to go back out for the 8th inning. Um, seeing a guy that was really
throwing the baseball really well and there's just kind of the ability to make pitches when
he needs to, so. For me, um, last, last year, uh, there was some lot of growth and then he
just kind of carried it over. He's going through it right now, but for him to kind of
stick his nose in there against Raley and find a way to, I don't know if he was down two
strikes or not, but just to flare ball to, to get a game-winning hit, he helped us win a
baseball game. And so, you know, you, you face McClain who was throwing wiffle balls up there
and then you got a tough lefty, you know, the game on the line, they walk Shohay to get to
you and Still hang in there and, and you know, get a knock was was big for us. It should be
big for his confidence, you know, we have other guys that we feel like that can close out
a game and Edwin, you know, talking to the, uh , training staff and the pitching staff, they
want to see him throw a bullpen, um, just to kind of. You know you're down for 4 days or
whatever it is, and they wanted to see a pen before he got into a game, so we did that
before and so that's why we weren't we didn't go to him in the 9th tonight, but tomorrow if
he comes in after this pen, then he'll be he'll be ready to go. But I do think that
missing out on the postseason for the rightful reasons and. You know, didn't participate in
the WBC, which is something I think he was excited about looking forward to, um, you know,
has that kind of stoked that fire to kind of even more so than he normally is, but, uh, he's,
he's throwing the baseball well and no one prepares as well as he does. This guy is
prepared, yeah.