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Ollie's Comeback Start In Brief

With a nod to Sergio Leone and Lookout Landing.

The Good

Ollie's fastball averaged 90.7 mph and topped out at 92.8.  On the season, his average fastball had been 89.2, and was 88.4 in his last start in May before being DL'd.  His release point was consistent and he got Manny Ramirez out 3 times.

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The Bad

108 pitches, 55 strikes, 53 balls.  He walked 7 and surrendered 4 hits in 5 innings of work, a recipe for disaster most of the time.  He was quite lucky to give up just 2 runs.  Also, he registered just 4 swinging strikes.  This is not the way to start a game:

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via www.brooksbaseball.net

(By the way, Brooks requested linking to a Sons of Sam Horn online auction to benefit ALS, a worthy cause)

The Ugly

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(Not pictured: Ollie's filthy David Beckham faux-hawk)

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Naturally, this is already blowing out of control.

Metsblog gave the gameball to Oliver Perez. Folks…He is not more than a #5 pitcher.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Jul 8, 2009 11:13 PM EDT reply actions  

"He was decent tonight"

Yeah, they only look at the Wins, there’s no other reason.

by Clemenx00 on Jul 8, 2009 11:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

Pepto!!

There is no Met fan that wants to see Ollie succeed than me but he was extremely fortunate that we scored 5 runs which seems lucky in itself lately. I had a hard time watching him pitch tonight.

He’d have a pitch that looked unhittable and then throw like 6 straight balls. 7 walks in 5 innings and metsblog seems happy about it? Wooow is all I can say. Let’s scored 5 on Randy “Met Killer” Wolf tomorrow!!

If we can pull it out tomorrow the Mets have a great chance on Friday against a LOST Arroyo!

Ok I’m getting a lil too excited again. Its time to hit the pink bottle again

by RIPShea on Jul 8, 2009 11:49 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

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