Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics isn’t an overpowering pitcher, but as I said in my preview a month ago, he’s a gamer, and will give you everything he has when you put the ball in his hand. Whenever he’s on the mound he doesn’t back down. He’s already proved that twice this year. He proved that by telling A-Rod to get off his mound. He followed that up today by throwing a perfect game against one of the best teams in the leagues, Tampa Bay. I caught innings six through nine, and he never really looked nervous, just fired up the way he always is. After Kaplar fouled off what felt like 20 pitches in the 6th, Dallas cruised the rest of the way and only fell behind one hitter 3-1 after that. I was strangely confident that he was going to come through while I watched, maybe a little too confident for comfort. The main reason was because he threw a ton of strikes mixing up speeds and locations. He was hitting the target nearly every pitch. Since he’s not overpowering it was truly a masterful performance. Braden is a guy that didn’t seem like he was ever overwhelmed by it on the mound, he just kept dealing with one pitch at a time. He had a ton of friends and family including grandma on hand, as he bought out a lot of section 209 to watch the game. It was the first perfect game in Oakland since Catfish Hunter decades ago. Dave Stewart threw a no hitter in 1990, but there has been nothing since! I’m not sure if the difference was NOT having their normal catcher Kurt Suzuki behind the plate. Instead he had Landon Powell, his catcher he worked with routinely in AAA, and from what I saw he rarely shook off a pitch, so you have to give Powell a little of the credit. The one bad thing about this perfect game is if/when he does bean A-Rod, it will be more obvious because now everyone knows he has great control!
May 9, 2010
Dallas ”Get Off My Mound” Braden’s Perfect Mother’s Day
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May 9th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Is it fair to say Dallas pitched like a mother today?
May 10th, 2010 at 4:53 am
chappy
It’s not so much that he achieved it but how he did and the emotional tear also ! His grandmother who raised him was there to witness it all. Braden apparently lost his mother (died) as a child. So it was left to his grandmother to raise him . A tremendous performance by him and the A’s !
Alan Parkins
May 10th, 2010 at 5:25 am
Hypocrisy Is The Norm Nowadays
Alan Parkins
May 10th, 2010 at 11:39 am
chappy
Since when did the Eagles’ DeSean Jackson become privy to knowing what’s best for the Eagles ? He talks all of the bull_hit ’bout McNabb after the guy has been traded rather than facing him man to man ! That’s what I call a fu_king bull_hit artist who’s full of his own self importance. Kevin Kolb will be lucky if the team can eke out 9 wins this upcoming season with him leading them as their qb !
Alan Parkins
May 11th, 2010 at 9:39 am
chappy
Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse in baseball . It’s on the cusp of really getting bad . Rangers’ owner Tom Hicks has so pis_ed off his creditors as well as the lone prospective bidders for the team that Selig may well have to intervene. If that happens then MLB will have to purchase the organization and pay off the Rangers’ debts which are said to be in excess of $200 million.
And by all accounts the bidding syndicate are said to be no longer interested in dealing with Hicks directly or with anyone from within the organization.
If that happens and Chuck Greenberg drops out of the bidding then MLB is stuck with a franchise that can’t even meet its financial obligations of paying its own damn staff much less its other bills. They either declare bankruptcy or have MLB and the other owners now meet the Rangers’ outstanding obligations until another potential bidder can be found .
Alan Parkins
May 11th, 2010 at 9:40 am
chappy
Chances Are ……..
Alan Parkins
May 11th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
chappy
Here’s one that you can sink your teeth into .
The NFL Has A Zero Tolerance of What ?
Alan Parkins
May 17th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
[…] me that he’s for real. I was all but ready to post about Rondo last Sunday had it not been for Dallas Braden’s perfect game. As stacked as the Magic are, they simply won’t be able to outlast the Celtics this […]