Last night, Angel Berroa was given two free passes by Ervin (not “Magic”) Santana.
I don’t want to overplay the magnitude of this information, but it was perhaps the worst pitching performance against the Royals ever.
Seriously, how do you walk Angel twice? Don’t you know his stats? Last night’s two unintentional walks now represent twenty-two percent of his total for the entire year!
I mean, if you think you’re on the verge of walking Berroa a second time in one game, don’t you just plunk him instead? He gets hit by pitches all the time. Nobody would suspect that. I say you groove one right between the rib cage and the hip. A nice soft breaking ball that puts him on base and saves your reputation.
Ervin? Are you listening to me?
In other news, the Royals traded Ruben Gotay to the Mets for Jeff Keppinger. Both players have put up similar career numbers, but Keppinger is a little bit older, so I don’t really know what the point of this trade is.
Probably the biggest news in Keppinger’s past is that he was included in the trade that sent Kris Benson from Pittsburgh to the Mets and unleashed the Anna Benson publicity firestorm upon the world. No word yet on whether Keppinger is married and if his wife is a semi-attractive publicity whore.
I guess we all can dream.
