C.J. Wilson did not have a good game last night. He only allowed two hits -- one was a three-run homer, sadly -- but he walked five Athletics while giving up five runs in seven innings. Based on his postgame comments, it would seem that the walks got to him a bit:
“It’s like obviously no one sets out there to go walk guys, and I haven’t been doing that lately. It’s just only against their team that I do that. They take everything close. If it’s not called a strike, then they walk. It’s lawyer ball. That’s how they roll. That’s how they’re going to beat me. That’s how they have to beat me. I have to make a bunch of mistakes and walk a bunch of guys because they’re not that good of a hitting team. The whole game was frustrating.’’
Lawyer ball? Bah! Lawyer ball would be way less fun that that. It would involve tasseled loafers and 18 sociopaths throwing out awful expressions like “he has proved too much,” “accordingly,” and “is on all-fours with ...” Ghastly business, that lawyer ball. This was just a case of Wilson having terrible control.
(thanks to reader handsfour for the heads up)
