Was that Nomo on the mound?

If you happened to miss the game tonight, you didn't miss much. Beckham had a couple of nice plays in the field, Paulie hit a homer, Guillen got ejected, and that's about it. We made Kuroda look like Hideo Nomo in his prime out there, but the Dodgers are a very solid team and their record is no fluke. Danks battled and pitched pretty good after a rough start. Hawk and "Stone Pony" kept saying how slow he was pitching to start the game and how that was effecting his rhythm and I couldn't agree more with that. After the second inning he started to speed up the game and he was much more successful.

From the telecast, I couldn't really tell exactly why Ozzie was ejected but the home plate umpire (I wish I knew his name) was very inconsistent all game. I still have no clue where his strike zone is and I am not sure if he does. I was surprised that Hawk wasn't whining more about balls and strikes, but then I remembered he started off the game saying how great of an umpire he was and I quote "He is the kind of guy you want in the World Series." (or something along those lines) But thankfully Hawk didn't resort to his "this is a good crew, but they are just having a bad night" bullshit.

The funny thing about the game is that in between innings I would flip to the LSU/Texas game and by the time I flipped back to the Sox game, we already had two outs. I think Kuroda had six 1-2-3 innings (don't quote me on that) and with the help of the home plate umpire, (there it is again) he had our hitters baffled all night.

On a different note, did anyone else watching the game notice Stone Pony's shirt? My goodness. What were they trying to do, make Hawk look young? It was this nasty looking, green, button-up polo. I'm not even sure where you would find a shirt like that. It was sort of Wal-Mart mixed with a little bit of Bass Pro Shop. So that might have been the most exciting part of the game for me. Yep, it was one of those games...

I'm looking forward to tomorrow with Floyd taking the bump. Maybe we can string a few hits together and create more excitement than Stone Pony's wardrobe. Just maybe.