Not sure this kid at last night's 'Pigs game would agree that cotton candy is better in black and white. Somewhere around the 6th inning of last night's IronPigs game, a desultory affair that ended on a sour note, I heard someone say that Jamie Moyer had a one-hitter going in Philadelphia against the Braves. By then the score there was already 7-0 in favor of the Phils. I gave up on the 'Pigs after the seventh but by the time I got to the car, Moyer was being interviewed about his complete game two-hit shutout of the Atlantic Braves. Cheers for the 'youngster', as Larry Andersen called him, who proves again that slow and steady can indeed win the race.
During the postgame interview on radio, Moyer said, "I had fun. I probably had forgotten what it's like. It hasn't happened a whole lot in my career." At 47, Moyer is now the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a shutout and the only one with a shutout in four different decades.
Was it a tribute to Robin Roberts, the master of the complete game? If there was any tribute he could make to Roberts, said Moyer, it would be a complete game. With emotion in his voice, Moyer added that Roberts had been a special person and that he had been special in the clubhouse.
Yesterday when Jayson Werth hit his three-run homer, he uncharacteristically raised both arms and pointed to the sky as he crossed home plate. The gesture, he later said, was for Robbie, who had often spoken to him about his great-grandfather Ducky Schofield.
The Braves are in a terrible place. No-hit about ten days ago by Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez, they were almost no-hit again on Thursday night in Washington. I had thought for sure their bats would come to life against Moyer. Instead, as Chipper Jones said after the game, he "carved" them up. Jamie Moyer contines to show what pitching is all about.
