Please Check all Bats at the Door, Please.

Now that’s the way baseball playoffs should be: Crisp, quick and full of pitching duels.

I love pitching. Especially great pitching. The winning pitchers in the game ones (Sandini, East Boston; Tenney, South Boston; Del Rio, Malden; Christina, Brighton Brewers) combined for 26 innings. Only 12 hits were surrendered and no runs or earned runs were allowed by the fantastic foursome.

Sandini did his beat heart attack impression by walking seven Alibrandis.

Del Rio was his old dominant self, whiffing eight and walking one over five innings.

Christina proved me wrong by pitching his ass off in a two-hit, two-walk, four-strikeout complete game win. Mucc 26 is probably smiling as he reads this

Tenney reminded me what South Boston is capable of with his seven-strikeout, no walk effort against Gildea and the Medford Maddogs. Gildea worked it as best he could, hopefully silencing some of his nay-sayers. Props to him.

More to come tomorrow.

An appearance at a playoff game tonight may be in the works.

Boo, rain. Hooray, pitching!