The Baseball Zealot

Hudson is on the DL. Tim Hudson.

When I read USA Today’s headline Hudson Heads to DL, it gave me a start. You see, I have Orlando Hudson on my APBA League team. And I don’t have much of a backup at second.

I feel for my colleague who has Tim Hudson, I really do. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a sense of relief when I started reading about the Braves starter and his injury.

As it is, Tim has a strained muscle in his left side and the Braves put him on the 15 day DL.

…and Orlando is healthy as a horse.

After watching the White Sox get clobbered by the D*Backs last night at the Cell I flipped on the TV to watch the Angels/Nationals game. Late in the game the Angels had a two run lead and brought on Brendan Donnelly. Frank Robinson had the umpires check Donnelly’s glove. They found pine tar, conficated Brendan’s glove, and ejected him from the game. Mike Scioscia was livid and got into Robinson’s face saying, “Let’s see how you like it when I get you back”. F-Robbie was livid, both benches emptied, tempers flared, and Nats outfielder Jose Guillen had to be restrained. Last season the Angels cut Guillen when he got into it with Scioscia.

The next inning Mike Scioscia challenged that Nats reliver Gary Majewski’s strings on his glove were too long and they needed to be trimmed, again tempers flared. As the game progressed Jose Guillen got ahold of a low fastball thrown by Scott Shields and blasted a two run shot over the fence to tie the ballgame. The Nationals scored two more times in the inning and held on for the victory.