I gotta say, I was a bit uneasy going into this one. We basically got trashed by the hated Doyers last night, and while I have always been a big Merrill Kelly fan, I wasn’t impressed by him during the WBC, and felt—rightly, I think—that he wasn’t nearly stretched out enough coming into the regular season. Also, recapping on Fridays is new for me, and it’s weird. So.
Turns out I was right about Kelly, in some ways. Turns out, also, that it didn’t matter.
So Kelly was taking the mound and facing off against Doyers righthander Dustin May, whose name faintly rings a bell in the back of my brain though I have no idea why, but who seems to be reasonably good at his job.