One more thing. Someone posted a few days ago that hitters are laying off his slider and pounding his fastball, so I watched for that and damned if it wasn't true. His fastball, when it wasn't high and inside, was right down straight street.

The ball that Molina hit that finally knocked Lidge out of the game was supposed to be way outside where Ausmus set up for it. Brad throught it right down the middle belt high. The only real surprise is that Rolen and Molina's hits didn't clear the fences...they might have except for MMP's cavernous CF.