Best thing about tonight's game: We squeaked out a win against Hudson.
Yeah, he was pretty dominant - again. The team put together some good timely hits with Nick and Kearns early to take advantage of some mistakes. The defense helped Perez out a lot. He was struggling with staying ahead of hitters, but was ultimately effective despite looking pretty dicey. I have to believe the weather played quite a factor all around. In terms of Rauch and LoDuca, a one run lead is not safe with the meat of the Braves' order up. I'd like Lo Duca to stop that ball, but the pitch looked awful in person and worse when I saw it on the replay. Lo Duca's no gold glove, but I don't think it would have been automatic for anyone to stop that pitch under the circumstances. Unfortunately, Lo Duca has had limited time to work with these pitchers and vice versa. With a man on 3B, you really want the catcher to be hyperaware of the danger of that happening. But it seemed like that pitch was either a complete mistake or there was miscommunication.
The defensive play of the night was Kearns playing the ball of the wall and combining with Belliard for the great relay to 2B. Zimmerman gets the much deserved hero's welcome, the unsung heros of the evening were Nick and Kearns for the early production and defense, and the middle relief for keeping things tight after Perez left after 5.