And another curly W is official. 3-2 on the west coast road trip so far, pretty darn good.
On another note, who on earth would have imagined that, after waiting several years to start my first game day thread, I'd go 1-0 after doing so on John Lannan versus Clayton Kershaw?!? I was just taking one for the team since we were about to not have a game day thread when the game started.
Still, even though a win is a win, there were three concerning things with this game. First, Lannan got ridiculously lucky and is still a head case. He shows flashes of brilliance at times, but that's just not going to be enough when he's as bad as he is some innings.
Maxwells four Ks speak for themselves, he's just about done with this organization.
And while we won, with six runs no less, I feel the need to point this out. We didn't score a run after the third inning. We didn't score any runs apart from Dunns two HRs. We almost definitely get shutout without two blasts from Dunn that were almost foul. We certainly don't win without them. The offense is still rather disconcerting, and this seemed like it was, apart from Maxwell, one of our best lineups of the year. The offense is scary looking down the next two months after failing to genuinely destroy Arizona, the awful pitching team that it is.
But a wins a win, and we'll take what we can get. A decent game, and no errors, awesome performance by Burnett and the bullpen at large.