At Thursday night's game there were a lot of highlights. Brooks Conrad ripped out two homers - to improve on his one the night before. But Rogowski, Murphy and Denorfia also had round trippers. 
The Cat's pitchers faced
37 batters - splitting the task almost equally, and looked credible. Sean Gallagher came down and Brett Anderson came up from Midland. They looked considerably better than the set of Cat pitchers in the last few games. Like last night this was not a defensive duel - there were 20 hits (instead of 34 last night) but this time the Cats scored early and held on to win 8-3.
This was our last game of the season for 2008. If the Cats make it through Salt Lake (they need to win 2 of 3 - they then face the Atlantic division champs in a best of five next week (the first two in Sacramento) but I am fishing and my wife is going to LA to visit her mom.
Last season I was surprised at how conservative Tony DeFrancesco was in moving base runners. This season I have been surprised at how long Todd Steverson has been willing to keep a pitcher in. The 15-0 rout we had a couple of days ago at the end of the regular season could have been improved somewhat with a bit more adroit use of pitchers. Last night, I am not sure anything could have helped but again better changes in pitchers might have helped.
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