Sweepless Night
The Outlaws pick up a feel-good 8-0 win tonight. It snaps the season-long five-game losing skid, prevents them from being swept in a series of more than two games for the first time this year and shows the Long Beach Armada, their likely opponent in the GBL championship series later this month, there's some fight left in the dog — something Mark Parent questioned earlier this week.
The MVPs? On most nights, it could have been Scott Dragicevich (3-for-4, two RBIs, two runs) or Jesse Kovacs (big second-inning homer, two hits, two runs). But the unquestioned star was Daniel Howard (Yes, the "Duck" — see the "Duck Down" entry below for more details.) The 22-year-old righty from Tennesseee went seven innings, allowed just six hits, walked three and struck out two in a real nondescipt scoreless outing. For Howard, "nondescript" is so much better than "awful," which he will be the first to tell you is the best way to describe his nightmarish 27.00-ERA Outlaw debut in St. George last week.