Williams Perez makes his starting debut tonight, and Collapse-O is back in the line-up. They’ll face one of the better young pitchers in the game, Jake Odorizzi, who has a 2.36 ERA and 0.96 WHIP. Tampa’s tied for first, BTW.
But instead of analyzing all that, I’d rather regale you with a Gallagher anecdote, after the line-up:
Peterson, Callaspo, Freeman, Markakis, Cunningham, Pierzynski, Simmons, Maybin, Perez
I interviewed Gallagher in 2000. He had just sued his brother — who performed pretty much the same act at smaller, more rural venues — because audiences were beginning to think “Gallagher Too” was the real thing.