When I tell people I love baseball and they reply with something along the lines of "Baseball is boring!" I tend to get pretty defensive. A well-played baseball game is a game of cat-and-mouse and a finely choreographed ballet all in one. There are few things more exciting than watching an at-bat between a great hitter and a great pitcher. And then there are games like today, which remind me that baseball can, in fact, be quite boring, and that there are few things less exciting than watching mediocre hitting against mediocre pitching.
Things got off to a quick start with Eric Surkamp pitching.