It was a tremendous win over one of baseball’s best teams and its second-best offense, a grind-out featuring 15 scoreless half-innings out of 17, seven of those courtesy of Yovani Gallardo, whom the Dodgers should have had a pretty good book on.
After Gallardo, having been given four Texas runs in the sixth, provided a nine-pitch shutdown inning in the seventh, I’d hoped that he’d be sent back out for the eighth. He’d thrown 101 pitches, had close to his best swing-and-miss stuff of the year, and was keeping everything on the ground.
It wasn’t to pull back on the bullpen from a workload standpoint.