When (right-hander) Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 miles-per-hour sliders, he eats righties up, ... We needed a base hit there. We didn't need a home run. Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty (in the seventh).
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