Whoa!
Whoa!
Normal for Kim, or BK as he is called, is to not even give up a run. Maybe two walks.
He gives up three walks (and gets the save) and that's considered abnormal and inconsistent for him.
Schilling has told the press that the most amazing pitcher on the team is not him or Johnson, but BK.
that game you refered to was on May 11 at Phila. He blew the save and got the win. Converted all 10 opportunities before that. recap below speaks some of the striking out the side record.
Arizona 6, Philadelphia 5 (10 innings)
AP Recap
PHILADELPHIA (TICKER) -- After watching two of their stars endure
unusual collapses, the Arizona Diamondbacks found a way to pull out a
win.
Junior Spivey's double off the glove of right fielder Ricky Ledee in the top
of the 10th inning scored Steve Finley from first base with the go-ahead
run as the Diamondbacks ended the Philadelphia Phillies' seven-game
winning streak, 6-5.
The Diamondbacks appeared headed to an easy victory, staking ace Randy Johnson to a 5-0
lead on a pair of fourth-inning home runs. But Johnson could not close the deal and left after
seven innings with the Diamondbacks clinging to a 5-4 lead.
On came closer Byung-Hyun Kim, who had converted all 10 of his save opportunities this
season. Kim (1-0) struck out the side on nine pitches in the eighth but surrendered a two-strike
homer to Tomas Perez with one out in the ninth.
"Pitchers are not robots," Arizona manager Bob Brenly said. "BK is no different than anybody
else. If he threw every pitch where he wanted to, nobody would ever get a hit off him. Pitchers
make mistakes and BK is no different. He made a mistake. He hung a slider and the guy (Perez)
hit it out of the ballpark."
Danny Bautista opened the top of the 10th with an infield single but was erased on a groundout
by Luis Gonzalez. Finley forced Gonzalez at second but Spivey hit the first pitch he saw from
Phillies closer Jose Mesa (1-2) off the glove of Ledee.
"I should have had it," Ledee said. "It wasn't easy, but I should've caught it. I stretched out for it
and it hit off the top of my glove. I thought I caught it."
Phillies manager Larry Bowa was asked if he thought Ledee should have caught the ball.
"No, I don't," he said. "Ricky ran a long way for it. The ball was hit pretty hard. He probably
thinks he should have (caught it)."
Johnson allowed four runs and eight hits in seven innings. He walked two and struck out eight.
"I got in trouble when I got behind in the count," Johnson said. "I made some bad pitches
obviously. They took advantage of it and they're playing extremely well."
Philadelphia starter David Coggin surrendered five runs and four hits in 3 1/3 innings. He
walked four and struck out two.
The game was scoreless heading into the fourth. Gonzalez opened the inning with a single and
Finley hit a 1-0 pitch over the wall in right field for a 2-0 lead. Finley, who went 2-for-4 in the
contest, had been hitless in his previous 12 at-bats.
Spivey and Damian Miller walked around a flyout by Mark Grace and Craig Counsell hit a 1-2
pitch over the wall in right for a 5-0 lead. Counsell's homer was his first since June 30 -- a span
of 389 at-bats.
Johnson stranded a runner at third in the fourth and two more in the fifth. But in the sixth, Jimmy
Rollins walked and Doug Glanville launched his second homer in as many games.
"I walked Rollins and then I got behind Glanville and threw him, I guess it would be considered
a 'BP' fastball and he hit it for a home run," Johnson said.
Pat Burrell opened the seventh with his eighth homer and Travis Lee followed with a single.
Johnson got the next two batters but Rollins and Glanville stroked consecutive singles to slice
the Phillies deficit to a run. Rollins and Glanville engineered a double steal but Johnson got Jason
Michaels on a foulout to end the threat.
When Kim struck out the side on nine pitches in the ninth, it marked just the 33rd time in history
that a pitcher has achieved the feat. Coincidentally, the last pitcher to accomplish the feat was
Johnson, who did it August 23.
Kim got Travis Lee to open the ninth but his 0-2 pitch to Perez caught to much of the plate and
he hit it over the wall in right for his second homer of the season.
"He threw me a slider and I got it," Perez said. "Hopefully, I can keep going like that and help
the team again."
"It was a slider," Kim said through an interpreter. It was a mistake."
