The Bigs InsiderBilly Grant
Roanoke--Dallas Braden threw his hand up in the air after Gabe Kapler grounded out to shortstop to finish the 19th perfect game in MLB history while Stevens manager Allen Lawrence looked on passively. Lawrence tried repeatedly to take Braden out in a game that he clearly owned, but in a show of insubordination Braden refused to give up the ball.
"He knew I had the stuff," Braden said after the game, "but he kept calling me a 'saboteur.' I don't know if it was reverse psychology but his incessant trips to the mound just got me more fired up to throw strikes." Manager Allen Lawrence has been ridiculed recently for throwing the season just a month into it. "The Stevens are terrible," Commissioner Sam Kirby said last week, "they're like a lame horse that needs to be shot...desperately."
But Braden may have lit a fire in the slumping Stevens. "I don't know about a fire," Braden said, "but maybe I bought Skip some time in Roanoke."
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