Take 2 Roundup: Games of Sat, 1/12/08

[Proverbial Psalms]

[size=24:2e898da2ca][b:2e898da2ca]WHO NEED'S A BULLPEN?[/b:2e898da2ca][/size:2e898da2ca]
[size=18:2e898da2ca]Guidry, Gooden Among Pitchers with CG's on Saturday[/size:2e898da2ca]

<img src="http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/baseball/stratomatic/1986/story_photos/ron_guidry_3_150x205.jpg" align="left" border="1" width="150" height="205" style="margin: 0px 10px;" /> New York baseball fans enjoyed watching their teams' starting pitchers throw masterful complete game shutouts on Saturday night.

Yankees ace Ron Guidry allowed just 4 hits and 1 walk in a [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=782][u:2e898da2ca]4-0 shutout victory[/u:2e898da2ca][/url] & Mets phenom Dwight Gooden single-handedly broke the Metropolitans out of their recent 20 game funk, [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=775][u:2e898da2ca]firing a two hit, 11-0 shutout vs. the Pirates[/u:2e898da2ca][/url].

In other complete game efforts Saturday night, San Diego's Dave Dravecky went the distance against Los Angeles, as the [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=780][u:2e898da2ca]Padres won 11-2[/u:2e898da2ca][/url]. And in a game that had Twins fans wondering whether their team's bullpen even made the charter flight to Cleveland, Minnesota's Bert Blyleven was unmercifully left in the game despite allowing 14 hits and throwing over 170 pitches as [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=784][u:2e898da2ca]Cleveland Indians defeated the Twins 8-4[/u:2e898da2ca][/url].

[i:2e898da2ca]photo: SN Archives[/i:2e898da2ca]