I think Penny may be on to something here. Call it a wakeup call or the epitome of “no pain, no gain,” but after Penny took a line drive off his chest in the 1st, he suddenly started pitching like the same guy who keep the MFY scoreless in his last start. Plus in the process he earned his 100th career win. Congrats.

But his heroics got me thinking, if a liner off the chest made Penny pitch like a man possessed, who wants to take a bat to Dice-K’s chest? I’d ask H1N1E6 to do it, but I’d be afraid he’d miss and hit Dice-K’s elbow instead.