We knew Dallas Braden was good. We knew he was tough. We knew he had a bit of fight in him. But just how good he could be was simply astonishing. Who knew he could be perfect?
27 up, and 27 down.
On a perfect Mother's Day, you really couldn't ask for more. Sure Braden got some really good help from Kevin Kouzmanoff, and the rest of the Oakland A's defense, but as Dallas said after the A-Rod debacle "I don't care if I'm Cy Young or if I'm the 25th man on the roster, if I've got that ball in my hand and I'm out there on that mound, that's not your mound. If you want to run across the mound, go run laps in the bullpen. That's my mound."
It certainly was his mound Sunday. As if every pink bat, arm band, and ribbon fired him up; Braden retired batter after batter with spot-on location on eac ...
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