Not if you get a good pitcher's duel and the guy that ultimately loses leaves the game with the scored tied and doesn't get the loss.

If Patterson had pitched, say, 5 or 6 innings and given up 1-2 runs on 3-5 hits with 5-6 strikeouts and only 1 walk, and left with the score tied 1-1, he gets 10-20 points.

And if Halladay sticks around for 7 innings, and gives up 1 run on 5 hits with 5 strikeouts and 1 walk, and leaves up 2-1 and gets the win, that's another 28.

Obviously a lot to hope for - especially the Patterson part, with him leaving with the score tied - but that's what I was hoping for.

Even if Halladay wasn't pitching for Toronto and I used Patterson, he still would have gotten bombed, so the Halladay part had nothing to do with it, really, except to the extent that it affected Patterson's chances of getting the win.


"Difficult....not impossible"