More interesting observations from a guy we'll see in the playoffs:

The series did end in a split because Saunders pitched his tail off today. In the past few weeks I think we've seen four of the top 7-10 young pitchers in all of baseball in Eric Bedard, Scott Kazmir, Jason Shields and Joe Saunders. After seeing Bedard this spring I was under the impression that this was the year he'd stop flying under the radar but I didn't expect him to be this dominant this fast. His numbers are staggering, even more so when you consider he's doing it in one of the most offensive oriented divisions in the game.

Saunders impressed me immensely in the fact that it looked to me like his second start against us he used some stuff he learned from the first game in Anaheim, applied it, and dominated. He was hitting 93-94 pretty consistently today and commanding his fast ball to both sides of the plate.