Is Jack McDowell, as charged by the Brewers` Greg Vaughn (and, according to Vaughn, others), a headhunter?
”That`s what they claim,” Gene Lamont said Wednesday. ”I haven`t seen that. Jack pitches inside. He`s not afraid to pitch inside.”
Lamont saw Bob Walk when both were with the Pirates.
”They say he`s a headhunter, and he`s not,” Lamont said. ”He`ll knock somebody down if the situation calls for it, but he`s definitely not a headhunter.”
To some hitters, including Vaughn, a headhunter is any pitcher who regularly tries to move a hitter off the plate with a pitch above the shoulders. That isn`t Lamont`s definition.
”It`s someone who hits somebody just to hit him,” Lamont said. ”I don`t think there are any anymore.”
Oh, that`s it: The final out of Tuesday night`s game was a 43-throw rundown of Craig Grebeck between third and home. ”For the fans who stayed until the last inning,” Milwaukee manager Phil Garner told the Milwaukee Sentinel, ”we wanted to show them what we worked on in spring training.”
Grebeck got caught when, trying to score from second on a Tim Raines single, he ran through third-base coach Terry Bevington`s stop sign.
Said Grebeck: ”The only time a mistake`s good is if I learn something from it, and I learned something from it.”
Knuckle up: Charlie Hough will rejoin the rotation next Tuesday night when he faces the Royals in Comiskey Park, Lamont said.
