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Try to capture the flavor of the James Paxton start tonight?  

Hmmm ... it used to be popular to say stuff like "Dante Bichette is only the 6th player in history to have three straight seasons of 110 RBI and 8 outfield assists."  Nowadays you don't see it much.  But if you tried to do it with K-Pax tonight?  Maybe like "the 3rd Mariner pitcher since Hargrove to get KO'ed after 4 IP despite 7 K's and one hard-hit ball"?

No.  Watching the game tonight was like --- > watching a Randy Johnson start from 1990.  GLS said "the game was hard to watch."  Just so!  EVERY at-bat was hard to watch in 1990, because The Big Unit was just this close to wiping them out in a holocaust.  But he'd walk 5 guys on 3-2 counts and give up two seeing-eye singles in the 5th to lose the game.

Same thing with Paxton.  The Twins couldn't get wood on the ball, but ... errors and seeing-eye grounders and more errors and then, maybe a centered pitch and ... maddening.

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