More Reasons Why We Need Baseball At North Texas.

FirefightnRick · June 5, 2011

Dallas Baptist beats Oklahoma and TCU in one weekend.

And in a little bit of interesting info the Startlegram seemed to have left off their online version this morning.

No. 24 Kent State Baseball Rolls Into 2011 NCAA Austin Regional Final With Victory Over No. 5 Texas

Wouldn't it be nice to see some of those headlines around this time of year for the Mean Green?

And by the way, there's a great story brewing regarding one of our firefighter's sons, Dillon Gee, who is from Cleburne, and played at UTA, has come back from an injury while in Triple A, got called up this year by the Mets and is currently 6-0. His dad Kevin works at Station 21 in Fort Worth.

Gee whiz! Rookie leads Mets past Jurrjens, Braves Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/04/3128167/gee-whiz-rookie-leads-mets-past.html#ixzz1OQOLytdK

Gee (6-0) won his fourth straight start, needing only 85 pitches to get through seven innings before he was lifted for a pinch-hitter. Showing smarts and poise again, he allowed four hits and walked two while finishing with a pair of strikeouts.

"He was definitely on top of his game. He was basically doing anything he wanted," Braves slugger Chipper Jones said. "Fastball in and out. Changeup, bottom dropping out of the changeup. Cutter, which is something we were seeing for the first time. Just really, really kept us off balance."

Indeed, Gee said he fiddled with a cutter while warming up in the bullpen and used it in a game for the first time. He threw five of them and got three outs with that pitch.

Gee became the first rookie in club history to win his first six decisions in a season as a starter. Jon Matlack, the 1972 NL Rookie of the Year, opened 6-0 with one win out of the bullpen.

The right-hander had to be sharp in his matchup with Jurrjens, the National League pitcher of the month for May. The two of them came in with the top winning percentages in the league.

New York has won all eight of Gee's starts this season, making him the only pitcher who has made at least five starts without his team losing any of them.

"He's good. He's moving the ball in and out, up. He changed speeds," Jurrjens said. "Everybody's really about throwing hard these days, but what Gee did today, that's pitching."

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/04/3128167/gee-whiz-rookie-leads-mets-past.html#ixzz1OQOYxfq3