Tillman starting the Futures Game

[charliec107]

It looks like Tillman will get the start today. The starting lineup is listed in this article. I assume it will just be an inning or two, but still a good honor for him.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090711&content_id=5827588&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[wickedwitch]

Congrats to him!

[QBsILLEST1]

Nice, my DVR is already set to record, and Ill be watching from work as well......

[JTrea81]

Typical ESPN coverage so far. No mention of Tillman or Matusz when they were talking about the top pitchers...

[JJLinn29]

Sigh, looking shaky.

[nevadaO]

The rain isn't helping much...

[Moose Milligan]

What channel?

NM, found it.

[snatch311]

That's 3 outs missed by inches that I think a good major league defender could've gotten.

[epic]

I think he looks good. His change is impressive and Escobar shouldn't have gotten on first to begin with. Tillman completely fooled him on that curveball and he barely made contact.

Although two runs have scored now they aren't making good contact, he's definitely got the hitters off balance. That ball hit to Heyward was the only one hit hard and I thought he caught it.

[Mooreisbetter27]

Tillman looks slightly shaky, but the error really hurt him this inning.

So far they've had a single to the catcher and an error. A weak grounder to second. A walk, a bloop single a grounder to third. And now a HBP.

Maybe it's nerves. It's also raining though, so who knows.

[Mooreisbetter27]

Tillman looked real slow going to cover 1st.

Took him 29 pitches to get out of the first.

[JTrea81]

Not a bad effort from Tillman. The rain probably didn't help matters...

[Lucky Jim]

Pitch FX had him sitting at 93-95. Nice.

[Mooreisbetter27]

Tarp is on the field.

Rain delay.

[Lucky Jim]

Not real impressive but it was only one inning. His fastball looked to top out at about 92. His curve looked good but he only dropped one in there while I was watching and he got behind most of the hitters. He did show good poise no matter what he was feeling inside. I'll go by what he's done all season over this one inning but I was hoping to see a more impressive outing.

PitchFX had him topping out at 96.