Hearing them describe it as border battle time puts me in mind of the book i chose as a 5th grader to read to a 2nd grader about eating bread with the butter side up.
I did speculate you meant that, and seeing someone respond on that assumption, it seemed more likely, but well, sometimes hitting it where they ain't is a good, too....
Just spitballin' here... (in the brainstorming sense, not in advocating the use of foreign substances to affect a baseball's trajectory)
Scheduled day off?
Better pitch hitting option?
Faired better against Brewer's starter?
Or maybe he just is second when ordered reverse alphabetically by first name?
Thanks for grabbing it!
(and i'm glad i checked before i went through the process of typing it in rather than cutting and pasting, though i'm no stranger to bein' ninja'd)