how about the donnie hume, james simmons matchup tonight? hume took a no hitter into the 9th, but gave up back to back hits to open the inning and was taken out. of course the reliever let both score to mess up his line a little, but still a great game. simmons 9 innings, 3 hits, 1 run, 2 walks, 9 strikeouts hume 8 innings, 2 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk, 10 strikeouts i watched the game as they had it free on cstv.com and both guys looked good. simmons has very good control of both a 4-seam and 2-seam fastball and also has a really good changeup. something that may hold him back is he doesn't have much of a breaking ball. hume also commanded his fastball very well and was working with a pretty good change up as well. he dominated with pretty much just those 2 pitches until about the 7th when he started throwing his slider more and it also looked like a solid pitch.