Take that game-winning at-bat, for instance. "It didn't start out too good, that's for sure," said [Fish] manager Rick Forney. "He started out 0-1 swinging at a curveball that wasn't even close. And I was thinking, 'What was that?' " Forney said.

"It's not how you start an at-bat," Forney said, "it's how you finish it."

It's not an argument that third- baseman Brent Metheny is making. "It looks pretty big on paper," Metheny said, "but in a six-team league, every game is pretty much the same."