Yo, this kid can pitch

On my favorite show, HBO's The Wire, there's a scene where the fledgling drug captain Preston "Bodie" Broadus tells one of his young minions in the trade, "If you stay with me, you'll do nothin' but rise." Then he explains why. "Man, you don't rattle."

I get the same vibe from young Brewer starter Yovani Gallardo. Dude does not rattle. He doesn't even seem to sweat.

Last night he blew away the Houston Astros, completely shutting them down for the second time in his last three starts. With a pennant race in the balance, Gallardo has allowed a mere 2 runs in his last 28 innings, and zero in his last 21.

He simply doesn't rattle. If you saw him matchdown Lance Berkman last night with two on and two out in the third, you saw what I mean. It took him three pitches to set down one of the better hitters in the National League. The third pitch was a fastball on the black of the outside corner that just froze Berkman and put him down looking.