Show of hands, how many of you out there were excited to see Joba Chamberlain enter the game with two runners on and nobody out in the seventh inning? Joba struck Willy Aybar out on three pitches, including a fastball that hit 101 mph on the scoreboard radar gun. According to Sean Brennan in the Daily News:

Did Chamberlain think his triple-digit fastball got into Aybar’s head?

“I think a little bit,” Chamberlain said. “But you can’t rely on that because then you get too complacent and you leave one over (the plate) and it doesn’t matter how hard you throw to these guys. They can come in 101 and it’s going to leave at 140 and go about 500 feet.”

…In all it took Chamberlain 16 pitches to nail down six outs, and the righthander seems to have grasped the notion that low pitch counts may be more effective than logging strikeouts.

“I’m probably a little smarter,” Chamberlain said. “I’m still young and dumb sometimes but that works for me. I just try to attack the zone and be aggressive. I’m a little more experienced (though), not necessarily any smarter.”

Leave the smarts to Joe G, son, everything else will fall into place.