Lou Piniella will treat Ryan Dempster as a delicate flower this evening against the Astros, keeping him to 80-85 pitches.
Dempster:
"I'm sure they'll probably not want to run me up too high, but hopefully I can be economical and not waste a bunch of pitches early on."
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
