Lynn (6-1) allowed three runs on three hits and four walks the first two innings, and manager Mike Matheny said he was often missing to the third-base side of the plate.
He and his wife and their two boys and girl could often be seen playing outside and taking walks, "They are very good parents, always doing things with their kids, " said Marchell Watson, a retired public-transit worker and neighbor, who said the Richard children loved her dogs, named Diva and Lady Gaga.
The walks prompted vivid memories which he included in his blog Walking on Planet C which is a frank and often uncomfortable account of life in the shadow of a potentially fatal illness.