Oh, I'm glad I stayed up to watch this. And now I'm going to bed. So if anything untoward happens in the bottom of the ninth, I'll be blissfully unaware of it until tomorrow.
One double and he gets a free pass from the doghouse??? The best news, I guess, is that JD was able to strike out to end the inning and make the reverie complete. ;-)
That's how we roll. You have to be consistantly useless in all important situations (see: Gagne, Eric OR Drew, JD v.2007) for me to work up a full quota of hateitude. That's the problem with the 2008 Red Sox. Anyone can suck on any given day. Or redeem themselves.
For the record, with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning of a tie game, in which manny delcarmen hit a batter to give up the tying run to cost tim wakefield a potential win, julio lugo grounded into a double play. The case is being built.
Once again, for the record, with men on first and second and one out in the seventh, down 3-2, the intrepid Mr. Lugo saw fit to ground into an inning ending double play. The Legend grows...
And ya gotta love Manny. The only thing keeping Lugo from cropping to the top of the public consciousness is that Manny keeps winning all the games Julio tries to DP away. But I'm watching. (*two fingers from my eyes to Julio's eyes and back again*)
Tito sat Manny, but lucky for him he also sat Dustin, too, so there was somebody to come up (big) in the four hole and help get that win today for Wake. (Da MAN). Of course, it was also lucky that Mr. Lugo came up second in the inning so he couldn't end it with his usual double play--only make the almost-crushing second out--after which, the next SEVEN guys all reached base, scored the four necessary runs to bring on Pap, and the afternoon ended as it always should for my man Wake, with the big W.
I'm tellin' ya, as soon as Alex can throw a baseball, to paraphrase the estimable Mr. Cooke, a change has gotta come.
So the Milwaukee Brewers claw back to score two in the top of the 10th to take a 2 run lead against Cincy... And, as most clubs do, they brought in their "closer"... Only they don't have a closer, they have one Mr. Eric "since I stopped doing steroids my fastball ain't for s***" Gagne, and he promptly barfed up 3 quick ones. Well actually, only 2 quick ones, (back to back homers from Edwin Encarnacion and Paul Bako, yes, that Paul Bako who has hit a grand total of 15 homers in his entire 10+ year career) after which he walked Scott Hatteberg, (yes, that Scott Hatteberg) and had to wait three more batters for Salomon Torres to let Junior Griffey apply the coup de grace. 0.0 IP, 2 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 2 HR.
The classic scenario: In a game run up to an 8-0 lead, the guy goes 4-4 and even (no lie!) finds a way to manufacture an RBI. (3 so far this year--on in last night's 8-3 win, one in a 15-9 loss, and the third in a 7-2 loss).
In games ending within 3 runs of each other, Mr. Lugo is batting .233 with just 3 runs scored, (which, coincidentally, is also his accumulation of GIDP's over that span), and zero RBI.
In contrast, in fewer than half the games played, Jed Lowrie is batting .333 with 2 R and 4 RBI in games decided by 3 runs or less. (Overall Jed is batting .375 with 4 R and 5 RBI).
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One double and he gets a free pass from the doghouse??? The best news, I guess, is that JD was able to strike out to end the inning and make the reverie complete. ;-)
That's how we roll. You have to be consistantly useless in all important situations (see: Gagne, Eric OR Drew, JD v.2007) for me to work up a full quota of hateitude. That's the problem with the 2008 Red Sox. Anyone can suck on any given day. Or redeem themselves.
For the record, with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning of a tie game, in which manny delcarmen hit a batter to give up the tying run to cost tim wakefield a potential win, julio lugo grounded into a double play. The case is being built.
Once again, for the record, with men on first and second and one out in the seventh, down 3-2, the intrepid Mr. Lugo saw fit to ground into an inning ending double play. The Legend grows...
How are you *not* watching hockey right now? :-)
But, yes, that was a sad, sad double play.
And I'm still working on my Lester hatred.
And ya gotta love Manny. The only thing keeping Lugo from cropping to the top of the public consciousness is that Manny keeps winning all the games Julio tries to DP away. But I'm watching. (*two fingers from my eyes to Julio's eyes and back again*)
Tito sat Manny, but lucky for him he also sat Dustin, too, so there was somebody to come up (big) in the four hole and help get that win today for Wake. (Da MAN). Of course, it was also lucky that Mr. Lugo came up second in the inning so he couldn't end it with his usual double play--only make the almost-crushing second out--after which, the next SEVEN guys all reached base, scored the four necessary runs to bring on Pap, and the afternoon ended as it always should for my man Wake, with the big W.
I'm tellin' ya, as soon as Alex can throw a baseball, to paraphrase the estimable Mr. Cooke, a change has gotta come.
OH, OH, OH!!!
So the Milwaukee Brewers claw back to score two in the top of the 10th to take a 2 run lead against Cincy... And, as most clubs do, they brought in their "closer"... Only they don't have a closer, they have one Mr. Eric "since I stopped doing steroids my fastball ain't for s***" Gagne, and he promptly barfed up 3 quick ones. Well actually, only 2 quick ones, (back to back homers from Edwin Encarnacion and Paul Bako, yes, that Paul Bako who has hit a grand total of 15 homers in his entire 10+ year career) after which he walked Scott Hatteberg, (yes, that Scott Hatteberg) and had to wait three more batters for Salomon Torres to let Junior Griffey apply the coup de grace. 0.0 IP, 2 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 2 HR.
They just don't make pitchers like that anymore.
The classic scenario: In a game run up to an 8-0 lead, the guy goes 4-4 and even (no lie!) finds a way to manufacture an RBI. (3 so far this year--on in last night's 8-3 win, one in a 15-9 loss, and the third in a 7-2 loss).
In games ending within 3 runs of each other, Mr. Lugo is batting .233 with just 3 runs scored, (which, coincidentally, is also his accumulation of GIDP's over that span), and zero RBI.
In contrast, in fewer than half the games played, Jed Lowrie is batting .333 with 2 R and 4 RBI in games decided by 3 runs or less. (Overall Jed is batting .375 with 4 R and 5 RBI).
Let the kids play!!!
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