Yeah, we're going to struggle to hit Mr Kazmir today.

that the a's offense struggles.  pitcher throws strikes and he's got a dominant pitch.

tonight is not the night to take pitches.  they need to swing early and often.

Let's start a new streak.  We can still get 20 wins in August!

If the A's strike out 27 times and still outscore the Rays, will we have won?

6 K's?

we hvn't GIDP'd yet

I see. I went to "nap" before the game yesterday, but didn't get up until noon today. I have such an exciting life.

Korach just said the phrase "routine flyball to Jack Cust"

2-0 Devil Rays. The A's are somehow going to have to do something other than strike out if they want to change this score...

Shame he's not an A.

Woo!

Ray Fosse is the rare guy who can make Vince Cotroneo sound good by comparison.

Furmaniak's "shot" to the pitcher might as well be a home run. In fact, it was quite "Kendallian", but cause for celebration, nonetheless.

:-(

Topsy turvey team.

according to Fosse, is that Brian Runge is getting caught up in Kazmir-love and expanding the strike zone. Not that Kazmir is dealing, not that our lineup sucks. It's Runge.

Take your medicine Marco!

has used that 510/707 joke twice now. Does he think he has a new audience every night?

The FCC allows that?

might actually be more interesting than this particular game.

Still have the vertigo? Looks like Hannahan came in and Furmaniak moved to SS.

now i can tell this a ho hummer

Fake to third, throw to first! That play never works!

they were talking about how the Dodgers were seriously considering letting go of some of their best prospects (probably including LaRoche) to get Blanton, but how they were partly scared off by Blanton slumping in late July.

Bummer, because the Dodgers really have some prospects we could use. I'm ambivalent about trading Blanton, but if the right deal's there to add young hitting talent I think the A's have to go for it. LAD would be a great trading partner.

Andrew Brown in. Blanton had 102 pitches, so that makes sense.

Gomes nails the catwalk, and nobody knew where it was. Run scores. 5-0, Rays.

Teams aren't supposed to score a lot of runs against our pitching staff! Outrageous!

12 K's for the man. Maybe I shouldn't have said our "soft-hitting club will be going up against the frequently strong-throwing Scott Kazmir..."

Oh lawd.

(getting monies worth from mlbtv)

Short hops the ball of his chest, and gets an error. Oh yeah, run scores as well. 7-0 Rays.

An error for Ellis?

Swisher botches back to back plays. Curt Young comes out to talk with Casilla, and he should be heading straight to center field instead.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/s...

"The official scorer who charged Detroit's Placido Polanco with an error in the first inning of the Tigers' 9-6, 11-inning victory over the Yankees has changed the call."

The bleeding continues.

nothing more to say

Doubles the A's hit count, and proves that singles are for lowly squads!

Larry Davis out to wield the black staff of doom.

9-1 Tampa Bay, and a near home run!

Johnson scores on sacrifice fly. 7 more to go, A's!

9-2 Rays and Tampa Bay looking to add on.

Might as well make it 12-2 for perfect series symmetry?

Are we fairweather fans?

than this....

Out of contention
Late summer
Being trounced by D'rays
Dark, somber tropicana field
And...its seems just like Sunday on a Saturday afternoon here.

14-3... we got our field goal! Jack Hannahan!

That's a rally in my book. Nobody out. The tying run is in the dugout!

once the score went beyond 12-2

after all, that's so unbalanced

Saturday evening away? Not so good. A's are 0-8.