Playoff Recap - Day 2

by 67MARQUEZ on Oct 8, 2009 10:21 PM PDT

A couple of one-run games in the National League (Colorado 5, Philadelphia 4; Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2), and John Lackey shuts down the Red Sox in their series opener (5-0) with a little help from his friends.

Tomorrow the Senior Circuit takes the day off, while the AL has a pair of Game Two's on tap:

Minnesota @ New York, 3:07 PST

Boston @ Anaheim, 6:37 PST

G' night, everyone.

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wow i'm the first to post, just gome home

full of zinfandel, who won?
go A’s!

by OakA'sHoney on Oct 8, 2009 10:27 PM PDT reply actions

results added above

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Oct 8, 2009 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions

hi

They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick

by mikev on Oct 8, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions

At least one game was moderately exciting

Still wasn’t well played.

Can we just watch tuesday’s game again?

by Future Ed on Oct 8, 2009 11:45 PM PDT reply actions

The Matt Holliday error

gave me some serious lulz.

istillhateyoumatthollidayandamlaughingatyourfailure

by cityplANner on Oct 9, 2009 1:03 AM PDT reply actions

lol...No soup for you!

Take it easy my friend!!!

"What a joke." ~ Booby Crosby

by MMunoz33 on Oct 9, 2009 7:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Seconded.

Some motherfcukers are always trying to ice skate uphill - Blade.

by OldhamA on Oct 9, 2009 7:26 AM PDT up reply actions

I loved Adam Wainright's quote after the game:

“That ball got lost in 50,000 white towels shaking in front of Matt’s face,” Wainwright said. “It doesn’t really seem fair that an opposing team should be able to allow their fans to shake white towels when there’s a white baseball flying through the air. How about Dodger Blue towels?”

That rug really tied the room together...

by Streams Of Whiskey on Oct 9, 2009 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions

Awesome.

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" ~ Mae West

by Blicks on Oct 9, 2009 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions

Jason Werth said he lost Tulowitski's ball that went for a triple

with two outs in the 9th in Game 1 exactly the same way.

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on Oct 9, 2009 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions

Way to tell the fans that they're having an impact

Expect towels the rest of the way out!

"Bobby Crosby at third is a bit of an adventure. And not like, here’s some hidden treasure, what fun. More like, gah! poison ants!" --alea iacta est

by baseballgirl on Oct 9, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Expect a huge white tarp to be unveiled behind home plate for the

home at bats.

Some motherfcukers are always trying to ice skate uphill - Blade.

by OldhamA on Oct 9, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions

It's called home field advantage Adam

stop complaining.

You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}

by micdog2001 on Oct 9, 2009 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions

Meh

It’s not okay for home-team fans to flash sunlight into the opposing team’s hitters’ eyes with mirrors. Teams should just agree to pass out towels that are blue or red or whatever.

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on Oct 9, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Remember how the A's would tarp off one section of the cf bleachers

so as not to distract the batters?

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Oct 9, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, and every stadium has to do that now

No more sitting in CF in Fenway, for instance.

That’s also a safety thing — you don’t want someone getting beaned because they couldn’t see the pitch.

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on Oct 9, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions

there'll be no excuse if they lose game 3 at home.

by likeiwouldtellyou on Oct 9, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

so, i've got some wee-hour perplexion going on about what's quite a moot point now...

if twins/yankees had the day off thurs, why couldn’t they have played game 1 thurs instead of weds, when the twins clearly needed a day of rest? it couldn’t have been because of TV scheduling, because angels/sux could have played weds and taken thurs off to fill the prime-time slot. and it couldn’t have been because they didn’t know what the team match-ups would be since the tigers-twins winner had to face the yankees no matter what. and it couldn’t have been because baseball plays every day, since this is the post, and teams do get a chance to align their rotations. yeah. i don’t get it. guess i’ll stay up and think about it a bit more.

don't care if i ever get back.

by AV on Oct 9, 2009 1:17 AM PDT reply actions

Bud Selig was on the grassy knoll

by cityplANner on Oct 9, 2009 1:46 AM PDT up reply actions

so the ex-A's were

Holliday – major fail
Blanton – fail
Street – money

that about right?

Oh, but if I catch a line drive by a girl, that’s girl-on-girl action, the twiceness is eliminated, and it just counts once - gigglingone

by closetasfan on Oct 9, 2009 6:46 AM PDT reply actions

Street tried to fail

or the stuff he threw had fail written all over it.

I would call that save of his last night LUCKY not money but he somehow got the job done.

by Trainman on Oct 9, 2009 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions

Nah, I think he was better than you're making out

He got the last out with a pretty good pitch, his fast ball had good life on it, and he was fidgeting less than normal

by bobnothing on Oct 9, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions

Although he would've had to face Utley and Howard with loaded bases

had he not gotten that out.

He definitely tried to fail, although he ended up money.

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" ~ Mae West

by Blicks on Oct 9, 2009 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions

As much as I don’t want the dodgers to advance, that error of Hilliday’s gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.

On Blanton, it’s pretty hard to forget how well he pitched in the World Series last year, hit a flippin’ home run, too! Go Joe!

Street seemed to struggle a bit when he came in yesterday. I seriously thought he was going to blow the save. I think he got VERY lucky to get out of that one with the save in tact.

"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it
turns out that it was the other way around all the time." ~~~ Jim Bouton

by Sweet Spot on Oct 9, 2009 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Hilliday = Holliday = big sissy baby

"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it
turns out that it was the other way around all the time." ~~~ Jim Bouton

by Sweet Spot on Oct 9, 2009 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions

Andre Ethier - Solo HR

You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}

by micdog2001 on Oct 9, 2009 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Matt Stairs- pinch walk

"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard

by Gaijin_Suketto on Oct 9, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions

ex-A's

CarGon has been money too.

by Santa Cruz Surfer on Oct 9, 2009 8:12 AM PDT reply actions

except that play at the wall when he ended up on the warning track.

don't care if i ever get back.

by AV on Oct 9, 2009 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions

Not sure if this has been posted...

and we haven’t had a DLD in forever.

Scott Hatteberg had a better year than A-Rod.

“A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez” by Selena Roberts – 21,000 copies sold

“Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis – 24,000 copies sold

Day seized!

by JLaff on Oct 9, 2009 9:30 AM PDT reply actions