Sweeney's Homerun and Stellar Bullpen Work Lead A's to Second Straight Win

Why?

Delivering WINS since 5/8/09!!

but seeing is believing!

He has had a successful career as a solid defensive player with some pop – and he replaces guys who aren’t truly second baseman and certainly aren’t hitters. If nothing else, it could offer some stability in an otherwise “patch and glue” stopgap situation. And I don’t think it reflects concern that Ellis is done, just that Ellis is out a full 4-6 weeks.

First inning and a half the ballpark was without the PA system. I have to say I loved it… it kind of fulfilled a fantasy of being at a game before there were PA systems. They fixed the PA right before the beginning of the bottom of the second, when Holliday was announced.

Bullpen outstanding, obviously, in this quality win. Too bad for Outman, but the four pitch walk to open the fifth really did him in. To his credit I saw him throw his glove on his return to the dugout. Better luck next time kid.

Kudos to the pitchers tonight, who had to really hunker down after some unacceptably sloppy infield play (I mean Crosby and Cabrera, who blew two routine plays).

That was a fun game to watch. Hope they can build on this little wave of success.

some impressions: strangely silent but not unpleasant pregame and beginning of the game with the PA system not working. Outman threw an awful lot of pitches in the first couple of innings…he was at 101 and couldn’t finish the fifth inning.

Twice Hannahan made lousy throws to get someone at second base, throwing to Crosby’s left. The second time was the error. I don’t know who got charged for the error, but it was definitely caused by Hannahan’s throw.

Seeing all those doubles in a row by the A’s was just great! Sweeney’s HR was a no doubter from the minute it left his bat. Holliday was swinging from his heels on most of his at bats. During his last out bat I suddenly felt that he was reminding me of Crosby…
I saw Ziegler getting up during the eighth inning, although he didn’t throw. I remember thinking " I hope they don’t put him in the ninth, I want Bailey to close and I don’t want to see Ziggy make a mistake to these Blue Jays…guess for me the shift to Bailey as closer has begun.

It’s pretty amazing how nearly everyone on the Blue Jays is hitting over .300. I know it’s early, but…Rolen? Millar? Barajas?

Great to see a win! I can’t wait for tomorrow’s game.

he was traded for a player to be named later. who will we send back to the rays Jim Mecir?

is kind of like getting woken up and thrown out of the bar by the waitress…I just didn’t plan on staying that long

6.0 IP, 10 hits, 8 runs, 5 ER, 2 BB, 2 K. Not sure what his tRA was, though. :-)

My L-L-W-L-L-W pattern holds, but I wouldn’t mind changing it up a bit (you know, throw a few more W’s in there for the next few games I go to).

The silent 1.5 innings at the beginning were kind of entertaining. No national anthem, though — I think there was a kids’ choir on the field before the game, so they were probably disappointed.

Speaking of kids, they were EVERYWHERE. Must’ve been Little League night or something, at least in my area. Their parents were buying them cotton candy and snowcones and churros and every other sugary thing you can think of. Fun for them.

LIVE. DOT. RACING. Enough said.

Hey, we won! Wait, what? Yes, we actually scored FIVE runs in ONE inning. Who knew that was possible?

Yay. Did I mention I like winning? Because I do. I do like it very much.

it’s nice to have a winning streak for once.

Let’s make it 3.

winning is awesome but i’m not sure josh outman is headed for cooperstown this lifetime unless he gets to upstate ny as a tourist but that aside everything is groovy baby it’s a recipe ya see a little twist of wuertz a flexible springer bending not breaking a double shot of bailey’s cream and a dash of that potent powder you get when you stay aggressive early in counts when a pitcher is showing shakiness for what might be the only time in the game makes for a spicy cocktail finally downloads a decent rip of unlocatably rare hans-joachim roedelius cd and rejoices like a childhood christmas morning oops i’m jewish make that hanukkah evening we showed more lumber in the bottom of the second than poor manny will show in the bedroom the rest of his life oh my goodness i did not just say that giggles like a little girl caught red-handed with the chainsaw and the leather mask bailey bailey bailey you are my favorite liqueur unless we sign kahlua to a minor league deal or we get midori in a trade with some japanese team fuck amaretto i am so through with him he did meth and stole my cds oh my word what has gotten into me tonight i must be literally delirious from the athletics’ reawakened game skills the last 48 hours hopefully the rest of the series doesn’t look like that reality show the first 48 hours where they try and catch murder suspects and succeed like 4.86 percent of the time that is the most depressing show in the history of the moving image ryan sweeney is so better off in the six hole watch his rbi numbers start to show signs of life eats delicious tortellini + shrimp dish cooked by roommate then incredible italian opera cakes from trader joe’s that are so like crack that i’d probably smoke them if they’d fit in the pipe ahhhhhhhhhhhhh this is so good sings tim buckley it’s a happy time inside my mind##


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9.803921569% (Wuertz outs) X 11.76470588% (Bailey outs) + 5.882352941% (coronary-inducing Springer outs) + 5.882352941% (bottom 2nd runs as % of total game innings) = 127.1049596% – 6 (weeks Ellis likely out if the rumors are true) + 1 (dubious-but-veteran journeyman fill-in) = 122.1049596 – [5.882352941% (Outman’s BBs) X 3.921568627% (2 errors)* = 23.0605075%] = 99.04445214% baseball or in other words we are getting there one game at a time#

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(1 out = 5.88235941% of 8 1/2 inning game containing 51 outs total)

*so multiplied because we got away with murder tonight and usually extra outs given to masher teams like Toronto multiply explonentially not in your favor

“He’s similar to some the players we have here. He’s very experienced, he’s a good baserunner and he’s a good fielder.”

The question GM’s may start asking is whether the player is using PED’s?

Let’s start the debate or speculation.

Do ANers think Holliday is using PED’s?

What about Cust* and Giambi*?

(* Previous link to PED’s)

I missed 90% of the game (traveling and then when I got back had to go our and support a fellow band) but was able to catch some of the game on the Sacramento feed and follow score updates on ESPN radio when I got out of range. I wish our pitchers could go 6 innings with regularity but given that we get a lot of 4 1/3 to 5 inning performances having a bullpen that can keep us in the game for 4 innings is a godsend. Nice to see Ryan hit a dinger (I’ve been hoping for 10 HR from his this year) but getting doubles with runners on base is just as good. So much better than Ks and popouts!

Now, can we get our first 3-game winning streak of the year today? Please say yes!