Like Last Night, Except With More Runs

by baseballgirl on Aug 30, 2011 7:02 PM PDT

Let's see. Add four more Indians runs, add one more A's run and you basically have last night's game. In case you missed that one, the A's dropped the game to Cleveland. And they dropped another one to Cleveland tonight. But hey, the Indians win it and thanks to the A's, are now over .500! Oh right. I keep forgetting. We are A's fans.

So what are our highlights? Well, um, Neil Wagner made his Major League debut, allowing a hit and striking one out in his inning of work? Cahill pitched into the sixth (allowing five earned runs, so that's not good)? Ryan Sweeney struck out on the only three pitches he saw; yay? Matsui, Pennington and Suzuki had two hits each (accounting for most of the A's hits), and Crisp and Suzuki each drove in a run?

To be fair, it was a 2-1 game going into the sixth inning, when Cahill surrendered a one-out walk and a 2-run homerun. He hit the next batter and was replaced by De Los Santos, who...promptly gave up a homerun. That wasn't good. That four run inning would be enough to put the game away for the Tribe.

Good thing this is a four-game series. The A's will try again tomorrow night. I promise that the game will be less boring (it can't miss).

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They play hard, they try

But the talent just isn’t there. I do like the new right side of the infield, though. That’s a start.

by rovingralph on Aug 30, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Well said.

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 9:59 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

So Cahill is 3-13 since starting 6-0

There is an A in Pathetic

by Trainman on Aug 30, 2011 7:21 PM PDT reply actions

there is an A in Cahill

by OaklandSi on Aug 30, 2011 7:38 PM PDT up reply actions

He hasn't been Chill lately

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 7:48 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

but there's no A in Chill.

My hobbies include golf, wearing polo shirts and changing my name on AN.

by BD on Aug 30, 2011 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Damn. Should have seen that coming.

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 7:51 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Yay Baseball!

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by Future Ed on Aug 30, 2011 7:42 PM PDT reply actions

Well....

My hobbies include golf, wearing polo shirts and changing my name on AN.

by BD on Aug 30, 2011 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions

Mike Trout 4 Seattle 0

2 HR’s

And we don’t have anyone to compare to this

by Trainman on Aug 30, 2011 7:59 PM PDT reply actions

Soriano 2 SF 0

BOMB to LF
What made the game better: They showed a shot from the Big Cat in 2001 that went further.

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 8:06 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Galarraga was awesome

by duballers23 on Aug 30, 2011 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions

I wish he had got that last homer for 400. 399 was against us.

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 9:00 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

He should have hit #400,

but James Joyce accidentally ruled that it wasn’t over the yellow line.

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by Nico on Aug 30, 2011 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Uh oh!

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 9:06 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Umpire totally fucked Boston tonight

Yankees get the calls in Boston.

Pitch 8 inches off outside called strikes. 3 of them in a row and a bunch earlier

by Trainman on Aug 30, 2011 8:06 PM PDT reply actions

fuck both of them.

and the Giants

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by mikev on Aug 30, 2011 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I agree with you there

I wish to add the slegnA to this to make it a quartet of excrement

by Trainman on Aug 30, 2011 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions

(tossing in Texas) Five spot!

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 9:02 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

I have nothing particular against most of the White Sox, but

A. J. Pierzynski simply must be in this company.

Anyone who hates the Coliseum can kiss my butt. -- Rick Tittle.

by Englishmajor on Aug 30, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions

I root against the WHite Sox because their announcers are so annoying

You have to be pretty bad to get me to dislike your team solely because of the broadcasters.

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Aug 31, 2011 7:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Rec'd!!!!

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by Tutu-late on Aug 31, 2011 6:42 AM PDT up reply actions

groan

ack-A

by ak_A on Aug 30, 2011 8:09 PM PDT reply actions

Not to make excuses,

but I did think the A’s an awful lot of balls hard tonight with little to no luck.

By himself, Allen hit three balls that could easily have been doubles, which could have turned an 0 for 4 into a “3 for 4, 3 doubles, 2 RBI” night. DDJ had a couple as well, Suzuki one (and I don’t know HOW Suzuki’s blast for a double stayed in the yard, by the way) — so it’s not like they didn’t do anything, it’s just that often when they did, nothing happened.

And Cahill should probably remove the “changeup belt high, on a tee” from his arsenal. And WTF is De Los Santos doing throwing a slider to Jack Hannahan? Did we not see him whiff on enough high fastballs to know where his weakness is?

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Aug 30, 2011 8:53 PM PDT reply actions

We specialized on a lot of hard hit balls with no luck in the first half (oh, that Baltimore series during the anti-streak)

I sure don’t want to see that again.

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 9:04 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Edit: Hard hit balls with no luck in the first half was our specialty.

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 9:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

True, Allen did have 3 nice at-bats and hit the ball hard

I was underwhelmed by the sheer boredom of the rest of the game.

"Oh who am I kidding? The A's and Giants could stage a pillow fight, and I'd still care who wins." -67Marquez

by baseballgirl on Aug 30, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions

To be fair, was ANYONE on the team around when Hannahan was here?

by danmerqury on Aug 30, 2011 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Suzuki may have been?

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 11:57 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Yes. They were teammates in 2007 and 2008. Geren's golden years.

by player20 on Aug 31, 2011 12:06 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions

I think Suzuki is a bad game caller

All the more reason to attempt to get rid of him.

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by cuppingmaster on Aug 31, 2011 7:14 AM PDT up reply actions

LOL, I like the word attempt

He could get rid of him I am sure but what return is the question?

by Trainman on Aug 31, 2011 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions

This is Cahill's first winless month since his rookie season in 2009

Or April last year if you count the one start made on April 30. I don’t, because it wasn’t even half a month of pitching. The April of 2009 at least had four starts to it.

Last of the Ninth - Photography

by Flashfire on Aug 30, 2011 9:06 PM PDT reply actions

is it possible....

That Suzuki has been making some bad pitch calls? Why do these pitchers all seem to do better when Powell is in there?

by richwol1 on Aug 30, 2011 9:59 PM PDT reply actions

Someone was mentioning Hannahan being terrible with fastballs, so why call for an offspeed pitch?

Last of the Ninth - Photography

by Flashfire on Aug 31, 2011 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions

Well, this team is unwatchable.

"BA doesn't stand for Batting Average. It’s Brandon Allen, as in the percentage of a hitter’s worth compared to Brandon Allen. Ted Williams, at his best, was only 4/10th of the hitter Brandon Allen is today." - YonYonson

by hero66 on Aug 30, 2011 10:12 PM PDT reply actions

I agree. Radio only.

by player20 on Aug 30, 2011 10:28 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

I sell my car, get a new road bike, ride into classes and check out AN for the first time in about a week (I'm sorry) and this is what I get?

Why the hell isn’t it 2012 yet?

This. Team.

by Boonee on Aug 30, 2011 10:43 PM PDT reply actions

I'm missing those early-season Cahill debates

You know the ones?

They started with Cahill pitching really well, and getting a bunch of strikeouts.

The discussion continued with somebody poking a sharp stick at “statheads” by saying they’d been proven wrong and writing something snarky about basements or something.

The “statheads” responded by saying all those Ks actually proved them right, and getting annoyed with the anti-stat person for being nasty and stupid.

Those meta-discussions bugged me at the time, but now Cahill just isn’t a good pitcher, and where’s the fun in that? He’s young, so there is that.

Meh.

by bear88 on Aug 30, 2011 11:54 PM PDT reply actions

arguing over Cahill being good is more fun than sulking because he sucks, it's true

by DDroney on Aug 31, 2011 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions

I guess it's easier to agree on why someone is bad

than it is to agree on why they’re good.

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Aug 31, 2011 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions