World Series Game 3: Cardinals at Rangers
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Oct 22, 2011 
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With the World Series even at a game apiece, the Rangers take the home field advantage tonight in Arlington. The Rangers are starting their second of three left-handed starters — believed to be an advantage for Texas this series — while the Cardinals are going with veteran Kyle Lohse, who’s never won a postseason game and has never pitched in the World Series.
• Amazing story out of St. Louis: The Cardinals postseason run generated enough revenue that the city of St. Louis cancelled plans to force city employees to take an unpaid furlough this year.
• Thursday’s Game 2 drew 5 percent more television viewers than last year’s Game 2. It was the first time in four years that Game 2 rated higher than Game 1.
• Game 2 was also the 12th one-run game of this postseason, tying the record set in 1995 and matched in 1997 and 2003.
• Country music singer Ronnie Dunn — the the Dunn part of Brooks and Dunn — will sing the National Anthem before the game.
CARDINALS
Rafael Furcal SS
Allen Craig RF
Albert Pujols 1B
Matt Holliday LF
Lance Berkman DH
David Freese 3B
Yadier Molina C
Jon Jay C
Ryan Theriot 2B
Kyle Lohse RHP
RANGERS
Ian Kinsler 2B
Elvis Andrus SS
Josh Hamilton CF
Michael Young DH
Adrian Beltre 3B
Nelson Cruz RF
Mike Napoli 1B
David Murphy LF
Yorvit Torrealba C
Matt Harrison LHP
Associated Press photo
Granted this is 2 years old and Darvish is 22, but still looks pretty solid, good athleticism, finishes well, great assortment of pitches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGB69siot8
November 19, 2006
Madden: Yanks Not High On Kei Igawa
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Next week, the No. 2 regarded Japanese pitcher, soft-throwing Hanshin Tigers lefty Kei Igawa, who was 14-9 and tied for the Central League in strikeouts last year, goes up for posting, and while the Yankees are expected to make a bid, they regard him as a back-of-the-rotation starter. In other words, they wouldn’t mind having him in the spring training mix, but aren’t going to go overboard for him.
Go Cards!
Buck must not realize how dumb he sounds when he keeps referring to Young as the ultimate team player. The same Young who was crying about how he wanted to be traded.
Buck is impossible to listen too. Rather just hear the crowd noise as audio throughout the entire game.
Best National Anthem of the year, Ronnie Dunn.
Robinson Cano, you are not.
Yankeefem,
Everybody must be watching football, I guess.
Drive-by to say
To say what, trish?
c’mon trisha don’t keep us hanging
Tom, what’s their excuse? I am ambidextrous: I’m watching college hockey, NHL hockey and the WS all at the same time.
But although I am rooting for the Cards, or rather against Texas, have to say, I don’t have my heart in it.
Hi trisha!
GO CARDS!
Lots of family in for the weekend – one-year mass for my brother.
It’s been an emotional weekend but also comforting in a strange way because there is just so much family love and unity.
I’m extremely blessed in that way.
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GO CARDS!
And the traditonal 2004 comment comes early from a**hole Buck tonight. Hopefully that means where done with that for the evening. However still 6+ innings for him to get that jab in there again yet tonight.
Maybe trisha is channeling Big Papi but his message isn’t quite clear yet.
Sorry guys. I swear that the keyboard in my new laptop is the most sensitive I’ve ever dealt with! It posts when it wants to, as opposed to when I want it to!
And I meant to indicate that it was a driveby to say Go Cards but I couldn’t hang around because it was a family weekend.
So it ended up being bifurcated because of my stupid keyboard!
yankeefem,
I’m too old for that kind of multi-tasking. When the Series is over, I may pay attention to other sports. These guys got to the WS, we didn’t. Good baseball so far, and I’m laying in enough to keep me going over the winter.
trisha, sorry. warm wishes to you and your family
Time for the cards to extend the lead
trisha,
Sorry, though those occasions can be a balm.
Tell you something strange and I don’t know if anyone else who has played fantasy baseball has had this reaction but Michael Young and Alexi Ogando were two of my fantasy players. As much as I am rooting against the Rangers it feels weird when they are playing because I automatically have a rooting interest in them! I didn’t have any Cards this year – well none that I kept for the entire season.
Guys thanks. I didn’t want to turn this into a “pity me” session. I think if the keyboard hadn’t posted early, the post would have been more cohesive and less singularly focused.
So thanks.
I had Matt Harrison too but dumped him when he had a few bad games in a row.
trisha, thoughts and prayers. <3.
YF – all I can say is that at least around here, the 2011 Collapse is the gift that just keeps on giving.
trisha, I do need to get myself up to Rhody soon to enjoy the extra perks.
Another awful call, but hard to see from the ump’s position. Hope he doesnt score.
YF, thank you, truly.
My sister-in-law said that she was sitting thinking about my brother and out of nowhere the light flickered on and off. I also had an extremely strange thing happen right
trisha, same here about rooting for fantasy players, but for me it was moreso with my redraft players from a few years ago. I still root for every single one of them. Especially my pitchers.
YOU KNOW – maybe that was my brother and not the keyboard! Anyway I had an extremely strange thing happen right after we had services for him last year. And it was something that was so impossible to have happened that there was only one explanation that made sense to me.
So there is definitely comfort in that for me. No question.
GO CARDS!!!
Hey my brother lived in Houston. Maybe he’s rooting against the Rangers?
Harrison deserved better than this.
Is this the same Texas infield that looked so amazing a few days ago?
Moral of the story – it happens.
As bad as it could be. I’m rooting for the Cards, but not this way.
And what started this horror? The bad call by the ump.
CC deserved better in Game 4, also.
trisha,
My sister-in-law said that she was sitting thinking about my brother and out of nowhere the light flickered on and off. I also had an extremely strange thing happen right
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I think Harrison pitched a 3rd out already. The guy must be shell shocked.
trisha, I have similar things happen all the time when I think of my father. From quarters appearing out of nowhere (a little inside joke) to lights turning on to even a rainbow appearing over my house on his birthday. Oddly, I especially feel in touch with him whenever I am near the ocean up in Newport.
Trisha,
I would bet your brother is pulling against the Rangers. I certainly am.
I want the cards to win, but I feel bad for Harrison. If that call on 1st was accurate & the defense didn’t kill him, I think he gets out of the inning giving up no runs. But instead he gave up 4.
Not one run should have scored that inning, except for the bad call at first.
I feel bad for Harrison, but… Go Cards!
Harrison got screwed. When you see something like that happen to another team, you have full perspective and can feel for the pitcher.
However, were that a Yankee pitcher, all we would be hearing on lohud is how the pitcher should have been able to get the job done despite the errors (ump and catcher).
Just unfair.
trisha, exactly re: if it were the Yanks no one would care, as they didn’t with C.
How I wish in this new age that somebody would say, “The Cardinals scored 4 runs, none of them earned, on __hits. Cardinals, 5-0.”
cards need to hold it down. Don’t unravel now
Texas just got one back. And perhaps more to come.
If the umps won’t help Texas, they’ll have to help themselves, which they are capable of doing. They got back the runs given to the Cards, less one, so the game starts over.
My computer just decided to shut down, seemingly out of nowhere…
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My brother absolutely hated air conditioning. When we flew down to Houston last year for his services (we had services here also) it was hideously hot. When we got to my brother’s house they informed us that the power had gone down and so the air conditioning was not working.
The odd thing? Theirs was the only house in the neighborhood that lost power.
change the pitcher.
A DP would be nice.
tom, I figured that Cards’ lead wasn’t necessarily safe.
I figured Jaime Garcia would speak broken English. He spoke perfect English. I figured Elvis Andrus would speak perfect English. He spoke broken English.
Just goes to show that because someone’s first name is pronounced Hi-Me, despite looking like it should be pronounded Ja-mey, it doesn’t mean they won’t speak perfect English.
Okay, would Joe Girardi have removed his starter at the bottom of the 4th in the 3rd game of a best of 7 series, especially if the Yanks had the lead?
My guess is absolutely not.
Do I think it was the right move?
Absolutely so.
I have to say this WS is more exciting than I thought it would be.
It’s also nice to be able to watch without really giving the kind of crap that you do when your team is in it – though my preference of course would be for my team to be in it.
cannot Believe Rangers came right back. You gotta get this pitcher outta there
Now that my two hockey games are over, I can dedicate my viewing to baseball.
Out at the plate, YES!
Great throw! Phew!
YAY!
I thought that was iffy especially with Napoli running.
Oh well.
whoohoo nice play Holliday
trisha,
Loshse had a meltdown. Dude couldn’t get an out. He had to go. My guess is girardi might have put in Hughes at this point since the series is tied.
But I have faith that our pitchers would’ve hung tight & not had such a collapse
yankeefem,
This is the World Series. Texas isn’t going to fold, and neither are the Cards. Pedal to the metal, seven games, Great series so far. I thought it would be tied by now.
I think the NY Rangers play tonight.
Yep, @ Oilers
So I guess I’ll be switching back & forth too
Lock – of course you’re right. These are the Yankees we’re talking about!
The missed play by Culpa accounted for 1 run. Napoli’s bad throw cost 2 runs. Harrison allowed a bit of damage himself.
Who keeps yelling. Kind of annoying
tom, I don’t disagree. However, I was thinking more along the lines of who was pitching plus Texas has a big a** lineup, especially hitting in this park.
6-3!
A real Molina does damage.
Woot! A catcher who actually gets a hit.
heh. The sniffer probably isn’t doing much chicken dancing right now.
Cards offense looking good, but I think the Yankees would have been able to handle Texas pitching pretty well.
It really is a shame that the Yankees got beat by an inferior team like the Tiggers.
Yogi, QFT. We would have licked our lips and raked and raked some more, facing all those Texas lefty SP’s.
Early morning tomorrow, going to listen on the radio in bed. Bad breaks plus bad playing for the Rangers tonight so far, but don’t count them out. Looks like a four hour+ game tonight. May the better team win, but I won’t know who that is until tomorrow. Night, all.
‘Good night, tom!
Night tom.
This suddenly is looking like little league tit-for-tat baseball to me.
I’m more a fan of tough pitching and good offense breaking through, not a free for all just because.
Cards pitching is sad….sheesh only so often your team gonna keep scoring, you keep giving up runs
Pitching is nowhere to be found
trisha, me too. I prefer a stingily pitched, low scoring nail-biter…
That was Molina’s first hit for the series…….I think he’s hitting .110 or there about
“trisha, me too. I prefer a stingily pitched, low scoring nail-biter…”
YF, my total cup of tea. To me, that’s championship baseball. That makes me sit up and take notice, not this steroid-induced carousel of hitters.
Now imagine this kind of pliss-poor pitching and a blind umpire behind home plate!
Talk about an unending horror show!
Like them leaving the bases loaded though.
Pat, regular season, he batted over .300 with @ .350 OBP and .800ish OPS. He’s a career .291 hitter.
A good curve ball to any of the previous 2 batters could have gotten him out of the inning.
Ultimately, the kid–Lynn–did a pretty good job getting out of that. He has some nasty bad splits vs. lefties though.
Ogando in.
Pat, what’s the Jets-SD spread?
I want to see Alexi do well. I want the Cards to win. Both can work.
trish, Ogando one of your fantasy pitchers?
YF – yes.
And he was absolutely tremendous. They used him for too many innings as a starter so they shut him down toward the end of the season. But his stuff is filthy.
Sorry trish, I’m hoping for a homer here.
wow…some good pitching tonight huh
If the Cards piss this game away they will be done. Game, set, match.
That slider was pretty nasty.
Molina has a messed up thumb he’s playing through
So, pitching is the end all of end alls in the post season, yet we have two teams playing in the WS that have some pretty weak pitching.
Dogs and cats living together, and the mantra of the last umteen years about pitching is all upside down.
Come on Cards just suck less than the Rangers and win this thing.
blake, that about sums it up.
YF – when he’s on, he’s virtually unhittable.
GO ALEXI!!!
I’m nothing if not loyal!
That was coming all night
PUJOLS
Albert finally got a little lift on one….what a beast
Yay! High friggin FB. Uncle Albert!
I don’t think any of the pitchers want to step on the mound tonight.
‘And he was absolutely tremendous’
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I also had him great first half, faded in the second as his IP got higher
“PUJOLS
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I want one
That’s the other thing. I’m multitasking so not paying total attention to the home plate ump.
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Poor Alexi. Maybe he’s not ready for the big stage. Thankfully the Cards were already leading because he would have given up three straight games.
The other thing is maybe he’s playing with a tired arm. Who knows.
I bet Nolan Ryan loved that blast.
I like how The Donut Choker really knows his baseball. Way to call it, Mrs. Jones.
PeteAbe Pete Abraham
Like what Washington is doing. Use Ogando to slow down the Cardinals, hope your offense keeps hitting
Does Alexi actually even have a third pitch?
GM, the kiss of death.
Albert the roider.
Vineyard, yeah he really started to struggle and they thought it had to do with IP. But they kind of had no choice since so many of their starters were down or went down. Ogando went from the pen to the starting rotation and stayed there – plus he looked so amazing there was no way they were putting him back in the pen.
yankeefeministra…….I have the Jets + 2…….I know Molina is a good stick, I was just pointing out that his bat had been silent like many have been so far this series…..
GB, that should have read.
GB…..Was your pal Pete even around when they were The Senators ??? Chump that he is….
I’d like to see Nolan vs Pujols in their primes
Basically fastball, slider.
.”I know Molina is a good stick, I was just pointing out that his bat had been silent like many have been so far this series”
he’s playing with a pretty badly jammed thumb I believe
Pat, if he was, it was barely. Hard to believe that was almost 40 years ago.
Pujols hits righties
That reminded me of that ball he hit off Lidge in Houston a few years ago…..that one just landed a couple of days ago.
I hope I’m wrong about this but it looks like Washington overused Ogando the way Torre overused Brujo. Brujo never recovered from being thrown into the starting rotation (against his will, by the way). I don’t doubt that Ogando was tickled to be a starter but Washington really pushed his innings.
I feel sad for him – purely because he was mine.
I womder how many people know that Ted Williams was the Rangers first manager back in ’72?
trisha, no doubt, Ogando had @100 innings jump from 2010.
Gonzalez is the next lamb to the slaughter
An imagine etched in my mind forever was the way BH Kim just collapsed on the mound the second night that the Yankees hit the winning homer off him in the world series. He looked so small and vulnerable that I just sat and cried. I was struck though by the way all of the Dbacks went out to the mound and supported him. It was a very poignant moment.
GB……..Now I feel old ……
Once Ogando gets a third pitch and builds up his innings some more he will be really tough, if the Rangers stick with him as a SP that is.
YF, a heck of a jump. But I guess they were in a situation similar to the one the Yanks were in, in 2008 in that they had a bunch of starters injured and also needed to replace Cliff Lee. I think that was really the push that got Ogando from the pen to the rotation.
I have a feeling they will definitely stick with him as an SP, though it couldn’t hurt to have him in the pen.
They have Feldman, Harrison, Holland, Lewis and Wilson. With Wilson leaving, unless they have someone in AAA ready to come up, Ogando would be the obvious, I would think.
I think they need a humidor in Texas
not having Hamilton at 100% is hurting Texas
“I think they need a humidor in Texas”
Either that or fewer players on the juice!
And that’s the beauty and mystery of baseball.
There are no written guarantees that your go-to guy in the regular season is going to come up big. And it doesn’t have to mean that the guy is a post-season choker. It can be as easy as a cold spell at the wrong time.
Men, not machines.
Well, trisha, it’s no surprise; isn’t Ryan the crusader against pitch counts and coddling young pitchers? Looks like Ogando only threw a change 4% of the time too, so he was starting with essentially two pitches.
Pat M. October 22nd, 2011 at 10:59 pm
GB……..Now I feel old ……
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The last game that I ever saw Mantle play in person was in ’74 in an Old Timer’s game in Arlington. Martin played in a Yankee uniform and managed the scheduled game in a Rangers uniform.
trisha, Brujo was a heckuva pitcher.
GB, my bro saw Mantle in the ’73 OTD at OYS hit a homer off a grooved pitch by Whitey Ford.
Guess they don’t know the Yankees did better against LHs this season….
These two just make me shake my head the entire game. (Buck & McC)
GB….I remember seeing big Ted Williams walking from the team bus one spring from the b field
haha….why are they pitching to him?
lol why even bother pitching to the guy. Unreal.
Uncle Albert revisited. Texas’d!
what kind of numbers would Albert put up in that park?
blake October 22nd, 2011 at 11:04 pm
not having Hamilton at 100% is hurting Texas
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Same with A-Rod for the yankees.
Maybe the media would like to discuss the error in game 2 with Pujols after the game ?
what did Bucky boy say about getting left hand pitchers for yanks & redsox. Who did this? Texas?
who the hell is “brujo” ???
86, Ramiro Mendoza.
Pujols hits both lefties & righties
Pujols career splits.
vs RHP: .325/.415/.607/1.021
vs LHP: .338/.437/.648/1.085
if this was Cowboys/Rams then Buck might be interested
If the NYY would consider spending a dump truck load of dough for Darvish, why not change direction a invest that money in Pujols instead.
Pat M. October 22nd, 2011 at 11:13 pm
GB….I remember seeing big Ted Williams walking from the team bus one spring from the b field
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Williams was a lot bigger than people thought he was. The first time I ever saw or heard of Ted williams and Bob Feller was when I was 7 years old and they were at a Christmas program and speaking to and American Legion group and my dad and grandfather took me to meet them. They probably talked for about 40 minutes each about everything from baseball to war experiences to America. I wish that I had known more about them before that day and appreciated all that they had done.
typo: and invest that money………….
Looks like Pujols found the juice in the kitchen after game 2.
How does Ramiro Mendoza become “Brujo”???
And it’s not like he’s at the top of the list of reliever who Torre destroyed — Gordon, Proctor, Quantrill, Sturtze….. need I go on?
There’s no place for Pujols to play as we have a 1b & Montero is the DH/BUC and Jeter/A-rod need DH days too
blake, just called up Pujol’s splits as well. Ridiculous.
YF,
one of the best hitters ever…
YF – looks like Ryan is having it come back to bite him in the ass. Good.
Brujo was amazing. Torre ruined him too and ruined the most seamless transition from sure middle relief to either Nelson or Stanton, and then to Mo. It was an untouchable combination and the entire league feared it. But the ruiner of arms knew best and essentially finished Brujo’s career when he insisted on sticking him in the starting rotation despite Brujo saying he didn’t feel comfortable there. He got an elbow injury from which he never recovered.
Once he started that dominoe in motion, he made sure to further emasculate the Yankee bullpen by getting rid of one of the surest bets the Yankees had, Jeff Nelson, when Nelson had the AUDACITY to complain about relief pitchers not going to the All Star Game. Torre had him jettisoned as soon as his contract was up.
Nothing like cutting off your bulbous nose to spite your hideous face.
The more I think about the bullspit Torre pulled and how he ruined the careers of his favorites and not-so-favorites, the more I despise him.
Discussion on tomorrow’s football schedule as Buck’s heart skipped a beat
Brujo means witch, I believe, and they used to say that Mendoza was like a witch doctor when he pitched. I’m pretty sure I heard that’s where the nickname came from.
Throwing that rubber ball out onto the field is cheap.
classy texas fans as usual.
Just thinking about how the Cards could be going for a 3-0 series lead right now….they were very close to it
Whoever threw that ball should be tossed from the game and not allowed to go back into the stadium.
Classy move by a TexAss fan.
El Brujo was indeed the witch doctor, changing speeds and working his magic.
I don’t remember Mendoza ever being called Brujo.
He was always called Brujo!
Probably the same Texas fans that came into our Stadium and acted like bush league a**es. Makes it even easier to root gainst them.
What an idiot. They should plaster his face all over the place, but the TexAss fans would probably think him a hero.
Joe Torre, with his stupid ass playing favorites and his vengeful nature when he felt someone crossed him (was there a book in his future???) singlehandedly destroyed the Yankees.
Bas*ard.
trisha – true pinstriped blue October 22nd, 2011 at 11:28 pm
He was always called Brujo!
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Yep.
jacksquat – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro_Mendoza
yankeefeminista October 22nd, 2011 at 11:13 pm
GB, my bro saw Mantle in the ’73 OTD at OYS hit a homer off a grooved pitch by Whitey Ford.
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CBS used to do broadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays back in the early 60s with Dizzy Dean and PeeWee Reese and almost always showed the yankees (well before CBS bought them) and they would show the OTD games when the stars came out. DiMaggio hit a homer into deep left and then in the regular game, Mnatle, Maris and Berra smoked one. Mantle’s went into the upper deck in left about 20 to the left of the bullpen area. If it was over to the right, it may have cleared the bullpen. I got to see Mantle live a lot in Detroit and Chicago and only once have I ever seen a ball hit harder…in Detroit when he cleared the right center field roof and across the street. Saw him clear the left field roof in old Commisky Park in Chicago. Never saw anyone that hit the ball harder, farther and more consistantly than Mantle. Dick Allen, Frank Howard and Harmon Killebrew came close.
Ok, two people remember “Brujo”, anyone else? Was it a “local” thing, like on one message board?
trisha – true pinstriped blue October 22nd, 2011 at 11:31 pm
jacksquat – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro_Mendoza
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Did you write that page?
Pat, belated thanks for line on the Jets. Should be a tough game.
Pujols flashing the glove.
Lock, know who scored for the Oilers?
When was Sturtz ever some quality bullpenner? He was abused in Tampa long before he came to NY and Quantrill was beat up and old from years of abuse in Toronto and LA.
Teix really needs to work on his swing from the left side. He can’t come into the year having not changed it & struggling, because it could get really brutal watching him.
Ryan N
Jacksquat, Guess again:
“Mendoza, 25, a righthander from Panama, goes by the nickname “Brujo,” which is Spanish for “witch doctor.” There doesn’t seem to be an explanation for this, and there is nothing about Mendoza’s nature to suggest a reason. Mendoza speaks very little English, and says little in Spanish.
`He was called that all through the minor leagues, but I don’t know why,’ catcher Jorge Posada said.”
http://articles.courant.com/19.....ins-sinker
If it wasn’t for Lundqvist, the game would be ugly.
Lock, Teix is at least aware of and committed to reworking his lefty swing mechanics. & he was trying to go opposite field in playoffs. Hopefully, he makes progress in the off season. Swish from the left side is another story altogether…
Ok, well I don’t remember it. It’s possible I forgot, or it wasn’t said/written much.
A lot better than Ramiry or Mendy…
yankeefeminista,
I noticed Teix getting a hit to left. That’s a good sign, I agree. I really hope he can get it done. We really need him.
Swisher just seems unclutch to me, always trying to hit a 5 run homer. I like him, but I’m ready to bring in Kemp. I wonder if a trade & extension for Kemp is possible.
LockDown October 22nd, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Dump some deadwood and make room. He is an elite talent.
jack, El Brujo is much cooler than the -y nicknames.
Lock, Swish just loses his plate discipline in the playoffs and goes all long swing and too damn aggressive. He always chases pitches out of the zone instead of staying within himself. Kemp in 2012.
YF – thanks for the assist. I decided to finally get out of my church clothes and settle in for the night!
jacksquat –
Wish I had written that page! And I agree, much better than Ramiery or Mendy!!!
*2013* that is… With Mason Williams et al to follow thereafter in CF and LF.
i was watching the absolute crazy ending of the MSU Wisc game.
Can anyone give me a quick recap of what happened with this fan throwing a ball on the field during live play? thanks.
UnKnown October 22nd, 2011 at 11:55 pm
i was watching the absolute crazy ending of the MSU Wisc game.
Can anyone give me a quick recap of what happened with this fan throwing a ball on the field during live play? thanks.
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It was scored an error because he missed the cutoff man.
Albert going for the hattrick.
Kind of dreaming of Bryce Harper too
Oh My Gosh.
GB – Torre let Quantrill grow roots on the bench! He had a 1.75 ERA the year before he came to the Yanks, likely a reason the Yankees acquired him. Instead of giving him regular work, Torre instead went to his favorites – Proctor and Sturtze namely – and then would bring Quantrill in for mopup work. Because he refused to use him regularly, when he did get into games, he would be rusty – and Torre would use him even less in important situations. It was like a dog chasing its tail. Quantrill was very bitter about it.
One thing nobody was ever confused about when it came to Torre was that he would ignore relievers who weren’t his favorites and overuse pitchers who were his favorites. And then when his favorites would show signs of wear, he’d jettison them and pretend they didn’t exist (see Bruney, Brian).
Reg-gie!
Forget Darvish, Wilson, Danks, etc. get this guy in pinstripes this winter.
Imagine him Cano and Montero in the lineup for the next decade?
Potter making it 2-0
m……looking for the upset tonight with New Mexico State vs. your Hawai Rainbows……50.00 investment can turn into 600.00 with the upset…..Tricia the good Catholic Girl….
They keep mentioning jackson hitting 3 homers in a WS game and ignoring the fact that Ruth doing it 2 times
Hopefully Pujols stays in St louis. I don’t want to face him in the american league, especially the AL east or the rangers.
Show of hands. How many are convinced that Pujols juices?
How many thinks it’s a real strong possibility but still entertain doubts?
How many don’t believe it at all?
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I am convinced.
Lock, Harry Potter?
I would like to see some of our homegrown OF’ers in there in a few years. Too bad they are all in short season and A. But such a wealth of talent; hope to see it evolve as Mason and co. rise in the system.
And that Reggie did it on 3 pitches.
How can Quantrill never pitch regularly and be considered overworked? Makes no difference. hell, it was 7 years ago and both are long gone. It’s the fact that of all pitchers, people keep bringing up Sturtze.
Jackson did it on 3 swings….not 3 pitches. He had a walk in there.
Corey Potter not Harry
GB, he didn’t use him on a regular basis, as in every 2 or 3 days, but then he would let him stay in games for multiple mop-up innings.
er, 3 first pitches.
Lock, just kidding. But Harry is probably a better player than Corey and would fit in better with the Oilers magical forwards.
Did that qualify as an embarrassment for the Rangers?
This series will never get to 7 games.
The Cards would be ridiculous to let Pujols go anywhere, especially if, I mean when they win the World Series.
Oh look, Pujols is talking now.
Well, night all. Couldn’t ask for nicer company.
GO CARDS!!!
Pujols talking tonight. I guess they didn’t lose huh?
We in my section in OYS called Quantrill “BP” for batting practice, and would scream “Nooooo! No!” and die a little bit inside every time he came into a game.
Yay, Cards!
Pujols got a little bit of an attitude. he said something like “…now what are they gonna say”… meaning the media.
YF – let a reliever grow roots and then bring him into a game, likely he’s going to be rusty and get hit. Baseball 101.
I really felt bad for Quantrill that season. Talk about a waste of a great arm.
‘Night, Trisha. I am out as well. Have to get up dead early to go to the Jets game tomorrow. ‘Night, Yankee people.
I think it would be pretty funny if no media members tried to have talked to Albert. Serve him right. But when you hit 3 bombs that is tough to do.
Final thought for the night (total reiteration of something others have so sagely pointed out)
The winner of the World Series is not necessarily the best team in baseball. It’s oftentimes merely the team that is playing the best baseball at that point in time.
That said, continue to GO CARDS!!!
Actually GB, I think it was 3 consecutive pitches for Reggie in ’77. He walked in the 2nd inning, then hit home runs on first pitches in 3 consecutive plate appearances in the 4th, 5th and 8th.
http://www.baseball-reference......0180.shtml
Jacksquat….I was at Game 5 in LA when Reggie drilled a meaningless rope into the right field seats….Then he took 3 more swings in Game 6 and hit the historic 3 dingers, but in actuality in his last 4 swings in the 77 WS he went yard on all four cuts…….I’m certain most knew that ….I was also sitting those same seats in the 81 Series when he lost a pop fly that hit his chest and turned the game and series around for the Dodgers…..Yanks had so many injuries and of course Dave Winfield had a very bad go of things which George stuck him with the Mr. May label …Unfair of course
I only have vague memories of the 77 series, I was only 9.
I remember the Bucky Dent game in 78 vividly though.
Jacksquat…Well that’s a good way to start your Yankee career……I remember the Maz homer in 1960 but the 61 season is when I really watched and started to unnderstand the game….
I was wrong on the Jacksom homers. I knew there were 4 straight homers, but, knew that there was a walk in there…4 pitch walk in his first at nat.
GB……I haven’t doubted you for the past 4 years or so….
Only my ability to type and spell, huh, Pat?
GB…..Well I share those skills with you….Four and a half years I spent going to College and never typed a paper once……Always had a young lady who was more than happy to perform that task for me…..Later inn life a Admin proofread and tickled the key boards for me…..Now that I’m left on my own , it’s you and me old buddy…….
LMAO. I do get a lot of help from “Killer”. Just gotta keep him away from the beer.
How did the golfing go, today?
Golfing is not a part of my life right now due to phjysical restrictions…….I just hang out there and suck down a few cold ones and assist in keeping score of the women golfers attire…….Had a few 9.5 today but mostly 9.0′s……Good night GB7
Have a great night, Pat. Hope you can get back on the links soon. Then beat Randy bloody.
Another good point that several people have made, but which I first saw from Sweeny: The team that wanted Cliff Lee is out of the playoffs (the Yankees), the team that got Cliff Lee is out of the playoffs (the Phillies) and the team that lost Cliff Lee is heading home to try to take control of the World Series (the Rangers).
Baseball. You really can’t predict it.
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I guess I just access it this way, would the Yanks having had Cliff Lee in their rotation for the regular season and the playoffs have been a better team pitching wise then the rotation we had, my opinion yes. These Apples and Oranges comparisons are just that.
Pujols hitting HRs in garbage time. What a stat padder!
(someone had to say it)
Theo’s Thank You ad in the Globe.
http://www.boston.com/sports/b....._th_1.html
What a game by Pujols. Just wow.
The thank you ad is nice, but it’s interesting, since he’s choosing to leave at a very complex time, shall we say?
I do like the name of his charity “Foundation To Be Named Later.”
One comment on the pitching in this WS. Having a deep bullpen is great, but it’s supposed to be a complement to a starting rotation not a regular replacement for it. I wonder how the rest of the series will go. Texas would seem to be at a clear disadvantage today if Holland isn’t sharp, but St. Louis isn’t exactly in perfect shape, either.
Also, yes, Pujols had a game for the ages last night, but on the post game they were positively giddy that this was a sign that he’d have a game like this every night going forward. (But I do agree that Texas will be very wary of pitching to the Pujols.) Games like last night are special precisely because they don’t happen with regularity. But it sure was fun to watch!
Why exactly would you throw him a strike either of the last two at bats?
Time to give him his own brewery
Rangers fans are hoping the media leaves Pujols alone from now on.
Gary,
With Cliff Lee, perhaps the Yankees win the division running away, but all things being equal, the pitching did not lose them the ALDS. The lack of timely hitting did.
All things not being equal, I guess you could plug Lee into Nova’s start and Nova into Garcia’s start. But if Scherzer pitches the same, Nova may not win that game, either.
And then there’s the rain factor throwing everyone off a day.
I don’t think not having Lee made a difference in the ALDS.
Hamilton not being 100% and the Rangers mediocre starting pitching is making this a much more balanced series. The Rangers were better than the Cards for the bulk of this season….but the Cardinals have the best player on the field, they have the best starting pitcher on the field…..and they have just been on fire for a month. They could easily be up 3-0 right now.
The Rangers seem nervous and pressing …..
I agree the Rangers are pressing, probably knowing that their pitchers might be over matched a bit, or because they know how good Carpenter has been lately.
It’s absurd to debate what impact Lee would have made on the Texas series. There is absolutely no way of knowing. The bottom line is the team that had Lee is still playing, the team that couldn’t get Lee is done as is the team that DID get him.
For 2012 it will be interesting to see how CC’s status affects the Yanks plan. My guess is if CC is out they go all out for Darvish and/or Wilson, but that if CC stays the Yanks will look to play “let’s make a deal” for a solid starting pitcher to join the mix.
Swisher is also an interesting case. I like him a lot, but I don’t like him @ 10 M. Do they decline the option and try and get him to sign for $ 6 or $ 7 M?? Do they apply the savings toward pitching and try a Dickerson/Laird, Dickerson/Maxwell type combo in RF?
I know the Red Sox stuff is fun on one level, but here is an article from Jeff Bradley of the Star Ledger that gives some perspective. Just think 1986 Mets.
http://www.nj.com/yankees/inde.....aw_cr.html
I would rather them signed Matt Holliday than Cliff Lee
WS day off for travel. This opens up the day for other baseball news. Pressers in Chicago and Beansville with GM changes expected. Possible Cashman signing before Hal Steinbrenner heads back to Tampa. Little if anything with players moves.