SB Nation - Login for mobile commenting

Athletics Nation

Open Thread: Game 61 - A's at New York (cont.)

6-1 A's, bottom of the 7th, rain gone, Halsey in...

0 recs  |  221 comments

Comments

huh?
game not over??
Digging the recap.
Let's go Halsey. Let's go Oakland!
omg
wish it hadnt come back that comment jinxed us
It did not
Don't be ridiculous, it was the worst case scenario.
Game Over
=/
that's a great attitude
This place is spooked bad
You should have seen them in the Loiza game, oh no way we could win, when it was a cruise the whole way.

We're still winning, 2 outs.  For god's sake buckle up, take a drink, whatever.

ARGH. So much for my predicted strikeout.
LOOGY
we need a new one...
Ouch that smarts
<throws things>
I hate this.
Why couldn't THAT have been the result
of the Giambi at bat?
And A Rod kills the Yankee mo.
Anyone who wanted this game finished
Just doesn't get it.
Finished playing more, obviously
The remnants of our offense better pick it up
and show that the first half of this game wasn't a fluke. I don't think the pen can hold it.
They never seem to quit
in New York.

Don't expect them to just roll over.

Well, shit.
And, uh... stuff it.
Almost unfair
Giambi had an hour and a half to look at video of Halsey and sit on his pitch.
Giambi was
probably watching SMACKDOWN in the clubhouse during the deay.

Serious.

Between calzones of course
Where did that miss?
kendall
he was asking ump same thing
This just got a lot more interesting...
Ugh
god damn UMP
really
terrible call.
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Damn that ump!  Halsey looks lost.
They should make everyone
stay on the field during a rain delay. Make 'em sit under the tarp.
Halsey looks like he is just lobbing it over
like he doesn't care.
Stand Up Triple
And there may not be many people left, but Yankee Stadium is THUNDEROUS!
bullpen is our achilles heel
I somehow knew this would not be a cakewalk after such a long delay.

May come down to street.

I'd say we're 50-50 at best to win this thing.

we must
score more.  i knew that not getting rouse in after the lead off double could be very bad.
2 more runs, somehow
But I doubt they're coming-- for us, that is.
holy shit....pisses me off to no end.
Great job Halsey
Payton took a shitty shitty angle to that ball
Time for lightning to strike
Real lightning. In the Yankees dugout.
freaking indegestion from dinner
and now this crap to fester on.
<exhales>
<stops waiting>
Interesting
Hearing from a bunch of people that were mostly quiet before the delay... like... when the A's were doing well.
Or when we were at work.
Damn 9 to 5. (And damn 6 to 5)
true 'nuf...
I did lose track of how early it actually is right now...
Get. This. Guy. Out.
YES.
Phew.
It's a 1-0 game now.
And we're up. Keep the faith.
I'll throw the first stone.
Giambi should have been banned for life for his roids use - ideally before that last at-bat.
He hit a HgR.
we better light up Farnsworth
or else.
praying
praying we get more runs
Losing after being ahead the entire game ...
would be hard to take. C'Mon A's.
Well, it would be difficult to lose if you're
ahead the entire game. ;)
Marco "First Pitch" Scutaro
strikes again.
you could see that coming
Hey - could be worse...
At least he didn't hit a double play to lead off the inning.
bernie williams
cant you miss some of those out there
I hate the Yanks !
Typical game against them even with injuries they are a potent offense.  Our bullpen sucks!
here we are again
Daniel Boone versus the Girl Scouts.
OK Rouse. 4-run single.
If anyone can do it, he can.
The only question now
is not whether the A's lose, but how exactly it occurs. I'm betting on Giambi.
Funny. I'm betting we win.
Foolish to say
<cgv>

If you're wrong, you look like an ass. If you're right, you are an ass.

</cgv>

well said
and that applies not just to oaktoon, but to a few others as well (zonis).
you don't understand my karma
when i get real pessimistic, good things usually happen.
So where were you in May?
On vacation?
On TV...
Ray just talked about how Yankee Stadium has only one batting cage, so the Yankees get the unlimited use of it during a rain delay.

F%$*ers.

Rouse is AMAZING.
Mike Rouse
our own "Ichiro".
rouse
way to go. hes a keeper
Rouse can do no wrong.
i hereby nominate him for President of the Universe!!!
he should be the new batting coach
Kendall homer here?
stolen base time...
Can Kendall make it 2 HRs?
I kinda think no...
if no homer
put your elbow out lol
Yes.
"Pay the Elbow Pad Forward"
for the love of pete and my mental
health lets get three up three down.
I assume Yahoo is broken?
It said Kendall flied out to "deep left center."
not too shabby
close to track
I saw it...
...with my own eyes.
Is Halsey going back out?
please, whimper, no
Only if the showers are in back.
Did Kendall just sneak a peek?
A beat before he totally turned on that wheelhouse fastball, Kendall looked up the 1B line.  Only reason I can think is watching for some kind of tip off...Giambi maybe?  Swung like he knew what was coming.
Who did Rouse replace on the roster??
Have been out most of the evening. someone enlighten me.
Randy Keisler back to Sac
C'mon Calero
kiko....please...do it.
atta boy Calero!
2 more outs son..............
wondered what macha was doing
moving swisher
One more out!
KICU, please...
No Ben Grieve comparisons
but... but...
...he was Rookie Of the Year!  ;)
Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkooooooooooooooo
Calero!
rouse
why is he so bandaged up?
He reads the paper
and at this point, Larry Davis said that all infielders have to go out with at least three layers of bandages on all limbs and joints to avoid injury.
thank you
the way the a's have been having injurys i was wondering. thank god hes not hurt. knocking on wood
Rouse 3 hit debut
Per TV, first A's rookie 3 hit debut since Ben Grieve, Sept '97 (all three doubles as I recall).  Wow, nine years ago...
omigod
Karsay is warming up....
groan
hold the groans
(unless it's your pizza & ice cream talking)

Ray said Karsay is probably just getting some work in, not warming up to come into the game.

Karwhat?
Anybody who doesn't have Street on the back of their jersey better be chained to the bench.
he must
jst be throwing.  no way they bring him into this mess.
Karsay is a God.
There. Said it.
Maybe it'll be true today...
Who are we kidding? WTF is going on?
Lovely, Kiko, thank you.
whyyyyy
whyyyy must the A's always play these one run games?! this is not good for my health!
Calero is the
SHIT BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1-2-3 inning
Phew
KIKOOOOOOOOOO
K-K-Kalerooooooooo

no street on the bullpen??
Karsay getting ready for what??

{points to a few comments up}
Probably just throwing... Ray said Huston will probably come in.
street
vs. Jeter-Giambi and ARod-- wow-- fasten your seatbelts.
That's quality baseball.
no?
I didn't see street warming up, just Karsay.

I don't wanna think about it.

Jeter-Giambi?
Did they get hitched and hyphenate their last names? How cute!
Street in bullpen
I think the bullpen phone must've had a bad connection earlier
KICU now shows Huston warming up
<takes finger off button>
your care is safe, Macha...for now.
Car.
Care is almost funnier.
they both work
announcers
said the calero-street formula is working dont change it
swisher
please starting hitting now please
Just kidding.
There's nothing to be happy about.
arrgggghhhhhh! DP??!!
So I had gone off to do other things...
...in the middle of the rain delay.

Now I'm back.  It's an inning and a half later. And it's a one-run game.

Argh!

ahah! It's YOUR fault!
I _wish_ that my watching a game...
...prevented A's come-from-ahead losses, but I have plenty of empirical evidence that the A's are capable of blowing big leads while I'm watching.
COME ON FT
Best possible scenario...
Line drive of Rivera's melon into left field for a clean single.
Grisly, yet effective.
Or have a grizzly charge the mound
Or a polar bear-grizzly bear hybrid.
A "pizzly" bear, as noted bear informant Stephen Colbert would say.
come on frank
put a hurt on them
feh.
DP's should be illegal.  Except when the A's are turning them.
thomas
straighten those hits out
this is as huge a half inning
as we may have all season .
The A's are going to lose...
I don't know how, but somehow...

Whoa. Channeled in for a second.

Come on Huston
Please.
Well, since you're asking him so nicely...
...he'll probably oblige.  ;)
See?
Manners count. :-)
I can't believe
Macha let Payton go to bat against Rivera!!!!!!!!!1

Does anybody else go w/ a left handed bat in that situation???????

Rivera's cutter
can actually be nastier against lefties.  It tends to drift out across the plate against righties, and bore in on lefties.
If Kotsay is hurt, we have no outfielders
and after an hour delay, I wouldn't being him in
If Macha had put in a lefty, I would have been
pissed.
gonna switch off mlb tv
and listen to Korach audio while in fetal position on couch
huston
1-2-3 please
C'mon Street
I may...
just have to watch with no sound. Don't want to listen to Yankees announcers.
i hear ya...to insulting/humiliating if
there is bad news for us.
Two more outs...
Yes, but brilliant intangibles on that out...
...by Jeter!
Why didn't he slap his arm?
Preety boy go sit
fainting
omg scary
EEEW!!!
Two girls in the stands, dressed all in pink Yankees gear, standing there text-messaging while Jeter was at bat!
That must not have been Rouse
I refuse to believe his throw could pull Swish off the base.
This guy looks familiar...
....where have I seen him before?
At Balco?
Or at the human growth hormone dealer?
KILLER pitch
Go Street
A-Rod
easy out? yes?
i almost had a heart attack!
Perez made that WAY too suspenseful
But Giambi's out  :)
omg
fainting again
what the hell...
perez?
He was trying to set up the DP
Have faith, little one.
clutching stomach, groaning
huston!
clap clap
Prediction: Line out to Rouse
if he gets out of this...
Street will have earned TWO saves in my book.
Okay...
I thought you meant this would be his second save... and I was thinking you'd better update your book...  ;)
Apparently there are only about 10k fans left
...in Yankee Stadium.

This should feel like a home game at this point.  That's about the number of Yankee fans in the park when the A's play the Yanks in Oakland!

Ballgame.
YES!
wow.. is it me
or is gameday really on top of its shit tonite?? the gameday guys must actually be watching this surprising game..

(surprising = line-up, not bullpen)

Rain delay gave 'em time to catch up.
I love Huston Street
MIKE ROUSE FOR PRES!
Fly Out: A Milton Bradley game.
Well, that was a little too interesting.
yahoo!!!!!
Should be the Liza Minelli
version New York, New York.

Man, that city is silly.

WWWHHHHEEEWWW HHHHEEEWWW!!!!!
We won.
In case anyone is paying attentiong. This was huge. Great game!
should have been 6-1
stupid rain delay.
and stupid Giambi
A win is a win
I'll take it
it was a mirror image of
Game 5, 2001.
That, my friends
was the biggest win of the year. By far.

And Haren gets a deserved win. And the Rouse-Perez-Scutaro lineup that someone was dreading earlier today produces a victory.

And we have a closer, don't we??

Make "someone" just about everyone
It's remarkable under any circumstances.
It's too soon, however
to assume Mike Rouse is going to get into the Hall of Fame, or even that he'll be this year's AL MVP.

Rookie of the Year, of course, is a sure thing.

A wonderful game.
Our guys have made my night !
Yankeeeeeeees Looooose!
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssslooooooooooooose! I love it baby! Stick it where the sun don't shine Yankees cuz I can't stand your assess mothafu*&^s!!!!!!!!!!!!
coooooooooool
I just fear jeter and giambi, but aRod aka 'el fucu', doesn't bother me in those situations.

THANK YOU MR. STREET

And as for Rivera
It's always nice to open a Yankee series with him pitching in a loss.
Now the National Fox game
tomorrow.....they usually have a couple which means I will get to veiw some stupid NL game which I won't watch and be blacked out on mlbtv
The rain delay
can really kill a team's momentum.
Keep Rouse
Screw Perez

=]

Keep Rouse, yes...
...but I'll take a pass on that other part.
no perez's pequenos for poppy???
i bet he feels left out :(
yankees
LOSERS PUTTING L ON FOREHEAD
That was fun
Cold meds are great!
Now we are only 2/half games
out of first people! Let'go Oakland!!!!!!!!!!!
Ballsy inning by Street
Big.

You must Login with your SB Nation account and be a member of Athletics Nation to post a comment.