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!
OakA'sHoney - October 8, 2009
results added above
67MARQUEZ - October 8, 2009
hi
mikev - October 8, 2009
At least one game was moderately exciting
Still wasn’t well played.
Can we just watch tuesday’s game again?
Future Ed - October 8, 2009
The Matt Holliday error
gave me some serious lulz.
istillhateyoumatthollidayandamlaughingatyourfailure
cityplANner - October 9, 2009
lol...No soup for you!
Take it easy my friend!!!
MMunoz33 - October 9, 2009
Seconded.
OldhamA - October 9, 2009
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?”
Streams Of Whiskey - October 9, 2009
Awesome.
Blicks - October 9, 2009
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.
Nick - October 9, 2009
Way to tell the fans that they're having an impact
Expect towels the rest of the way out!
baseballgirl - October 9, 2009
Expect a huge white tarp to be unveiled behind home plate for the
home at bats.
OldhamA - October 9, 2009
It's called home field advantage Adam
stop complaining.
micdog2001 - October 9, 2009
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.
Nick - October 9, 2009
Remember how the A's would tarp off one section of the cf bleachers
so as not to distract the batters?
67MARQUEZ - October 9, 2009
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.
Nick - October 9, 2009
there'll be no excuse if they lose game 3 at home.
likeiwouldtellyou - October 9, 2009
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.
AV - October 9, 2009
Bud Selig was on the grassy knoll
cityplANner - October 9, 2009
so the ex-A's were
Holliday – major fail
Blanton – fail
Street – money
that about right?
closetasfan - October 9, 2009
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.
Trainman - October 9, 2009
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
bobnothing - October 9, 2009
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.
Blicks - October 9, 2009
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.
Sweet Spot - October 9, 2009
Hilliday = Holliday = big sissy baby
Sweet Spot - October 9, 2009
Andre Ethier - Solo HR
micdog2001 - October 9, 2009
Matt Stairs- pinch walk
Gaijin_Suketto - October 9, 2009
ex-A's
CarGon has been money too.
Santa Cruz Surfer - October 9, 2009
except that play at the wall when he ended up on the warning track.
AV - October 9, 2009
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.
JLaff - October 9, 2009
One of my all time favorite books about baseball, ‘Ball Four’ by Jim Bouton. If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/Ball-Four-Jim-Bouton/dp/0020306652
Sweet Spot - October 9, 2009
I've got it
It’s on my list of books to read.
JLaff - October 9, 2009
I've literally read it 18 times
and my favorite part is the story about Ted Williams taking batting practice.
“I’m Ted Fucking Williams and I’m the greatest hitter in baseball. Jesus H. Christ couldn’t get me out!”
Gaijin_Suketto - October 9, 2009
"Gent;lemen, it's a round ball and around bat...
…and the object is to hit it square." – Joe Schulz, Seattle Pilots Manager, from Ball Four.
That’s been one of my favorite lines ever since I first read it as a twelve year old.
Dr Pez - October 9, 2009
When I was seven, reading it for the first time,
I asked my mom, “hey mom, what’s beaver shooting?”
and she slapped me.
Gaijin_Suketto - October 9, 2009
It was worse for me.
Mine told me.
67MARQUEZ - October 9, 2009
Oh yeah?
Mine told me to go on over the Cal campus to sharpen my skills.
Dr Pez - October 9, 2009
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