The Nats will open their final homestand of the 2008 season next week vs. the Mets, and Cristian Guzman must be looking forward to it. Guzman feasted on Mets pitching in their series at Shea this week, batting .500 with 3 homers, 5 runs, and 7 RBI across the two game set. Cristian and the Nats will be looking to add to those stats and put a few Curly W's in the books starting Monday night at 7:10 p.m.
ugh Guzman killed us with those homers last time. Mets -290 lost 3-2 to the Braves. Thanks Dreessen Cardinals -138 lost 7-6 to the Pirates Indians -137 lost 8-3 to the Royals Indians -135 lost 8-4 to the Royals (Game 2). Dog took both ends Diamondbacks -133 lost 3-2 to the Reds Yankees -129 lost 7-1 to the Rays. Mussina ain't pitching like an ace these days. Rays -117 lost 6-5 to the Yankees (Game 2). The dog took both ends of the doubleheader. Rockies -114 lost 5-1 to the Dodgers
Twins won Game 1 against Baltimore, 12-2. Game 2 just started. 6 runs in the top of the first for Minnesota. Baltimore's awful pitching and Camden Yards are making the Twins look like a powerhouse lineup.
he struck out Ballentien and Ibanez with 2nd and 3rd. 2nd and 3rd, 1 out, he gets out of it. Came in with a 3 run lead. Struck out the best hitter on the Mariners with a full count and 2nd and 3rd. New record-holder. #57 saves #58
Indians -167 lose 13-3 to the Royals Mets -165 lose 7-4 to the Braves. Thanks Dreessen Twins -150 lose 7-3 to the Orioles Diamondbacks -150 lost 2-1 to the Reds. They're done San Diego -118 lost to the Giants in 10 innings Cardinals -112 lose 7-2 to the Pirates. They're done
Grand slams coming in bunches. Troy Tulowitzki hit one for the Rockies to cut the San Diego lead to 7-4, and then a few minutes later, Teagarden hits one to put the Rangers up on the Tigers, 7-5. The over/under was 12. Rockies -155 lost 11-5 to the Padres Mets -144 lost 7-2 to the Nationals. Pedro blows. Rays -117 got blown out by the Red Sox, 13-5 Twins -114 lost 3-1 to the Indians. They continue to miss chances to pick up ground on the ChiSox.
survivor and pickspal: Had toronto. Marcum gets injured early and they lose. Streak for the cash: had a 4 game streak and I go with the Yankees. They lose. I had Houston on centsports. They lose. Mets lose because they can't touch Odalis Perez. Phillies win. Worst...week...ever.
Blue Jays -200 lose 2-0 to the Orioles Mets -159 lose 1-0 to the Nationals Twins -155 lost 12-9 to the Indians in 11 innings Red Sox -152 lose 2-1 to the Rays Astros -141 lose 5-1 to the Marlins Yankees -140 lose 6-2 to ChiSox Angels -136 got blown out by the A's
On Sunday, Sept. 21, before the final home game of their 40th Anniversary Season, the A's will hold a pre-game ceremony honoring the members of the fan-voted all-time A's roster. Honored guests will include Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart, Joe Rudi, Bert "Campy" Campaneris, Terry Steinbach and current A's second baseman Mark Ellis.
I passed out around 10 PM last night, so I couldn't do the daily upsets. Here they are now: Dodgers -172 lost 15-8 to the Pirates. Wild and back and forth game. Rangers -144 lost 17-4 to the Tigers. :rofl: Braves -128 lost 6-1 to the Braves Angels -117 lost 3-2 to the A's light night for upsets
Ichiro tied Wee Willie Keeler's record by reaching 200 hits for his 8th consecutive season. I wonder if any other player ever got 200 hits every year of their career. Probably only players who are currently active. The only other possibility would be if a player was awesome but had his career end quickly due to war or injury or something. Jeter has done it 6 out of 14 seasons. A-Rod has done it 3 of 15. Jose Reyes has never done it. David Wright has never done it. Albert Pujols has done it 1 out of 8. Ichiro is a great hitter who doesn't walk much. Perfect combination.
This is another one of those achievements that look a lot more important than they really are. You note how the two arguably best hitters now (Pujols and Rodriguez) have rarely done it, but it's much bigger than that - the best hitters in baseball history rarely did it. Babe Ruth did it only 3 times; Ted Williams never did it; Willie Mays did it once; Jimmie Foxx did it twice. It is far more impressive that Stan Musial did it 6 times and Lou Gehrig did it 8 times than that Ichiro has done it 8 times, since they also walked and hit home runs. Unfortunately, when they decided not to count walks as part of batting average hits became overvalued, and this is a perfect example.
well, like I was saying, the main reason Ichiro can accumulate so many hits is that he doesn't walk much. The elite hitters like Pujols and A-Rod have power and are very dangerous, so they draw a lot of walks. Stan the Man and Ted Williams are two of the greatest ever. They're at the top of my list. Not surprising that Ted never did it. He walked over 140 times six different seasons. Over 100 walks in eleven seasons.
Jim Edmonds thrown out in the middle of an at bat in the bottom of the 11th. 1-0 count. Pitch well outside. Rapuano calls it a strike. Next pitch is even further outside, and again it's called a strike. Edmonds said something, and Rapuano immediately chucked him.
They clinched the division, BTW. Although today they're getting pummeled. first two innings: Carlos Zambrano pitching: Skip Schumaker: Ball, Schumaker doubled to left center. Ryan Ludwick: Foul, Ball, Ludwick singled to right, Schumaker to third. Albert Pujols: Ball, Strike looking, Foul, Pujols singled to left center, Schumaker scored, Ludwick to second. Felipe Lopez: Ball, Ball, Ball, Strike looking, Foul, Lopez walked, Ludwick to third, Pujols to second. Troy Glaus: Ball, Ball, Glaus flied out to center. Adam Kennedy: Kennedy homered to left, Ludwick, Pujols and Lopez scored. Aaron Miles: Ball, Foul, Miles grounded out to first. Adam Wainwright: Strike swinging, Strike looking, Wainwright struck out looking. End of Inning (5 Runs, 4 Hits, 0 Errors) Cubs 1st Adam Wainwright pitching: Alfonso Soriano: Ball, Foul, Strike swinging, Ball, Soriano singled to left center. Ryan Theriot: Ball, Strike looking, Ball, Foul, Theriot fouled out to right. Derrek Lee: Ball, Foul, Strike looking, Ball, Foul, Ball, Lee walked, Soriano to second. Aramis Ramirez: Ball, Strike looking, Ball, Ramirez popped out to third. Jim Edmonds: Ball, Edmonds grounded out to first. End of Inning (0 Runs, 1 Hit, 0 Errors) Cardinals 2nd Carlos Zambrano pitching: Jason LaRue: LaRue ground-rule doubled to center. Skip Schumaker: Ball, Schumaker flied out to left. Ryan Ludwick: Ball, Ball, Strike looking, Ball, Foul, Ludwick walked. Albert Pujols: Pujols grounded out to shortstop, LaRue to third, Ludwick to second. Felipe Lopez: Strike looking, Ball, LaRue scored, Ludwick to third on wild pitch, Foul, Lopez singled to right, Ludwick scored. Troy Glaus: Ball, Strike looking, Ball, Strike swinging, Ball, Glaus walked, Lopez to second. Sean Marshall relieved Carlos Zambrano. Adam Kennedy: Foul, Ball, Ball, Ball, Strike looking, Foul, Foul, Foul, Kennedy singled to center, Lopez scored, Glaus to third. Aaron Miles: Foul, Strike looking, Foul, Foul, Ball, Miles struck out swinging. End of Inning (3 Runs, 3 Hits, 0 Errors) Cubs 2nd Adam Wainwright pitching: Mark DeRosa: Strike looking, Ball, DeRosa grounded out to pitcher. Mike Fontenot: Strike looking, Ball, Strike looking, Fontenot struck out swinging. Henry Blanco: Foul, Blanco grounded out to third. End of Inning (0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors)
