Sorry no time to work on entering standings, pitching matchups, etc.
I do have enough time to say things are looking much better for the Cards today with a 2-out 2-run double in the 1st and throwing out the Cubs leadoff man in the bottom of the inning on the bases. A win today would give them a 4-2 road trip through Milwaukee and Chicago and a majority of the games left on the schedule at home.
12thmonkey
08-20-07, 01:55 PM
Cards v Cubs tied at 2 after a pair of Cub homers by Ward and DeRosa in the 2nd.
gilbertr76
08-20-07, 03:07 PM
1st pitch homer for D. Lee to lead off the bottom of the 6th to bring Cubs to within 1 run! :up:
Cards 5 - Cubs 4
gilbertr76
08-20-07, 03:21 PM
Frickin' Ankiel! :grunt:
namja
08-20-07, 03:29 PM
Frickin' Ankiel! :grunt:
As of right now (middle of 7th inning of the game in progress), Ankiel is batting:
10 for 31 (.323) with 4 HRs and 7 RBIs.
Not bad for a pitcher.
cardsfan111
08-20-07, 03:31 PM
As of right now (middle of 7th inning of the game in progress), Ankiel is batting:
10 for 31 (.323) with 4 HRs and 7 RBIs.
Not bad for a pitcher.
Impressive to note that his double and homer today both came off left handed pitchers.
Big Dave
08-20-07, 04:48 PM
Start the damn game again. It's not be raining by me for a bit (right by O'Hare).
Canadian Bacon
08-20-07, 05:43 PM
Cards win
:up:
das Monkey
08-20-07, 06:27 PM
McCann goes yard for 4 in the 1st. :banana:
das
Sorraffy
08-20-07, 06:48 PM
McCann goes yard for 4 in the 1st. :banana:
das
and Tex asks for and receives 3 more!!!
i think he's doing pretty good
chrisih8u
08-20-07, 06:48 PM
It's great to rough up Kazmir after all the shit he's given us over the years.
B.A.
08-20-07, 07:28 PM
Pineiro picks up his third straight victory. :beer:
LorenzoL
08-20-07, 07:30 PM
Rough outing for Marcum. He's pulled in the third after giving up 6 runs.
shizawn
08-20-07, 07:32 PM
Dang, just turned the game on mlb.tv and the Braves are up 11-2. Tex with 2 3-run homers already. :up:
Sorraffy
08-20-07, 07:33 PM
and Teixeira adds another HR worth 3 more
that's 2 for the night and 6 RBI .... Mark Loves Cinn!!!
lol 10 RBIs in 2 games ... that's great stuff
pedagogue
08-20-07, 07:40 PM
Freakin' Tex!
-p
Brent L
08-20-07, 07:45 PM
Tex is now the new lord and ruler of Atlanta.
Sorraffy
08-20-07, 07:46 PM
*sigh* if only all 5 pitchers could back this offense, things would be so much easier
shizawn
08-20-07, 07:52 PM
Good that they scored all those runs. Hudson isn't pitching particularly well tonight.
das Monkey
08-20-07, 08:37 PM
4 HRs and 10 RBIs in 2 days. 9 HRs and 25 RBIs in 18 games since he arrived on August 1st. That's insane.
Hudson may escape the Wickman blown-save yet again.
das
wilky61
08-20-07, 09:41 PM
Yep, 9 HRs in 18 games since joining Atlanta for Tex. :up:
Perhaps more exciting is Tim Hudson, who is 9-0 over his last 11 starts. He became the first NL pitcher to hit 15 wins this season. I know there's some very good pitchers in the NL this year (*glares at Arizona*), but he's kinda quietly putting together a Cy Young caliber year.
Rogue588
08-20-07, 09:48 PM
Since i'm here...
How exactly does one get Shawn/Sean/Shaun out of Chone?
Aphex Twin
08-20-07, 09:57 PM
Since i'm here...
How exactly does one get Shawn/Sean/Shaun out of Chone?
Same way you get it out of Dwyane and Favre
pedagogue
08-20-07, 11:32 PM
The Mets now have the largest lead of any division leader in baseball (5 games).
-p
Rogue588
08-20-07, 11:59 PM
Putting Farnsworth in is a brilliant move...
Nabalab
08-21-07, 12:10 AM
Wow - Yanks get out of it thanks to good defense and a check-swing strike out. Looks like they're going to win this one.
ETA - Okay I was wrong. Angels win in 10.
Rogue588
08-21-07, 01:31 AM
First rule of MLB threads in Sports talk...Never, ever, ever, ever declare your team a winner. Or even allude to them being the winner.
Second...Never state the current score in the game (even if your team's ahead).
You're a Senior Member, Nabalab. You should know this. -ohbfrank-:p
Stupid halos. Don't they know we're not their competition (at this moment, anyway). -ohbfrank-
Back at 5. Sigh..
Aphex Twin
08-21-07, 01:37 AM
It's called upsetting the woof gods.
Quake1028
08-21-07, 02:00 AM
Pretty sure Nab is a Mets fan.
LorenzoL
08-21-07, 05:12 AM
Rough outing for Marcum. He's pulled in the third after giving up 6 runs.
WTF happened to our offense? :mad:
raven56706
08-21-07, 06:38 AM
why the hell did they put henn in the game.... gosh....
Nabalab
08-21-07, 07:17 AM
Pretty sure Nab is a Mets fan.
You are correct!
Sorry Rogue - based on the way the Yankees have been playing as of late (read - GOOD), I was pretty sure they'd come out on top. Next time I think that I'll just say that to myself instead of typing it :p
Aphex Twin
08-21-07, 12:37 PM
Best pic I've seen in a major newspaper's site in awhile:
why the hell did they put henn in the game.... gosh....
I guess with 7-8-9 hitters coming up it didn't seem like a terrible decision. But I would have put Villone in that inning. He's nothing great but he would have been a better bet than Henn. Ramierez wouldn't have been a bad choice either.
Actually, if we're talking in hypothetics I would have put Chamberlain in and not thought twice about it. I can understand not overusing him but if they put him in for an inning or two last night that would have been far from abuse.
Anyway, Mussina vs. Escobar tonight. Moose has been so inconsistent but if we ever needed a good outing from him it would be tonight.
Obey The D
08-21-07, 03:05 PM
Actually, if we're talking in hypothetics I would have put Chamberlain in and not thought twice about it. I can understand not overusing him but if they put him in for an inning or two last night that would have been far from abuse.
Thank god they didn't put him in...or else we would've been subjected to another "The Joba Rules" story by Michael K.
CRM114
08-21-07, 03:59 PM
Hmmm. Do I start hoping the Mets beat up on the Padres and Dodgers and hope for the wildcard OR do I keep cheering the Mets to lose for a chance at the division?
I think I'll hold off on that decision until the Phils-Mets series next week.
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