Comments on: And That Happened: Tuesday’s scores and highlights

By: mgflolox

mgflolox — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:13:07 +0000

Don’t know if anybody has beaten me to this observation, but I think Bryce Harper has played his last minor league game, barring an injury-rehab stint or something like that.

By: goawaydog

goawaydog — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:27:35 +0000

agreed! Melky’s throw was a no hop laser from left field and Buster played it perfectly. Cain looked good, striking out 7 with no walks (wont mention all the hits or 4 runs but the G-men scored 6 so that;s what matters). And Busters moon shot off the centerfield scoreboard? nice

By: Cris E

Cris E — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:15:20 +0000

The Twins are on a 5-1 roll. Let’s give it up for a complete rotation rebuild by Memorial Day. Whoo whoo!

By: angrycorgi

angrycorgi — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:23:47 +0000

24 hours after Hamilton committed an error on one of the worst throws I’ve ever seen him make, he redeems himself with defense. Good to see him bounce back from that error with some spectacular play in CF.

By: Gamera the Brave

Gamera the Brave — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:16:17 +0000

sonoco
Thanks for being one of the very few Gigantes commenters here – sometimes I get NL East/AL East burnout. We have APBA Guy to rep the Swingin’ A’s, but the Giants have a pretty small readership here…

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:11:11 +0000

When you get 1-hit, it’s hard to find anything positive in a game. The A’s this morning are probably reduced to saying that Pennington put on one of the great displays of defense at short in the first 3 innings of the game, part of an overall team display (including Donaldson’s official Web Gem tm) and Cowgill’s toss-out of Kendrick at the plate. The A’s had 5-count ‘em-five great plays in the first 3 innings.

And they needed every one. New-Guy “My Man” Godfrey’s first pitch of the game to Trout was an 87 mph mushball that had Trout so startled that he jumped back out of the batter’s box with a look that said it all: damn, I could’ve killed that pitch. From then on, the Angels were smokin’.

Albert’s homer was on an 86 MPH Mark Leiter Special that could not have been anymore perfectly centered in the zone. The tense and emphatic conversation in the A’s dugout between Curt Young and Bob Melvin seemed clear: “Get the Sacramento Shuttle back here, this kid’s got nothing.” Godfrey came out of the game with a “cramp” in his pitching hand in the 3rd. I like that one. It’s original and can disappear as mysteriously as it appeared.

The A’s have the distinct pleasure of facing Jered Weaver today, as he attempts to best CJ’s one-hitter. Rookie Jarrod Parker faces him today after his wost start of his young career last time. Personally I think Parker is the real deal, making the Cahill trade worth it by himself. Could be a good game.

By: icanspeel

icanspeel — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:05:58 +0000

In regards to Padres tickets.. You are in luck Craig. 1 benefit of going to Padres games is finding great tickets for cheap prices no matter the game. Living in San Diego they try to sell me season tickets but I always tell them that I can get individual tickets for less than season ticket prices in better seats without the commitment.

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:58:01 +0000

OMG, a reference to the original, Don Siegel version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the brilliant, under-appreciated version with it’s dark McCarthyism tones.

BTW, can the Feesh even see the Strange Attractor from their lofty perch?

By: dennisund

dennisund — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:00:20 +0000

You are quite mindphucked.

By: seanmk

seanmk — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:27:47 +0000

adam jones is having a break out season, chris davis is surprisingly hitting, hardy and wieters are both hitting for power, Nick Markakis is having a decent season, they have some good pieces here.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:25:59 +0000

PPPPPPTP!

By: sonoco

sonoco — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:25:27 +0000

Check the replay on Posey’s tag at home. He was way off the line and made a swipe tag. Cabrera’s throw was AWESOME!!!!

By: rockthered1286

rockthered1286 — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:22:54 +0000

I’ll take a stab here: depth. Something the Indians lacked last year. While our rotation has been solid, we still have Britton waiting in the wings, allowing us to either drop Hunter back to the pen or possibly put him on the block. Depth in the field as well, where the fill ins are playing like starters and the injured Reimold, Roberts and Reynolds are all itching to get back and get in the action. For once we are going to be buyers not sellers, and have the depth available to make the right moves. Not saying we are aperenial playoff contender now, just a much improved version of what we used to be.

By: nolanwiffle

nolanwiffle — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:22:07 +0000

Hamels! You’re next! And for Crist’s sake show some stirrup…..we wanna see old school, country hardball.

By: roycethebaseballhack

roycethebaseballhack — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:15:40 +0000

Part of me wishes Nike Golf, or Callaway or some other golf equipment beast would get Beckett under contract and make us the funniest golf equipment commercial of all time.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:12:33 +0000

Coming back to Indy now Gator. Bring on Game #6!
“Gloryhole.” Hahahaha!

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:11:26 +0000

Pre-empted? By basketball??? That’s terrible. I’d rather watch a 24-hour “Titanic” marathon.
But I have similar problems when the Astros are pre-empted. The local radio network has enough power to knock down an incoming ICBM, but the announcing has taken a turn south. Milo Hamilton is safely over the hill, and Dolan and Raymond are chatterers.

I look forward to the new Astros’ network next year. Especially if they keep the present FoX SW crew.

By: El Bravo

El Bravo — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:59:47 +0000

He was superb. It was a fun game to watch after seeing him really struggle most of the year.

By: El Bravo

El Bravo — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:58:57 +0000

Phillies Phillies Phillies Phillies Philllies Phuck the Phillies.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:50:54 +0000

The Phillies play like a bunch of Poopy pants. Besides Ruiz, Pierre, and most of the pitching staff.

Poopy Pants!

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:32:06 +0000

You make a good point…they could still crater out, but there’s SOMETHING there that resembles a very solid team. We’ll just have to wait until the end of the season to find out if they’re punching above their weight class or not.

By: hisgirlgotburrelled

hisgirlgotburrelled — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:31:05 +0000

You knew watching it that when Ruiz turned around for the 2nd time that if he said anything with the word “strike” or “ball” in it then he was gone… but, still, I’d really like the umps to not always have to have the last word and have thicker skin. NFL refs get totally screamed at and they just either look stone-faced towards the field or calmly explain their ruling. It takes a lot to get ejected, let alone even draw a flag. I’d love to see fewer managers and players kicked out of games.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:23:02 +0000

What a coincidence. The Heat’s destruction of the Pacers pre-empted the usual Feesh cable television broadcast at Tobacco Road last night, and the radio broadcast was shunted to some little pirate station transmitting from a hand-cranked generator based on one of the abandoned stilt-perched feeshing shanties in Biscayne Bay. Nobody wanted to tell me what its band was so I had to follow the game on my dumbphone, which my odd Hemingway hound Fido tells me is about as much fun as trying to eat from a bowl that’s been left outside your crate.

The Rocky Mountain Oysters’ peetching staff collapsed last night, as usual, after they put up a fourspot against Ricky Nolasco’s evil pod-person twin – only his pod twin can hit, so his two RBI double in the third was a dead giveaway about which one we were dealing with, and Ricky-pod and the Feesh won. Kevin McCarthy would have loved it. Ricky is now the all time Feesh wins leader with – and aww, isn’t this just too poetic – sixty nine victories.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:16:51 +0000

I said this earlier this season. Big Roy’s fastball barely cracks 90mph these days. Seems to move ok, but maybe it was the velocity he threw at that made the movement effective? But without the true heat to blow past the hitters he’s just not the same guy. This worries me.

By: hisgirlgotburrelled

hisgirlgotburrelled — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:13:50 +0000

Nationals Park – North?… Staking claim to someone else’s park and you can’t even show up to your own.

Oh, how dominate the Nationals have been vs. the Phillies. Great, you won 2 games in Philly this year. You really want to brag about beating the Phillies in games last year? Is that like a moral victory after getting beat 27 times between ’09-’10? Or all you can get out of another losing season?

It’s still pretty early and the Phillies are playing with Mike Fontenot and Hector Luna every night. Why dont’ we wait and see for a couple months before you start staking claim to another city’s park.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:09:34 +0000

This.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:06:27 +0000

Gloryhole fans are bending over backwards to compliment everybody involved in this year's unexpected run except Peter Angelos. Why, you'd think there was no Peter Angelos. Faced with the prospects of having to eat crow the size of a Thanksgiving turkey for a family of ten that's invited all the aunts, uncles and cousins over for the holidays, Baltimore fans have maintained the kind of silence about their beloved owner that used to be reserved for knowing when your boyfriend was sailing on a container ship for Liverpool in 1942. You'd be led to believe, based on the utter silence, the refusal to acknowledge his mere existence, that there never has been a Peter Angelos. Where are the accolades for the dark genius who shaped this team? Where is the acknowledgment of the secret moves, canny trades, clever drafts and, above all, the bountiful generosity in keeping two generations of washouts and hasbeens employed in the game that finally paid off in this exhilarating first quarter of a 2012 season? Come on, Baltimore - if Milwaukee can erect a statue to the wretched Bud Light, you can construct a Colossus of Camden Yards to bestride the harbor and keep benevolent watch over your destiny. Don't think. Just do it. It is only fitting and proper.

By: Phillies Homer

Phillies Homer — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:02:25 +0000

In order for it to be dubbed “Nationals Park – North” you need fans to go there. Hell, in order to be considered a “fanbase” you need fans.

Baby steps.

By: seanmk

seanmk — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:58:40 +0000

aceshigh11 how does them being in first place now “prove they are legit.” Last year at this time the cleveland indians were 30-15 at this exact date, they ended 80-82. The O’s have a lot of games to play still and their pitching staff does not inspire a lot of confidence in me that they will keep up this kind of performance.

By: Phillies Homer

Phillies Homer — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:57:42 +0000

What team does Roy Hailiday play for?