OoTS 8/27

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

St, Louis has defeated Washington 6-0

Florida & Dontrelle edged the stinky Cubs 2-1

Philly (Leiber) @ AZ (Webb), 4

ATL (Smoltz) @ Milwaukee (Helling), 7

Houston (Oswalt) @ LAD (Jackson) 10

KC beating the MFYs 7-3 in the 8th

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Mother Fucking Yankees pulled it out with 5 in the 9th.

With Giambi on first, 1 out, and trailing by 4, Posada hit a comebacker to Affeldt: couldn;t have been an easier DP, except, the Royal shortstop took 10 minutes to go over to the bag to cover, making Affeldt throw to an empty base. Throw came in low, was dropped and everyone safe.

Then the next 5 or 6 MFYs got hits.

Grrrr

[Zvon]

No score in the Phil game after 4 full

[Zvon]

a pitching duel here in the Phil/Dback game.
0-0 in the 7th.

[Frayed Knot]

ABSOLUT CINTRON!

Alex Cintron's 2R HR gives the Snakes a 2-0 lead over the Sillies after 7.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: ABSOLUT CINTRON! Alex Cintron's 2R HR gives the Snakes a 2-0 lead over the Sillies after 7.

and i saw that homer. Abreu really should have brought it back into the park with the leather. A very hi fly & stealable homer. Just made it over the fence and he just missed it off the side of his glove.

[Zvon]

Phils lose on that one homer.
If you see it, youll see.
Abreu should have had it.
Theres a break 4 us.

[Guest PiazzaFan411]

Heres all the current scores:

Complete Games:
New York Yankees 8 @Kansas City Royals 7
Florida Marlins 2 @Chicago Cubs 1
Minnesota Twins 7 @ Texas Rangers 2
St. Louis Cardinals 6 @ Washington Nationals 0
San Francisco Giants 2 @ New York Mets 1
Arizona Diamnondbacks 2 @Philidelphia Phillies 0
Toronto Blue Jays 2 @ Cleveland Indians 1
Oakland Atheletics 12 @ Baltimore Orioles 3
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6 @ Los Angeles Angels 3

Games In Progress:
Milwaukee Brewers 2 @ Atlanta Braves 2 (Top 4th)
Cinncinatti Reds 0 @ Pittsburgh Pirates 0 (Top 2nd)
Boston Red Sox 7 @ Detroit Tigers 5 (Bottom 4th)

Games Yet to Start:
Chicage White Sox @ Seattle Mariners 10:05 PM
Colorado Rockies @ San Diego Padres 10:05 PM
Houston Astros @ Los Angeles Dodgers 10:10 PM

Well there is good news and bad news.

The bad news is that the Mets lost and the Marlins won. That clears the tie and puts us a half game back. The good news is that the Nationals lost. That keeps us 4th in the hunt.

[Frayed Knot]

BoSox blow an early 6-run lead and lose to Detroit.

Braves win

5 runs in the 1st for the Dodgers against Houston - that's several bad starts for Oswalt lately

[Guest PiazzaFan411]

FINAL SCOREBOARD:

American League:
New York Yankees 3 @ Kansas City Royals 7
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6 @ Los Angeles Angels 3
Minnesota Twins 7 @ Texas Rangers 2 (11)
Detroit Tigers 12 @ Boston Red Sox 8
Toronto Blue Jays 2 @ Cleveland Indians 1
Oakland Atheletics 12 @ Baltimore Orioles 3
Chicago White Sox 4 @ Seattle Mariners 3

National League:
Colorado Rockies 4 @ San Diego Padres 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 8 @ Houston Astros 3
St. Louis Cardinals 6 @ Washington Nationals 0
Florida Marlins 2 @ Chicago Cubs 1
San Francisco Giants 2 @ New York Mets 1
Arizona Diamondbacks 2 @ Philadelphia Phillies 0
Atlanta Braves 8 @ Milwaukee Brewers 4
Cinncinatti Reds 4 @ Pittsburgh Pirates 2 (10)

American League Standings:

AL East:
Boston 73-54
New York 72-56
Toronto 65-64
Baltimore 61-67
Tampa Bay 54-76

AL Central:
Chicago 73-54
Cleveland 72-58
Minnesota 68-61
Detroit 62-65
Kansas City 42-85

AL West:
Los Angeles 73-56
Oakland 72-56
Texas 60-68
Seattle 54-73

National League Standings:

NL East:
Atlanta 73-56
Philadelphia 70-60
Florida 69-60
New York 68-61
Washington 67-62

NL Central:
St. Louis 82-48
Houston 68-60
Milwaukee 64-66
Chicago 61-68
Cincinnati 61-68
Pittsburgh 54-78

NL West:
San Diego 63-64
Arizona 59-72
Los Angeles 57-71
San Francsico 56-72
Colorado 50-78

[Frayed Knot]

Jeez, after I saw the hi(low)-lights of Saturday's Yanqui game it was even worse than I imagined.
Not only was that error on a sure game-ending play (Posada & Giambi running) but then almost every hit that followed was a dinky grounder that justbarely found a hole through the IF. Any one of them could have ended the game ... but Noooooo!

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

[smg58]

In short, there are very good reason why the Royals have the record that they have. Maybe priority #1 for them should be infield defense...

[Guest PiazzaFan411]

I bet you anything that if the Royals had not gone on a 19 game losing streak they would have performed better.