O-o-T-S Tuesday

[Frayed Knot]

Lotsa fun stuff last night in between and around our rain delays:

NL:
- Cincy beat WC-leading Sandy Eggo with 1 in the 8th and then a walk-off from Jason LaRue in the 11th

- Dodgers jump out to a 7-0 lead after 3 ... and then proceed to cough up 8 to the Cubs, and then tie it up again, only to lose it in the 11th also.
Cubs won despite making SIX errors

- Pujols haunts Lidge again - this time with a come-from-behind, walk-off 2-RBI 2B in the 9th for a 6-5 win. Pettitte left in the 3rd with an injury

- Nationals beat Arizona - which by itself isn't all that interesting - but Luis Gonzalez hit his 50th 2B of the season, becoming the oldest player to do so. This is a guy who was being benched earlier this season

- Giants spotted the Rox a 4-0 lead, but came back with 6 in the 2nd and went on to win 10-4

- And the Braves got eliminated from winning the division while getting rained on at the same time. Cool!


AL:
- Twins get 4 in the 8th to beat Oakland 7-5. The game-winner was a 2-RBI 2B by Justin Morneau who would be a MVP candidate if only he could get some clutch hits like Derek Jeter

- Tigers win 3-2 on a walk-off 9th inning HR from Jose Guillen - his 2nd HR of the game.
Guillen's a SS with numbers very similar to Jeter (JG=.310/.389/.519, 19 HRs vs DJ=.346/.423/.492, 13 HRs) and would be an MVP candidate if only he were on a 1st-place team and could get some clutch hits

- ChiSox take a huge body-blow by losing to the Angels in the 11th, and a game to both other ALCentral teams

- BoSox give up 4 to the O's in the 9th but survive 5-4

- KC beat the seriously, I just used a racist word when I really meant "Guardians" - Booooorrrrring - but the fun part was Royal pitcher Runelvys Hernandez and John Buck getting into a fist fight in the dugout between innings. Both stayed in the game.

- And it's not like the Yanx beating up on Bal'mer and TB for a couple of straight days is all that interesting, but GEEZ can the opposition at least catch a fly ball. In the last 2 nights the O's and Devil Dogs have mis-played [u:fc66307f71]3 different[/u:fc66307f71] 2-out/bases-loaded "hits". Playing some "D" would at least keep the spread to within a touchdown.
Jeter got plunked once and walked 3 times in the game. He was then PH'd for - which seems kind of weird until you realize that because all his ABs were walks & HBPs that his hitting streak does NOT end. Torre is apparently claiming he didn't realize this when he made the swap.

[Willets Point]

Matsui is back and Sheffield is due back soon. The Yanks are freakin' unstoppable.