OoTS, 7/10/09

[Gwreck]

Jonathan Sanchez of the Giants threw a no-hitter against San Diego.

11 Ks, 0 BBs. Only baserunner was due to a Juan Uribe error in the eighth inning. Caught the end of it on MLB network, where I was waiting for them to tell me (via Elias) when the last time a perfect game was broken up by an error...I can't remember it ever happening. Maybe they're still checking.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

JUAAAAAAANNN!



It's a prrefect game in me books, Jonny.

[Gwreck]

Elias sez:

Terry Mullholland's no-hitter in 1990 was the last one. Charlie Hayes error and the runner was erased via DP, so Mulholland only faced 27 batters.

[nymr83]

]JUAAAAAAANNN!

thats great.


poor sanchez, at least the gane will be remembered for it

[MFS62]

Uribe is one of those players you just know will become a Met at the end of his career.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The best part is that Uribe was a DEFENSIVE substitution for... yes, you guessed it...



Luckily, Pablo is a jolly sort of fellow, whose belly jiggles in a cheerful fashion as he ho-ho-hos at the consistent lack of respect.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's a pretty cruel statistical oddity that pitchers lose a perfect game to a play that has nothing to do with them. But defense takes away, and defense giveth.

[Frayed Knot]

="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]The best part is that Uribe was a DEFENSIVE substitution for... yes, you guessed it... Luckily, Pablo is a jolly sort of fellow, whose belly jiggles in a cheerful fashion as he ho-ho-hos at the consistent lack of respect.

You know what, I saw the replay earlier this morning and it a was on off-the-chest (or belly) hop which bounced far enough away to where Uribe couldn't recover.

All of which reminds me of when Lenn Sakata replaced Brooks Robinson at 3rd in Bal'mer. Even Brooks Robinson used to refer to himself as Mr. Bad Body and remarked that the problem the small-ish but more carved gymnast-type body that Sakata had made those hops ricochet all over the place where in Brooks's case they'd just fall at his feet for easy pick up.
Maybe Sandoval could have done the same thing last night.

[Elster88]

I don't even know what team it was, just caught this on Web Gems. Bases loaded, right fielder catches a hard line drive on a short hop, and immediately throws a one hop bullet home to get the runner from 3rd on a force out. Runner had to hold up to see if it would be caught, probably got screwed by the "always tag up from third on a fly ball" rule of thumb. I have never seen that before, very cool.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, and fuck the Phils. (And a secondary "FU" to Matt Capps, for suddenly discovering the giving spirit.)

[Frayed Knot]

Piniella and LaGenius had some fun stuff tonight.

- Already down a couple of runs in the 8th, Cubs pitchers load the bases w/no outs. Cards send up a LHB so Lou brings in a LHP (his only one as it turns out).
- LHP (Marshall) gets his guy but now a RHP is up. So Lou brings in Heilman but sends Marshall out to LF to replace Soriano. Heilman then Ks his guy
- Due up next is a StL lefty, so out goes Heilman and in from the OF comes Marshall. A new LFer goes into the field.
- So now LaRussa checks w/the umps to make sure that Marshall has to face at least one batter (since he's a newly brought in pitcher not an existing one) and switches to a RH batter in an attempt to negate Lou's switcheroo
- Batter winds up lining out ... on a diving catch by the newly installed LFer (who falls down while catching it) and the Cards don't score at all.

Cubs lost anyway (they are the Cubs after all).