Braves @ Giants - NLDS IST

[Frayed Knot]

Man, did anyone besides me (even before the fact) hate that Bochy pitching change as much as I did?

Giants have lefty Jonathan Sachez tossing a 1-hit gem thru 7. A lead-off single is followed by a failed sac bunt at which point Cox then sends up the righty swinging Troy Glaus (who did all his hitting this year, it seems, prior to about June 15th) in place of Rick Ankiel. Bochy then comes out of the dugout at a gallop to pull Sanchez for his RH reliever Sergio Romo. OK, Romo's had a decent year, except that Cox immediately yanks Glaus in favor of the lefty-swinging Eric Hinske and Bochy is now check-mated. That Hinske followed with a 2R HR to erase the 1-0 SF lead almost served him right.


Braves now trying to close out the 9th with rookie (21 ML IPs) Craig Kimbrel in the absence of Wagner.
Billy the Kid was officially removed from the roster today in favor of T. Saito (not sure why he was left off intially).

[Frayed Knot]

Kimbrel goes: PO, BB, K, 1B and now is himself pulled for one of Cox's myriad of LHPs he has out in his pen (Michael Dunn).

So it's 1st & 2nd, 2 outs. Aubrey Huff up.

[Frayed Knot]

SINGLE ... TIE GAME !!!!

[Frayed Knot]

Giants win 3-2 with two of their runs (including the game winner) coming directly off errors by Brooks Conrad (sounds like a secret agent) their all-purpose guy playing 2B today as Omar Infante covers 3B in the absence of the injured Martin Prado.
And not that we know for sure what really would have happened but Los Bravos missed Billy Wags today.

Giants starters so far: 3 games; 23 IP; 1 ER (reliever allowed an inherited to score); 11 hits ... and they were within a 9th inning error of going down 2 games to 1

IF they advance that pitching is going to be a bitch for anyone.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Frayed Knot wrote: IF they advance that pitching is going to be a bitch for anyone.

And they've still got Bumgartner in reserve.

If they can get ANY hitting whatsoever, this team can take out Philadelphia. (Of course... we KNOW Philadelphia's got an offense.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wagner letting down the Braves in their hour of need is about the only thing that's gone right by my rooting interest this whole postseason so far.

F baseball, it's killing me.

[metirish]

What's with Brian Wilson's beard?, he looks like Will Ferrell playing James Lipton.

[Frayed Knot]

Looks face doesn't it?



Farewell Mr. Cox. Your Braves just couldn't hit.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Listened to the end of that game on my run, on a station I'd never heard of -- 970 am, as the Jets are on 1050.

Dave O'Brien does a nice job, and that's while dragging Rick Sutcliffe with him.

Hats off to Bobby Cox.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Listened to the end of that game on my run, on a station I'd never heard of -- 970 am, as the Jets are on 1050. Dave O'Brien does a nice job, and that's while dragging Rick Sutcliffe with him. Hats off to Bobby Cox.

Dave is used to dragging ex big leaguers with him , his telecasts with Seaver used to be painful at times.

[Frayed Knot]

Sutcliffe is one of my least favorite announcers.

Dick Stockton on TV for this series seems to know baseball and has great announcer pipes but was very mistake prone on seemingly routine stuff.
AND THE BRAVES TIE THE GAME !!! .... umm, no Dick, they just went ahead.

[G-Fafif]

Taut if not flawless series. Four one-run games, two that turned on a dime. I feel sorry for Mets fans who are ducking this postseason or simply can't be bothered.

Baseball. Period.

[Benjamin Grimm]

G-Fafif wrote: I feel sorry for Mets fans who are ducking this postseason or simply can't be bothered.

No need to feel sorry. The reason I'm not watching is because of lack of interest. If I miss a dozen great games, I don't mind at all.

[G-Fafif]

/removing BG from sympathy list

[Gwreck]

G-Fafif wrote: I feel sorry for Mets fans who are ducking this postseason

Any sympathy for the Braves fans who were ducking the postseason? Attendance 44,532 at Turner Field last night. Thousands of empty seats.

[MFS62]

They heard there were tickets available in Tampa Bay.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Actually, Tampa has 'un-tarped' a section of the park in order to open up 5,000 or so more seats for tonight's game. Those are probably the available ones.

[Fman99]

Gwreck wrote: G-Fafif wrote: I feel sorry for Mets fans who are ducking this postseason Any sympathy for the Braves fans who were ducking the postseason? Attendance 44,532 at Turner Field last night. Thousands of empty seats.

Losers. They should move the entire team to a city that'd sell out a playoff game, for fuck's sake.