OOTS - Weekend Edition

[Guest sharpie]

7th inning in Dodgers/Cubs game and Jerry Hairston Jr. has a single, triple and homer for the Dodgers. Would be cool if he gets the double so that both Hairstons do the cycle in the same season.

[Frayed Knot]

Alas, Jerry Jr ended the day with just three hits. Certainly would have been a first though.



Nats & Phils are tied in extras.
It seems a bit creepy that I find myself pulling for the Phils here.



Braves (Hudson) gave up 5 in the 1st to the Rox. Now the Braves are winning.

[Edgy MD]

I did some digging. Looks like they would indeed have been the first. Neither of the Waners did it. Neither of the Aarons. None of the Delahantys. Neither of the Boones. Neither of the Gwynns.

I got one of the Muesels. (Bob did it thrice.) One of the Dimagges (Joe, twice). Ken Boyer, but not Clete (or Cloyd). Joe Torre, but not Frank. Vlad -- but not Wilton --- Guerrero. Steven --- but not J.D. --- Drew.

[Frayed Knot]

And certainly not in the same week.


Meanwhile, after we were busy fucking up things in the 8th, the Braves won in extras, the Nats won in extras, and the Marlins won in extras.
Actually we can't even blame it all on the 8th, not when you get shut out in 8 of the 9 innings, manage mostly singles (2 2Bs) and then erase three of the 12 base-runners you do get via two GiDPs + a CS. The pitching and defense just adds to all that.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, you're onto the problem. It's the we've-done-enough-ism. You get to the seventh inning with a lead, then it's the bullpen's job. Bull. You've got to keep hammering. Pick the bullpen up. I'll remember Jerry lamenting that "That's on the eighth-inning guy" 'til the day I die.

[Frayed Knot]

Friday the Rox took a 1st inning lead of 5-0 before giving all back to the Braves and losing in extras
Today they had a 6-0 lead after two and have given it all back.
8-8 in the 7th and it's about to get worse.



Nats thumped Worley & the Phils 7-1

[Frayed Knot]

Braves wound up winning Sat night's game 13-9 following waits for a fan who had gotten smoked by a foul ball and then an 8th inning rain delay.
That's now three wins for them where they've come back from 5 or more runs down ... since Wednesday!

Wed: Down 6-0 to Halladay & the Phils in the 5th - won 15-13 in 11 (a 4:00 game)
Fri: Down 5-0 in the 1st in Colorado - won 9-8 in 11 (also 4 hours even)
Sat: Down 6-0 after 2 - won 13-9 (3: 27 - not counting two separate delays)

Naturally on Thursday they got shut-out in 2 hours, 2 minutes

[Gwreck]

Great game in Boston. Game goes to the 16th and the Orioles are out of pitchers, so they bring in their DH Chris Davis to pitch; he's throwing as fast as 90! Strikes out Saltalamacchia. Allows a couple of baserunners but the potential winning run is cut down at the plate.

Top of the 17th and the Red Sox are also out of pitchers, so their DH Darnell McDonald (he ran for Ortiz several innings earlier) comes in to pitch. First batter Wilson Betemit gets on and is caught stealing. No matter, because a couple more guys get on and Adam Jones crushes a three run homer over the Green Monster.

But Davis is now out to try to end it and get the win in the bottom of the 17th...

[Gwreck]

Update: Davis puts a couple guys on by strikes out Adrian Gonzalez and then gets opposing pitcher Darnell McDonald to ground into a double play to end the game. Orioles win.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wow. That's a sweep at Fenway for your first place O's.

[Frayed Knot]

And that completes the sweep for Baltimore in Boston (probably the first one in like half a century or so) and makes the O's 5-1 against the Yanx & Sawx this past week.

[Frayed Knot]

Nats-Phils Sunday Night game has the potential to get a bit hairy.

Hamels drilled Bryce Harper square in the back on the first pitch
Then when Hamels came to bat an inning later he was hit with the first pitch.

btw, Harper went on to score the game's only run so far - by stealing home

[Frayed Knot]

I figured that between the dueling HBPs and what must be a frustrated Phils squad this game could get out of hand, but no further fireworks as the Phils are currently tacking onto their lead in the top ninth (4-1 and still batting ... oops, now 5-1, ... now 7-1 on Pence's 2 2R HR of the game).

But the big news is that Jayson Werth rolled over on his wrist while trying for a sliding catch and looks like he hurt it bad. Looked a lot like the play where H. Matsui did the same thing a couple years back when he was still with the Yanx. He wound up out for the season.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Gwreck wrote: Update: Davis puts a couple guys on by strikes out Adrian Gonzalez and then gets opposing pitcher Darnell McDonald to ground into a double play to end the game. Orioles win.

Pity he fucked his batting average in the process.

[Ceetar]

ELIAS: Last player before Chris Davis to go 0-8 and be the winning pitcher in a game was HOFer Rube Waddell, July 4, 1905 PHI Athletics.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: But the big news is that Jayson Werth rolled over on his wrist while trying for a sliding catch and looks like he hurt it bad. Looked a lot like the play where H. Matsui did the same thing a couple years back when he was still with the Yanx. He wound up out for the season.

Reports on Yahoo sports this morning say the wrist is broken.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Ceetar wrote: ELIAS: Last player before Chris Davis to go 0-8 and be the winning pitcher in a game was HOFer Rube Waddell, July 4, 1905 PHI Athletics.

It's all about the Rubes.

[Frayed Knot]

BA: The last time two clubs used hitters on the mound [in the same game] came in the nightcap of an Oct. 4, 1925 doubleheader between the Browns and the Tigers. Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and George Sisler pitched against each other, with Cobb recording a save by working a perfect inning.

[Edgy MD]

Sisler broke in as a pitcher. He'd continue to take the mound to bail his team out every three or four years for the rest of his career.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm not sure why Ike (a mid-90s fastball/slider guy at ASU) hasn't done this yet for Metsie.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Especially since he's been hitting like a pitcher.

[Ceetar]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'm not sure why Ike (a mid-90s fastball/slider guy at ASU) hasn't done this yet for Metsie.

Probably because the most recent time the Mets got close to needing a position player recently was two days before his debut.

[Gwreck]

Having a position player pitch was certainly an option for the 9th inning in Colorado last week.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

To name ONE example. (There have been a few times.)

[Ceetar]

I'm going with the running out of bodies way. Though I guess laughers like that work too although it always seems like most managers prefer not to do 'gimmicky' things like that.