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He loses the shutout as Beltran corrals that deep fly, and Councell tags.

ewww--lead off double. Only the Dbacks 3rd hit. Feliciano will get warm again, but El Duque will rock on. Gets a ground out, and the runner moves to third. The shutout would be nice.

Frayed Knot wrote: Ah hell, throw El Ducky out there for the 9th too. It's not like we're looking to save his arm for future years or anything! Ha! I agree,.... for different reasons.

Milledge hits it so hard it becomes an automated out. And ElDuke,...well,...he dont have to hit tonight. He Ks.

And there are no outs with the bases loaded. Chavez with an RBI baseknock! And- bases still loaded with no out for the rook.

Val with the RBI single!

Edgy DC wrote: Gonzalez appears to be literally not thinking. Well, he dont show any motor skills.

LoDuca erases the runner. niiiii-hice.

Settle down ElDuke. Ya got a nice lead.

Hey! Milledge can juggle too

Chavez with a 2 RBI single! Nice. I like Valentin taken that extra base too.

2 run BLAST!

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Two seconds after Howie Rose talks about El Duque's no hitter, he gives up a hit. The gods of baseball dont fool around. They have an unwritten rule book too. Its an uneventful hit and the Mets are up 1-0 after two.

Nice SK Berkman with two[u:3a34561089] homers[/u:3a34561089] in that Atlanta game. Nice first inning for El Duque. Econimical-quick. I think the "ex-team factor" has to play a part in this game. Edit:kabooms are only for Mets, my bad.

sharpie wrote: ]King said Randazzo also made contact with him, although that couldn't be verified through replay because the game wasn't televised or taped. I didn't know there were games anymore that aren't televised somewhere. I was surprised about this too. Guess those smaller market teams dont generate enough interest for even local stations to carry them. I think this ump should face a suspension and I think the umps in general should have to answer to somebody for actions like this.

This is what Im talkin about with umps today.^ >:[ Can an umpire be suspended?

Home plate umpire chest-bumps Rockies skipper Hurdle June 7, 2006 CBS SportsLine.com wire reports DENVER -- Home plate umpire Tony Randazzo chest-bumped Colorado manager Clint Hurdle after walking up the first-base line, where Randazzo confronted Rockies reliever Ray King in the ninth inning Wednesday. Both King and Hurdle were ejected by Randazzo, who met King about 40 feet from home plate after the left-hander was pulled in favor of Jose Mesa with one out. King, who was angered that he wasn't getting the high strike, took offense to Randazzo's walking up the line and said something that got him tossed. King said Randazzo also made contact with him, although that couldn't be verified through replay because the game wasn't televised or taped. Randazzo clearly bumped Colorado's manager, however, when Hurdle hollered at him over King's ejection. Hurdle pointed to the crowd as if to say he had thousands of witnesses, then angrily motioned at Randazzo with both hands in a bring-it-on gesture. There was no further contact, however, and Hurdle and King both went to the clubhouse as Mesa got the final two outs in Colorado's 16-9 win over Pittsburgh that featured 11 pitchers, 16 walks and 364 pitches, 155 of which were balls. Randazzo didn't comment before leaving Coors Field following the game that lasted almost 3� hours in nearly 100-degree heat. "I'm not taking questions. We have a plane to catch," crew chief Joe West said. Hurdle declined to discuss his run-in with Randazzo. "Oh, it's just hot out," Hurdle said. "It's hot. Long day." Pressed, Hurdle replied: "What happens on the field stays on the field." Not according to King, who criticized Randazzo for a "mystery strike zone" all afternoon and for walking up the first base line, which he perceived as confrontational, while the left-hander was walking back to his dugout in the ninth. "This guy, Tony Randazzo, behind the plate today was totally out of line," King said. "Like I told Joe West, this guy's walking up the line. He shouldn't have walked up the line. He gets right up in your face hoping I'd agitate him." King said he should have been given the courtesy of an answer, and not attitude, when he asked Randazzo why a couple of pitches weren't called strikes. "We just got a memo the other day saying umpires are going to call that pitch right there. I felt like that was a strike and I'm asking where it is," King said. King produced a memo in the clubhouse that he said all teams got in spring training informing pitchers that while the strike zone wouldn't be called wide this season, the pitch at the bottom of the letters would be called a strike. "Don't get mad at me when I ask you about it," King said. "If they say they're going to call that pitch, call it." Asked what Randazzo said to him, King replied: "Some adult words." King said he didn't recall what was said between the home plate umpire and his manager because "I was kind of heated at that moment, so I didn't really see what was going on." "Joe West made a comment like, 'Clint, it's your job to keep your players in line,' (and) I told Joe West, 'You're the crew chief. Your job is to keep your crew in line,"' King recounted.

Woodward: .1 LoDuca: .1 Beltran: 1.7 Wright: 2 Franco: .3 Valentin: .3 Milledge: 5 Bradford: .1 Heilman: .2 Wagner: .2

Great short notice KTE Gwreck.

YEAAAAAHESSSSSSSSSSSSS. Wags saves Glavines 9th win. 9 wins for Glavine a week into June. I never would have figured on that. Amazin'

Two quick outs for Billy, and now he has to face that slugger Furcal.

I wont start threatening Wags until he lets a man reach.

Wright gets gunned down tryin to steal 2nd. Very nice throw down there to nab him.

Frayed Knot wrote: Willie says that he thinks Endy's arm is a tick better. Willie says alot of things. :\

Boy, the Milledge homer looks even bigger now, as the Dodgers score again. That throw out of Nomar too. Mets up 9-7.