Ah good to look at the schedule and not see an AL Central Team!!! Cubbies for 3 games starting today and then the Cards for the weekend! Terry
8) We know the feeling. We have the Dbacks in LA tonight... If we never see that friggen AL Central again it will be too soon. We weren't the only Custer clones riding through there. The Twins have won 20 of the last 22 and they're still miles out of first place!
8) Ahhhhh yes... Back home in the NL West. We slaughtered the Dbacks and their pitchers hit Nomar THREE TIMES! The last one was thrown behind him and both the pitcher and AZ manager were ejected... ...........Home Sweet Home............DD
YES! 2 out of 3 vs the Cubs and shoulda been 3 out of 3, right now Roy Oswalt is looking for a lawyer to sue his team for non-support! But tonights hero was a guy with an under rated arm....Lance Berkman, threw out two Cards on the basepaths from Right Field tonight. How many teams have an All-Star caliber player like Lance who allows the manager to play him in left, right and 1st base depending on the need. Most players at Lances level would scream bloody murder. Bonus, Braves beat the Reds tonight. NL Central may suck, but it's going to be a exciting race to the end apparently!! Terry
Nomar got hit two more times against the Giants tonight. That's FIVE times that he's been hit by the pitch by NL West pitchers in the last three days... A Grassy Knoll coincidence? I don't think so. When will Grady Little retaliate? He had his pitchers hit Shawn Green on the final at-bat Tuesday, but then the Dbacks benched Green to protect him on Wednesday. Now the Giants are doing it to Nomar... :twisted:
One of my favorite plays in baseball, the RF throwing guys out. Berkman did it twice in one game, at 2nd and 3rd base. The throw to 3rd was in the air all the way. I saw both plays. Beautiful!
The 2nd throw to get Edmonds at 2nd base was a no look throw to boot!! BTW, did you guys know that Lance Berkman now has a nick name? Boston has Big Papi, the Astros now have the Big Puma!! Local radio station guys started it and it's catching on around Houston. Did you watch the Cardinals broadcast of the game? Did you see those bunts? 1 the Cards misplayed and Everitt beat it out for a hit and the other 2 were pathetic. One dumped a couple of feet in front of the plate and the Card catcher jumped on it and the got the lead runner. The other one was a pop-up. Would you have called Burke for interference on that play if the pitcher hadn't been able to get to it? I thought the catcher was doing a flop and that Burke was just trying to get to first base. Terry
Terry, Yes, the throw to second was a great spin-around no-look throw. I like the throw to third a bit better since it was like a torpedo - straight at the target and in the air all the way. What an arm he has. IMO, if the ump was going to call Burke for interference, he would have made the call immediately and would have ruled the play dead. JO'Co might correct my perception.
Correct. Interference MUST be called immediately and the play is dead. Evereything stops. .........JO'Co :idea:
Game turned tonight on 2 plays in Center Field. Astro's 2nd baseman/lf/cf Chris Burke misplayed a pop fly that should have been the 3rd out in a scoreless inning and started a Card rally that resulted in 2 runs in a tight 2-0 game. Then later Card CF Jim Edmonds made an incredible catch in CF of Astro's catcher Eric Munsons blast to deep, deep, deep CF. For those of you unaware of a unique feature in the Astros CF, beyond the warning track is a hill well actually an incline. But never the less you have to run up it to make plays. Now it is in dead CF so it's not that many plays that have been made there. But Edmonds who plays a shallow CF, tracked Munsons blast with his back to the ball when he crossed the warning track he gave a look down to confirm where he was, then picked the ball up again comming over his right shoulder ran up the hill, falling down caught the ball back now completely turned to the field and in his up turned glove. Better play than Willie Mays low those many years ago in Cleveland! If he doesn't make the catch Astro's Preston Wilson scores from 2nd and most likely Munson ends up on 2nd. Game would be 4-3. Or maybe 3-2 if Burke makes the other play! Terry
Like Joe Mauer, Jimmy Edmonds was a High School All-American quarterback, who turned down offers from nearly every college in the nation to play pro baseball with the Angels, which was the team closest to his house. He played around here at Diamond Bar HS... :idea:
I like Edmonds. He seems to me to be as old school as they come. Was Willie Mays' catch in Cleveland or in the Polo Grounds? All these years, when I see a replay of it, I think of it as being in the Polo Grounds.
Good Point Sid, I know it was in 1954 and vs the Cleveland Indians...don't remember who hit it..and it probably was the Polo Grounds.
My memory for trivia is not good, but I think I recall this one. I believe it was Vic Wertz of the Indians. Someone out there can confirm or correct.
In contrast to my fading, burnt-out memory brain cells, yours is still hitting on all 8 cylinders, Sid! From Wikpedia:
Boy that Card pitcher Reyes is one odd looking duck. His hip hop flat brim hat, those uggggggggggglly red horizontal stripes on his socks, the ugly shoes, and he's from USC. I'd be afraid if he followed me out of the mall that I was going to be robbed.
Agree.. <t>On Reyes and that goofy look. The kid can pitch and will be in the Cards rotation the rest of the year and the future. Watched him and Prior throw in a series here with Houston when they were at USC. Yikes that was nasty.</t>
8) The photo doesn't tell a modern fan exactly why Willie Mays catch of Vic Wertz drive in the 1954 World Series was the greatest play of all-time. Take a look at the layout of the Polo Grounds in New York where the catch was made. They had been playing major league baseball at the Polo Grounds since the late 1880's and any park designed less than 20 years after the Civil War was bound to be an odd place by modern standards. Please note: when he made the catch, he was nearly 500ft from home plate... The catch came with one out in the 8th inning of a 2-2 tie with runners on 1st and 2nd, and saved the game for the Giants. After making the catch, Mays whirled in one motion and fired a strike to 2nd base which prevented the runner on 1st from tagging and advancing to scoring position. The bomb brought out the hook for the Giants pitcher Don Liddle, who kept his sense of humor. As he handed the ball to the new pitcher, Marv Grissom, he said, "Well, I got my man."