kurtsimonw Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 2 more wins for the Cards please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 The "funny" thing is. If the Yanks are eliminated today, you can't blame the pitching but rather the combined (lack of) production from A-Rod and Tex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 This past year, Major League pitching has had a shadow cast over it by one man and five syllables: Just-in Ver-land-er. He is a beast. Consistently hit triple digits with his fastball from inning 1 through inning 8 last night. The likes of Cano, A-Rod, Tex and Swisher just couldn't get anywhere near him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 He is quite amazing. Lead the league in wins, strikeouts, WHIP and H/9 and had 6 games with 7+ innings and 3 or less hits. Including that 1-walk no-hitter in Toronto. BEAST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 The Rangers beat the Rays 4-3 in Florida and wrap up the series 3-1 despite TB's early success in Arlington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NibblyPig Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Cards lose at home to the Phillies. 2-1 Philadelphia in that NLDS clash. Big game coming up. Come on, you Tigers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Yankees 2-0 up on a double by Jeter. AJ struggled badly and walked the bases loaded in the first but was rescued by a great leaping catch from Granderson. He's settled down nicely since, but let's see what happens as we head to the bottom of the fourth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 And seconds later, V-Mart hammers a long ball to right center to lead off the fourth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Then the Yankees add two in the top of the fifth. Avoid an implosion from AJ and this is looking good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 5 2/3 of one-run ball from AJ has to be considered very, very good for the Yankees. Granderson with another great catch to end the sixth, diving to get Peralta's drive to left center off Soriano with a man on first. Huge out for the Yankees. So-Ro-Mo rarely give up three through 7-8-9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 This is heading back to NYC as the Yankees send 11 batters to the plate and score six in the eighth. You have to be optimistic about game five as the offense is starting to look very good again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 It's all very much still alive in the LDSs. Both Arizona and St. Louis have managed to take the series back to Minnesota and Philly respectively, and tonight we have game five between the Yankees and Tigers in the Bronx. <3October<3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NibblyPig Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Get in. (Sorry, Mich!) Think I'll be supporting the Brewers from here on in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 A win tonight for STL and I can enjoy post-season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Get in. (Sorry, Mich!) Think I'll be supporting the Brewers from here on in. Yeah, I'm with you on that. Milwaukee never wins anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanpabloangel18 Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 splattered yanks. I've been playing MLB2K11 on xbox360 to death recently, a superb game. you can pick it up for about a tenner second hand off amazon etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Get in. (Sorry, Mich!) Think I'll be supporting the Brewers from here on in. That's alright Like I said earlier, we're out not because of the pitching but because of the offensive (lack of) performance from the supposed big bats of A-Rod, Tex and Swisher. The teams production with RISP last night just wasn't worthy of a place in the ALCS. I have no beef with Nova for giving up back to back solos in the first. He's a rookie and he had a problem with his forearm. I'm okay with the disappointing performance of CC in this series, because of the circumstances with the suspended game one. I have no ill-feelings towards Joe Girardi. It wasn't his fault. I am in awe of the great work our bullpen does day in and day out, as am I hugely impressed by Brett Gardner's performance and how gracefully Jorge Posada has ended his years of brilliant service to the Yankees. I am positive Robinson Cano is going to be the best player in baseball. But I have hardly ever been mooe disappointed in another person in my adult life as I am in Alex Rodriguez right now. Yes, he's suffered injuries but frickin hell what a shower of shite this series has been from a guy we still owe 30 mill/year until 2017! Even with the bases loaded with one out, I had no confidence in us scoring with Alex at the plate. What levels of suckitude can you take from a guy who's supposed to be the best player in baseball? **** me, if this guy is the reason we end up trading Jesus Montero because we can't find a place for him in the line-up I'll kill myself. Fair play to the Tigers for earning their place in the ALCS. I still feel the Yankees are the better side, but not in this series. Detroit were smarter and did better in the clutch. Good luck to them, they've deserved it. Oh well, at least I can go back to sleeping in the night now. And maybe take up jogging. Go Brew Crew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 7, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted October 7, 2011 1903 in the life of erratic pitcher Rube Waddell, cataloged by Cooperstown historian Lee Allen: “He began that year sleeping in a firehouse in Camden, New Jersey, and ended it tending bar in a saloon in Wheeling, West Virginia. In between those events he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics, played left end for the Business Men’s Rugby Football Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt, courted, married and became separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts, saved a woman from drowning, accidentally shot a friend through the hand, and was bitten by a lion.” And that was just 1903. In one game against the Athletics, Waddell was at bat in the eighth inning with two out and a tying run on second. The catcher threw to second, trying to pick off the runner, but overthrew, and the ball went into the outfield. The runner took off for home. As he rounded third, the center fielder hurled the ball in to home plate … … and Waddell, to everyone’s horror, knocked it out of the park. He was declared out for interference. “They’d been feeding me curves all afternoon,” he told a flabbergasted Connie Mack, “and this was the first straight ball I’d looked at!” Futility Closet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 ^^Great anecdote On a side note, Connie Mack managed the Athletics for fifty (yes fifty) years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Good story that, Mike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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