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I'm going to the game tonight live and in person, so before I leave I'm posting so that interested parties may carry on some stimulating discussion during tonight's Rockies-Padres deathmatch. Supporters of any and all MLB clubs are welcome, but no being mean.
But I've come around. Good story, interesting team... and of course, Toaster Camaraderie. Go Rocks!
GO ROX!!!
If he gets a hit, then no problem at all.
I believe if Jake Peavy strikes out 5 or more, he will lead the majors in strike outs.
And he is going for win number 20, which I think would be the first NL pitcher to reach that mark in two years.
Only 2 Padre pitchers have had 20-win seasons: Randy Jones, 20 in 1975 and 22 in 1976, and Gaylord Perry won 21 in 1978.
Peavy and Maddux are the only pitchers on the Padres with 10+ wins. Francis and Fogg are the only pitchers with 10+ wins on the Rockies.
The Washington Nationals had no pitcher win 10 games nor a pitcher lose 10 this season! That had never happened before. Jon Rauch led with 8 wins and Matt Chico led with 9 losses.
B. Giles RF
Hairston LF
Kouzmanoff 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Greene SS
Bard C
Blum 2B
Clark CF
Peavy P
Rockies:
Matsui 2B
Tulowitzki SS
Holliday LF
Helton 1B
Atkins 3B
Hawpe RF
Spilborghs CF
Torrealba C
Fogg P
Good luck!
vr, Xei
So it's basically a toss up I guess. I don't know man, but when Peavy is on (extra adrenaline tonight one would imagine) he can absolutely be SICK hopefully there 1st base coach goes all Mariano Duncan on Peavy...
It just feels so right.
Or something totally different than that. :)
Enjoy the game.
vr, Xei
It is hard to believe that the four NL playoff managers will be Charlie Manuel, Bob Melvin, Lou Pinella and, possibly, Clint Hurdle.
Hope I'm wrong!
Colorado 117
San Diego 113
He's got a good one but he also MAXIMIZES (maximum effort I guess) his throws all the time I wouldn't suggest that if I were his coach or dad...
Except in Denver.
Or when Juan Pierre plays center.
Or when Juan Pierre plays center in Denver, which will hopefully happen more than 81 times next year.
The Rockies used to have BOTH Juan Pierre AND Tom Goodwin in the outfield.
Scary thought.
Davey Johnson would have had a stroke if he were the Denver skipper.
He's running out to buy a TV now.
The one with the (really bad) offense.
Who the hell is competing with him?
with any luck Brad Penny could have won at least 1 or 2 more games but like you said, he ran a little out of steam in the end.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Aren't you happy?
With 8 runs in 2 and a half innings, that has a chance to fall.
And it was a day game in L.A. And it was reportedly very hot and very smoggy.
I'm conflicted. I was rooting for the Padres because of Depo, but I wasn't really rooting for them over the Rockies. I was rooting for them over the NL East teams.
Helton helps his own cause.
The NL West is now the Andy Tracy Division.
Slim pickings for players who spent their entire career with Arizona.
Good point. Rockies-Phillies should be much more exciting than Padres-Phillies.
mmm, the fryers ...
I'm nostalgic so I could of dig it...
Player, Year (HR/R/RBI)
Caminiti, 1996 (40/109/130)
Vaughn, 1998 (50/112/119)
Klesko, 2001 (30/105/113)
Gonzalez, 2007 (30/101/100 so far)
These 4 players are also the only Padres in history to have 100 runs & RBI (no HR threshold).
that's pretty crazy, I though this was a playoff game!?
106 I like Vaughn, if only because I drafted him in my fantasy baseball league that year for $1, and before the pick I announced "this is the pick of the draft."
I wonder what Orsillo knows about the NL West. I'm guessing very little.
"Ooh! Ooh! Let me try! Ooh!"
http://tinyurl.com/2rctfc
That's syndication territory no? (nation wide channel etc..) but I'm not a t.v. noeth...
let it be known that Gonzalez did not hit his 30/100/100 in 162 games.
Correct. This is Gonzales's 161st game of the year.
I assume they had to do that because the Rockies are wearing black shirts.
At least the Rockies aren't wearing purple.
So, yes: 166 games for Juan Pierre! Hell, 170 games! Rack 'em up!
What does he know of the National League period, much less the NL West? Is he even aware there's baseball west of NY?
At least, there shouldn't be.
D'oh...
There is the odd chance that a team could have three tie games, but changes in the rules have made ties nearly impossible.
Nor steel prints on shoulder pads or puke green uniforms in football.
Orsillo I believe won the Essex County Sean McDonough Sound Alike Contest™.
Jose Cruz batted leadoff for the Padres in one of the games against the Red Sox. And Russell Branyan was in left.
I'm o.k with the mustard colored ones specially on turn the clock nights, they look pretty cool.
I like the purple used to trim the home whites and road grays. A solid purple jersey is a horrendous idea.
ps check it out [ http://www.mopupduty.com/whitesox1976a.jpg ]
That must have been awful. Few people realize how much smog has been reduced in the Southern California area.
Denver is just as smoggy as L.A. now.
you rock on, seth smith!
1768 AB .311/.372/.504
That was his first major league extra base hit.
This is not Brady Clark's best inning of defense.
OK, so maybe the Dodgers were better off with Juan Pierre in center.
Okay, I'm leaving work. Good luck!
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/Eykz
The last one was Mike Morgan.
Time to be afraid.
http://tinyurl.com/2tfcy6
Meanwhile, what a great game!
Dick Stockton and Ron Darling (a late addition) will do the Arizona-Chicago series.
Ted Robinson and Steve Stone will work the Angels-Red Sox series.
Chip Caray, Bob Brenly, and Tony Gwynn will work the Yankees-Indians series.
Somebody that gets paid to know that stuff said that!!?? as a baseball viewer I would have been insulted by that (depending on the mood I was in, of course)
He's had three triples this year.
No Padre has ever hit for the cycle.
Unless they get a lot of guys on in the 8th. And I've seen the Padres come up with a few late-inning rallies.
The Padres have won 10 games when trailing going to the 8th and 7 when trailing when heading to the 9th.
I don't think I am going to like Stockton doing baseball.
Dick Stockton did a nice call of Fisk's home run in the 1975 World Series, but he hasn't called baseball in a long time.
His call of Fisk's 1975 WS HR was pretty low key -- "If it stays fair...home run."
I'm sure the TBS announcing search was from a combination of talent and availability, mostly the latter.
He was probably jealous cause we have a SICK farm system, although there young'uns aren't to shaby either, I'm still a little annoyed he said that though, not cool, SPECIALLY for a paid professional!
Is William Zantzinger coming in to relieve?
I thought Steve Lyons was going to have playoff games with TBS as well? (that's what I remember somebody saying)
Regardless of his performance today, Peavy should win the CYA anyway. I'm just saying.
Who does he attack?
The seats behind it are green and the fence is predominantly green as well.
I think the tipoff that the ball didn't cross the fence was the fact that you could see a woman in a wheelchair making the universal "darn it!" symbol when the ball bounced back.
They should have hit for him in the 6th.
The MVP vote is going to be very close in the NL.
I assume it will be either Rollins or Holliday.
I remember when David Wright was a candidate. I remember it like it was just two weeks ago.
Orsillo - Red Sox
Simpson - Braves
Perhaps that's the Colorado dialect.
I missed a couple of innings, the visual sounds priceless!
-8th inning
-down one run
-Brady Clark batting
Barrett to follow, with the top of the order coming up after him.
Raises hand.
Vishal hates all things Giles Elder if I remember correctly
There has never been a one game playoff that went to extra innings.
not to make excuses for Holliday but it probably also had some tailing action on it also.
The Rockies led the majors in sacrifices this year with 83.
He had 51. Brandon Webb had 50.
Living on the East Coast, you are spared from excessive exposure to the mysterious managerial machinations of Clint Hurdle.
Clint loves sacrifices.
Heath Bell is now at 17 assists, 5 behind Beimel's 22 (in only 67 IP!).
Wow I never thought Cal R. would start to look like Uncle Fester. Must be a bald thing.
The Rockies do bunt well. Except for Matsui, who is supposed to be a great bunter because he's Japanese.
They like to destroy stereotypes.
Speaking of East Coast perspectives.
Black must have no faith in Brocail or Kevin Cameron.
there trying to bust a Eric Gagne surca a few years a go.
I've always felt he looks more like what Broxton would look like if he were to lose a few.
Yeah, they could put it in ice cream. Yeah, that would be a good flavor.
Coffee Bell Crunch.
Wouldn't they?
I think we nuked the record, Daniel.
Yeah, I still have trouble with this NL pinch hitting for the pitcher thing. Confusing.
Jorge Julio?
The 1962 season went 165 games.
308 That might be the difference in the game.
Dodger fans reflexively react to the year 1962 even if we weren't born then.