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Blame Canada, game two

Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2007 11:05 pm
by Three34
FOSSUM

OHKA

IT'S THE MLB, right here, on [insert whatever the channel's called].

Fossum makes his debut since the surgery. I've never seen the guy pitch in my life so hopefully he does that flippy thing.

Baldelli back in center field, Wigginton DH'ing, Carlos Pena starts at first, hitting second for some reason. Brendan Harris gives Zobrist (1-13 so far) the night off, and hits 8th with Upton 9th.

Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2007 11:17 pm
by Three34
Navarro just got hit right in the misters in the first batter of the game. That was fun. Although maybe not to him.

Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2007 11:19 pm
by Three34
Well, they're down 1-0 early. Hit batsman, single up the middle, sacrifice fly. Hmm. Oh well.

Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2007 11:22 pm
by Three34
Oh dear.

Frank Thomas htis a single to left and the Jays have first and third with 1 out. Glaus hits a crappy chopper to short, a double play ball, Harris throws it to Upton.....which he drops under no pressure from the bloody slow Thomas. So now it's 2-0 with 2 on and 1 out, whereas they coulda been out of the inning.

Upton's first ever error at second, Rays first of the year. D'oh.

Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2007 11:29 pm
by Three34
Carl Crawford just homers on the first pitch Ohka throws.

:rockon:

See? You can still drive in RBI's when leading off.

Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2007 11:47 pm
by Three34
Well, that fell aart quickly. Down 6-1 and sill in the second. An infield single, another hit batter, and I forgot what the other was. Even Royce Clayton hit Fossum hard, albeit straight to Akinori Iwamura.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 12:04 am
by Three34
Hey, I just realised that's Jason Phillips. Cool! I liked him when he was a backup Met catcher. Always looked hard, with the shades and the beard and that.

Anyway, he just got thrown out nonchalantly turning a single into a double. So that was fun. Still down big though.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 12:11 am
by Three34
Royce Clayton just hit an opposite field lead off double. For those who can't interpret what that means - it means Fossum is throwing cack tonight.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 12:13 am
by Three34
HOWEVER - things just got better.

Johnson doubles in Clayton off two pitches, and the Rays are down 7-1, BUT this gets Gary Glover off the bench and warming up.

Good times.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 12:32 am
by Three34
Holy balls! Brendan Harris has opposite field power!

Suddenly it's a 7-4 game. I cite Gary Glover as the reason.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 12:36 am
by Three34
Make that 7-5. Ohka gives Upton a wild walk, Crawford double shim across with a bit of a lucky double, and then Ohka throws a wild pitch to score BJ.

Pena then ends the inning with his third meek grounder of the game, but it's now a game again.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 3:17 am
by Bleeding Green
You need to go recruit some more fans. Iwamura is an enigma. He's like Ichiro!

Wow, when did Tampa get Carlos Pena? I like him a lot.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 4:13 am
by Three34
Non roster invite to spring training. One of the last cuts, but didn't make it. Then Greg Norton hurt himself so Pena came straight back. And he was frankly bollocks tonight.

Tampa kinda rolled over and died in this one, squandering a 2 on nobody out situation in the 8th. And then Lugo gave up a compulsory run in the 9th. But hey, Gary Glover's good!

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 1:47 pm
by craig01
Sham wrote:Non roster invite to spring training. One of the last cuts, but didn't make it. Then Greg Norton hurt himself so Pena came straight back. And he was frankly bollocks tonight.

Tampa kinda rolled over and died in this one, squandering a 2 on nobody out situation in the 8th. And then Lugo gave up a compulsory run in the 9th. But hey, Gary Glover's good!


I hate it when you give up the out in that situation. Killed to mo.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 2:17 pm
by OSBB
I was at the game last night again, Baldelli needs to get his **** straight.

And I'm going to the game again today, looks like you'll be talking to yourself agin Sham.

Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2007 3:00 pm
by Three34
That's OK, I couldn't think of anyone more suited for the job.

Baldelli at least hit two warning trackers so despite being 1-12 or whatever it is, so at least he's close to getting hits. If that makes sense.

Brendan Harris has already achieved more than Tomas Perez, so that's nice.

I still don't get why BJ Upton is supposed to such hot smeg. He can't hit a low or high pitch save for occasional choppers, and he has little or no power.