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There are few baseball things I like more than the prospect of hanging an L on this balloonhead who is pitching for the Marlins tonight.
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I'm no fashion expert, but I think Giancarlo would look really good in red.
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FSN Miami announcer: "If you're a lefthanded reliever and three lefties, including the pitcher, get hits off you, it might be time to start worrying about your job."
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If Garcia is hurt badly, I'm going to scream.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
If Garcia is hurt badly, I'm going to scream.
What happened?
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Ok, let's go for a sweep tomorrow. None of this we've-won-the-series-so-now-we-can-relax-crap.
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If Garcia is hurt badly, I'm going to scream.
What happened?
He pulled up running the bases, of all things.
Looked like a hammy or a quad. Hopefully, it was just a cramp.
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If the Pirates have a player named Sean Rodriguez, do you think there's another reverse-ancestral-name guy out there named Miguel Sullivan?
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Could be a productive night. TTTIB is leading the Pirates by three in the eighth, and the Dodgers are ahead of the Cubs, 4-2, after five. But the Cubs are already into the Dodgers' bullpen. Bolsinger needed nearly 100 pitches to get 14 outs.
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Adrian Gonzalez just took a called third strilke to end the top of the sixth inning because the Cardinals hacked into the Astros' computer system.
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Billy Hamilton's batting average is .224. If he tried to bunt every time he comes the plate, do you think he could hit at least .250?
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If Garcia is hurt badly, I'm going to scream.
What happened?
He pulled up running the bases, of all things.
Looked like a hammy or a quad. Hopefully, it was just a cramp.
So after he labored through the 7th, Matheny sent him out to hit in the 8th and Garcia may have hurt himself on the bases???
Weren't you just saying in another thread that Matheny was making fewer bonehead decisions?
FWIW, Goold reporting on Twitter it was a cramp.
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What happened?He pulled up running the bases, of all things.
Looked like a hammy or a quad. Hopefully, it was just a cramp.So after he labored through the 7th, Matheny sent him out to hit in the 8th and Garcia may have hurt himself on the bases???
Weren't you just saying in another thread that Matheny was making fewer bonehead decisions?
FWIW, Goold reporting on Twitter it was a cramp.
He didn't really labor through the 7th. He gave up a couple of hits, but his pitch count was at 90 and you never really got the sense he was losing his grip on the game.
If I have a criticism of Matheny tonight, it's that he didn't start Scruggs coming off a 3-hit game.
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He pulled up running the bases, of all things.
Looked like a hammy or a quad. Hopefully, it was just a cramp.So after he labored through the 7th, Matheny sent him out to hit in the 8th and Garcia may have hurt himself on the bases???
Weren't you just saying in another thread that Matheny was making fewer bonehead decisions?
FWIW, Goold reporting on Twitter it was a cramp.He didn't really labor through the 7th. He gave up a couple of hits, but his pitch count was at 90 and you never really got the sense he was losing his grip on the game.
If I have a criticism of Matheny tonight, it's that he didn't start Scruggs coming off a 3-hit game.
I wasn't watching because Madison had a game, but Horton suggested Garcia had been hit hard in the 7th and was starting to catch too much of the plate. Horton assumed Garcia was done. We stopped to get food, so I didn't hear the 8th.
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I heard on the postgame this is the best start by a team since the 2006 Tigers and 2009 Dodgers. So the Cardinals will either throw the ball away in the World Series or get waxed by the Phillies in the NLCS.
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Im glad to see a story on the post dispatch about the cardinals limiting there young starters. It is to early to claim the division but i think the cardinals are far enough ahead to use some caution. Id like to see a phantom dl trip for each. It would be shades of TLR but it works. What i dont want is the cards most shutdown starts burnt up before post season.
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I'm no fashion expert, but I think Giancarlo would look really good in red.
That would give Thom 18 times every season to say he's not a great player.
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So after he labored through the 7th, Matheny sent him out to hit in the 8th and Garcia may have hurt himself on the bases???
Weren't you just saying in another thread that Matheny was making fewer bonehead decisions?
FWIW, Goold reporting on Twitter it was a cramp.He didn't really labor through the 7th. He gave up a couple of hits, but his pitch count was at 90 and you never really got the sense he was losing his grip on the game.
If I have a criticism of Matheny tonight, it's that he didn't start Scruggs coming off a 3-hit game.
I wasn't watching because Madison had a game, but Horton suggested Garcia had been hit hard in the 7th and was starting to catch too much of the plate. Horton assumed Garcia was done. We stopped to get food, so I didn't hear the 8th.
Giancarlo led off with a single up the middle and someone else got a single later in the inning, but the last two outs were very routine. The Marlins had lefties coming up in the eighth (which is why Choate came in after Garcia got hurt), so what I'm assuming is Matheny would have let Garcia start the inning and pulled him if anyone got on base.
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"get waxed by the Phillies in the NLCS."
If the Phillies end up in the NLCS, I will crawl to Philadelphia on my hands and knees and personally congratulate each player for the greatest in-season turnaround since the 1914 Boston Braves.
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Im glad to see a story on the post dispatch about the cardinals limiting there young starters. It is to early to claim the division but i think the cardinals are far enough ahead to use some caution. Id like to see a phantom dl trip for each. It would be shades of TLR but it works. What i dont want is the cards most shutdown starts burnt up before post season.
I'm still not there yet. I know people have done the math and determined the Cardinals don't even have to play .500 ball for the rest of the season to reach the coveted 90-win mark, but I don't think 90 wins gets you the NL Central this year. I still think the first goal is to win the division, not just make it to the wild card game where someone like Madison Bumgarner or Matt Harvey can single-handedly end your season.
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He didn't really labor through the 7th. He gave up a couple of hits, but his pitch count was at 90 and you never really got the sense he was losing his grip on the game.
If I have a criticism of Matheny tonight, it's that he didn't start Scruggs coming off a 3-hit game.
I wasn't watching because Madison had a game, but Horton suggested Garcia had been hit hard in the 7th and was starting to catch too much of the plate. Horton assumed Garcia was done. We stopped to get food, so I didn't hear the 8th.
Giancarlo led off with a single up the middle and someone else got a single later in the inning, but the last two outs were very routine. The Marlins had lefties coming up in the eighth (which is why Choate came in after Garcia got hurt), so what I'm assuming is Matheny would have let Garcia start the inning and pulled him if anyone got on base.
Not to quibble, but wasn't Stanton's single off the wall? Again, I didn't see it if it's the at-bat I'm remembering it was a single that was nearly a HR.
The other thing I remember thinking was odd was that according to the radio announcers, the only reliever throwing was Choate. With the Marlins' pitcher's spot coming up, I thought it strange Matheny didn't have a RH pitcher throwing.
Anyway, sounds like it was just a cramp that shouldn't be an issue for Garcia's next start.
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Im glad to see a story on the post dispatch about the cardinals limiting there young starters. It is to early to claim the division but i think the cardinals are far enough ahead to use some caution. Id like to see a phantom dl trip for each. It would be shades of TLR but it works. What i dont want is the cards most shutdown starts burnt up before post season.
I'm still not there yet. I know people have done the math and determined the Cardinals don't even have to play .500 ball for the rest of the season to reach the coveted 90-win mark, but I don't think 90 wins gets you the NL Central this year. I still think the first goal is to win the division, not just make it to the wild card game where someone like Madison Bumgarner or Matt Harvey can single-handedly end your season.
Magic number to win the division is down to 85.
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"Not to quibble, but wasn't Stanton's single off the wall?"
Previous at bat. His single in the seventh was a two-hopper up the middle.
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Im glad to see a story on the post dispatch about the cardinals limiting there young starters. It is to early to claim the division but i think the cardinals are far enough ahead to use some caution. Id like to see a phantom dl trip for each. It would be shades of TLR but it works. What i dont want is the cards most shutdown starts burnt up before post season.
I'm still not there yet. I know people have done the math and determined the Cardinals don't even have to play .500 ball for the rest of the season to reach the coveted 90-win mark, but I don't think 90 wins gets you the NL Central this year. I still think the first goal is to win the division, not just make it to the wild card game where someone like Madison Bumgarner or Matt Harvey can single-handedly end your season.
Magic number to win the division is down to 85.
Now you're just taunting me ...
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"Not to quibble, but wasn't Stanton's single off the wall?"
Previous at bat. His single in the seventh was a two-hopper up the middle.
Sorry. You're correct. The single in the seventh was off the wall, and his single in the ninth was a two-hopper to the right of second base. And that single in the seventh was one of the hardest-hit baseballs I've ever seen. Granted, you don't want to make an out at second base leading off an inning when you're behind by four runs and you've got Heyward's arm to think about, but it got out to right field so fast there wasn't really much of a question about whether he was going to stretch it into a double.
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