Game 1 Diary---Innings 7-9
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posted by Union Commish @ 9:23 PM
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
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And our Hero, Rolen, leads it off. Glavine, surprisingly, is still in.
Our third popup from Rolen. He needs to be taken out. He is hurt.
Seven innings, six baserunners, and two double plays for the Cards. Offense is whimpering.
Bottom of the order up for Mets. Shawn Green....the finest Jewish baseball player in the Majors. Yes, you heard me Gabe Kapler...
89 pitches for Glavine. He has to be done. Really hard to bring him back on three days rest after 8 innings.
Something you never want to see...Brad Thompson getting loose in the pen. That doesn't happen in a tie game.
Aparently there is a third person in the booth tonight. Did anyone catch his name?
And we get our first look at Julio Franco, the allegedly 48 year old MLB Player.
In 1982, Franco's rookie year with the Phillies, Julio faced Jim Kaat, then of the Cards.
Kaat faced Ted Williams as a rookie.
I have no point, except that Julio is old.
Nice commercials tonight: The Michelin man got a job. Lasorda is consoling a Cub fan. Does a Cub fan need it? Really? Haven't won since 1908, but 2006 was really tough.
Right.
It's now official, the gun is hot. Thompson is bringing it at 93 mph. They must have the metric system.
The eigth is a huge inning. It's the only one where Albert can win it; if he bats in the 9th, it will be either leading off, or after Wilson.
J-Rod blown away by two fastballs. That is one thing you don't see happen often to this Card. Screw himself into the ground, yes. But not straight blown away.
Four pitch walk to Eckstein. It flashes through my head that was intentional. Get Wilson here, and lead off with Albert in the 9th.
Of course, it's Mota, so he rarely has any idea where the ball is going. With Wilson being a free swinger, all bets are off here. A wild pitcher against a free-swinger.
Preston is 4-18 against Mota lifetime.
Count full now...hard to imagine Wilson taking this pitch.
Wilson swings at ball four, and the Cards once again do just enough to wimper.
Man is Looper a bad picher. Nothing he threw Delgado was where Looper wanted it.
I say above, then he makes really nasty pitches to Wright.
McCarver makes an actual point, by saying LoDuca should have gone because they still would have Delgado at third. He's right.
Good news? Albert hits Wagner at a .300 clip
Bad news? No one else is above .231.
1-2 pitch here...I'm predicting a slider. Pujols is on the heat
And Albert fouls it off.
Line out, of course. How else could the 9th start.
Nice D by Valentin, and our hero gets to end it.
Let's hope Rolen gets beaned.
Wagner is hitting 98-100 on the Fox gun, which aparently was purchased through Jason Grimsley.
How do you go 3-0 on Rolen? Hey, Billy, ROLEN CAN'T HIT.
Inexcusable walk to Rolen. Simply inexcusable.
And that's your game. My remaining prediction for the night: We go from overly positive on the radio tomorrow to downright suicidal.
We need to steal two of five of the games where Carp. doesn't pitch. It would have been nice to take this one with the great performance by Weaver.
Tomorrow is a must win.
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