| time: | 7:05 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Jack Cassel (0-0, 4.66) vs John Van Benschoten (0-5, 10.86) |
| pre: | Padres.com, B-R.com |
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The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain.
Watch out, Geoff. Chuck Norris is out there.
He does not tolerate insults. Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep, he waits.
Phillies will win practically every day now. They may blow by the Mets – the Mets are getting beat late at DC. Can you imagine the Mets not making the playoffs ? They are only 4 behind the Pads for the last playoff spot !!! The NL Pennant race is wide open !!!
of course, I meant 4 ahead for the last spot. The Mets are really struggling.
Fricking Cardnals, a pathetic team, and to think those players are still pulling big paychecks. Christ on a crutch!
Phils 5
Cards 0 in the 5th
6: I agree. The Phils are really starting to concern me.
Phils 6
Cards 0 Didn’t they win the WS last year?
Anyone else’s feed really quiet?
Is it just me, or has Tony Gwynn put on a lot of weight recently?
10 … not according to this …
http://wheaties.com/fit_to_win/follow_progress.aspx
1,2,3 … When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris
http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/
Charles “Friggin” Bronson rules all and kicks all @$$.
War OJ going to hell (errr the slammer), and the Padres winning the World Series. I’m out.
Nice RBI DBL Cammy!!!!
A sacrifice bunt in the first inning against a terrible pitcher (coming off a walk) with our own terrible pitcher on the mound? If you don’t think Blum can hit, Black, don’t bat him second.
I liked KK in the 3-spot the other day … why not continue with that, I wonder?
15 … agree’d … B(l)um in the 2-spot is *not* a good idea …
Nice seeing X, but I’d like to see him GIDP even more.
12: Darnit! I was in the process of collecting a few of my favorites before providing the link! Oh well, here are four of my favorites:
1: Four of my favorite:
-When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, but pushing the world down….
-There is no chin under Chuck Norris’ Beard. There is only another fist.
-Chuck Norris did not “lose” his virginity, he stalked it and then destroyed it with extreme prejudice
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is based on a true story: Chuck Norris once swallowed a turtle whole, and when he crapped it out, the turtle was six feet tall and had learned karate
Thru 1 …
Pitches-strikes – J Van Benschoten 17-9; J Cassel 9-6.
Ground balls-fly balls – J Van Benschoten 3-0; J Cassel 2-1.
Batters faced – J Van Benschoten 5; J Cassel 3.
… that 1st inning was a nice job of “pitching to contact” by Jack C.
Cassel looks pretty bad right now. His control seems really off, and he keeps hanging his breaking pitches and leaving balls up. Fortunately, we’re in Petco and he’s pitching against the Pirates, so he can get away with these sort of things.
After being down 11-0, the Cards are actually giving the Phils a bit of a scare, narrowing deficit to 3. One thing about the Phils, they have a horrible pen. They would be even closer to the Mets and to the Wild Card spot if they hadn’t blown an 8 or 9 run lead to the Braves a week or so ago.
8 … Cards showing a bit o’ spunk …
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270917124
… the put up a 6-spot in bottom of 7th … now trail only 12-9 …
Thru 2 …
Pitches-strikes – J Van Benschoten 29-17; J Cassel 31-19.
Ground balls-fly balls – J Van Benschoten 6-0; J Cassel 2-4.
Batters faced – J Van Benschoten 8; J Cassel 8.
Anyone seen Jack Wilson’s September Stats?
48 AB
.521 Avg
5 HR
16 RBI
1.533 OPS
Wow.
Great job by Cassel. I think the thing we have to get used to with him is that he is rarely going to toss up anything that even approaches the kinds of gems that CY or Peavy can toss up, even Maddog for that matter. He’s probably going to give up 2-4 runs per game and the offense is going to have to over come it.
I’d be happy to get 6 innings out of Cassel…. so far, he’s halfway home.
Gi’nts score 2 more on Webb in top of 4th … now up 3-1 …
Phils bring on Alfonseca to put out the fire in St.Louis. He follows Jose Mesa and Clay Condrey in relief. Are you kidding me ? How bad could a bullpen be ? And look at some of the bums that the Mets have on their pitching staff.
28: That’s not very Cy-Young-esque! Of course, I think that Webb is now a distant 3rd and the race, if you can still call it one, is between Penny and Peavy (frontrunner).
BTW: I could really use a string of 6 straight Padres wins to fill the void left in my life by the Chargers stink-fest last night.
Storm down 2-1 thru 3 in Game 5 of the Cal League Championship Series (best-of-5) …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_09_17_lesafa_sjgafa_1
Paulino is now hitting .438 in September. Which gives the hottest hitter (Wilson) another chance at an RBI… of course, he’s averaging an RBI every three at bats in septembers, so this bodes well…
Gwynn seems to stuck in a bit of a time warp. He just referred to Xavier Nady (who will turn 29 in two months) as a “good, young hitter”.
But Cassel gets him again! WOHOO!
Pitt 5 hits 0 runs
Pads 1 hit 1 run.
Sometimes its good to be lucky.
Cards score anohter pair … now a 12-11 game … with a man on and Pujols up!
35: Make that 3 runs on 3 hits!!!
re: 30
How can it be between Peavy and anyone. He leads the league in the triple crown categories and he’s 0.38 better than Chris Young in ERA and 0.49 better than any non-Padres pitcher.
In case no one noticed, Khalil hit a 2-run HR to make it 3-0
Phillies should be o.k. They have Kane Davis on to close out the 8th. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6495
38: I totally agree. My point was more that Webb cannot be considered. The nod to Penny is that someone has to be number 2.
39: Man, he is absolutely on fire right now. Great to see Khalil and Kouz leading this team.
St. Louis flew out to deeeeeep center with 2 on to end the inning…. man, it looks like it was close to going on on gameday…
38 … I think that’s what Marsh meant when he said “if you can still call it one” … but for some reason, there’s still some media folks naming other names for NL CYA … I say we just lay low and let Jake earn the hardware in his last 2 starts and be happy …
Tight strike zone for the most part tonight. Personally I like to see the bigger strike zones, but more up and down then side to side.
Thru 4 …
Pitches-strikes – J Van Benschoten 42-24; J Cassel 55-38.
Ground balls-fly balls – J Van Benschoten 7-1; J Cassel 4-6.
Batters faced – J Van Benschoten 11; J Cassel 17.
… hmmm, do you think Bud considered a PH’er there? For sure that will be Jack’s last AB tonight …
44: I guess I missed that part.
When Greene plays a full season, he puts up better numbers. Go figure.
43 … gotta like the Cards throwin’ out Izzy for the 9th …
46: Might not even be a question as Cassel might not even make it through this inning.
48: or not
48 … except that he just allowed a bomb to Rowand.
Nice job getting out of that inning by Cassel.
Not so much on Izzy giving up a solo homer to Rowand, though.
Great pitch by Cassel to induce the double play. Beautiful movement on the pitch to saw off Bautista.
Wow, I’m glad we are playing the Pirates.
Cassel is pitching phenomenally well. Love to see that.
I’m just glad that we skipped Germano’s start….
MLBTradeRumors gives the Pads some love for the Bell/Johnson trade…http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/
On the late night shift in the dead of last Winter, I heard John Kentera on XEXX spend two or three minutes on Jack Cassel. Kentera told listeners that he “wouldn’t be surprised if Cassel was a factor this year because he had decent stuff & he knew how to battle”. As a Padre junky, I knew who Cassel was, but I never thought that someone on a sports talk show in SD would ever mention someone like Cassel. This is one example of Kentera’s baseball knowledge and instincts. Cassel was actually demoted to AA last year and had to resurrect himself as a starter. It’s quite a cinderella story. Though we are lacking in big time prospects at the higher levels, I think that it is a testimony to the leadership of this franchise that we work with players like this to foster development–guys like Germano or Cassel
STL down 13-11, bottom of the ninth, two on, two outs, Branyan at the plate…
57 … a bit anecdotal, but I like it …
BTW, Storm now down 5-1 in top of 5th …
Thru 5 …
Pitches-strikes – J Van Benschoten 84-45; J Cassel 66-48.
Ground balls-fly balls – J Van Benschoten 9-4; J Cassel 7-6.
Batters faced – J Van Benschoten 23; J Cassel 21.
… I’d be happy going to the bully now …
Down 2, 2 out 2 on for the Cards. Up comes Branyan, maybe he’ll help us this year yet…
Branyan up with 2 on…..
and he watches strike three zoom by…
58,61,62 … Branyan worked the count to 3-2 … then K’d looking … woulda been fun to be at Busch Stadium tonight …
and he takes what looks to be a clear strike for strike three…
64 … Moving on SF still up 3-1 on ARI. Gotta love Sept baseball.
This is almost exactly like Cassel’s last start. Gives up a bunch of baserunners, but leaves most of the runners on the base. Not pretty, but I’ll take it!
*VERY* nice outing by Jack Cassel … well done!
Now let’s get a little rally goin’ and use his spot to get Myrow an AB with men on …
Great outing by Cassel, now lets get those guys in and give us some breathing room.
Wow, well a guess we should had just sent Cassel up to bat.
He and Barrett are completely worthless
I dont really like Brocail pitching in there higher leverage situations
Thru 6 …
Pitches-strikes – J Van Benschoten 84-45; F Osoria 11-8; J Cassel 78-57.
Ground balls-fly balls – J Van Benschoten 9-4; F Osoria 3-0; J Cassel 8-7.
Batters faced – J Van Benschoten 23; F Osoria 4; J Cassel 25.
… obviously that wasn’t my first choice for a PH’er …
Thats twice now in 3 games Buddy pulled a starter too early I think. Tomko only had 77 pitches through 6 and Cassel only had 78 pitches.
#72 Yeah, but I certainly don’t want Cla in there. Brocail has been one of the more effective reliever on this staff.
man!!! no runs on ten hits. OUCH!
76: Anyone know what the record is for hits in a game without a run?
That would have been a good opportunity to get NOG’s superior defense in the field by PH for Blum against the lefty.
77: no, put they put a couple more hits up w/o scoring and I bet we’ll find out what the record is in the game recap.
78: we know, you hate Blum
#78 I agree with you. Why doesn’t BB do this more. It just makes sense. Giles could win a game with his glove.
It is really the only value that Marcus can bring to the table and it’s not like Blum is an above average offensive player so it makes all the sense in the world to bring Marcus on late.
74 … I disagree … you just can’t risk sending those guys out for another inning … they are not front-line starters … they are guys that have put together a good outing … take the innings an RUN … overall, I’m a bit down on BB … but getting Tomko and Cassel out before they turn back into pumpkins has been AOK with me …
OTOH, I too would have PH’d for Blum (ex. get Myrow an AB) and gotten NOGs glove in the game … we’ve got expanded rosters, use ‘em!
82: I’d rather see stansberry, he has looked good and isnt an automatic out and a game thats still pretty close.
That was one *nice* 8th inning by Bell … say “aye” if you’re missing Scott Linebrink … crickets …
83: I agree. You take out a pitcher before he gives up runs, not when.
Arizona and San Fran all knotted up at 3 now in the bottom of the 7th.
84 … my point is that BB can run NOG out there for his defense, and still have a backup in Stansberry if we need to get offensive again …
83: When it seems they are in a decent groove i dont see why you couldnt send them out for another inning after only 75 pitches.
Anybody else in favor of sticking with Bell for the 9th? Just a thought …
89: because we have one of the best bullpens in the league. If we have a lead through 6 with one of our back-end guys, you go to the pen.
89 … so the phrase “ticking time bomb” means nothing to you?
90: lol, i hope your kidding. Hoffy hasn’t pitched in a while, he should be automatic.
#84 Stansberry simply hasn’t had enough reps at this level to know much – it would be risky dumping Marcus at this point for a couple of different reasons. As recently as yesterday I was on dump Marcus Giles train, I chickened out when I had a vision of Stansberry getting picked off second base in a playoff game -caught like a deer in the headlights.
You owe us one Marcus ! You have really sucked this year. Get a big hit in the playoffs or something would ya !
86: There is no way of knowing that either Tomko or Cassel would had given up runs in the 7th (or any inning anyone pitches). When your 8th and 9th inning guys are your only consistant relievers, it makes sense to me to send the starter back out there when they are having a good outing.
and the DBacks take the lead: 5-3, still bottom of the 7th.
91: Our bullpen has been hit or miss since the ASB
92: I dont see either of them as ticking time bombs against terrible teams.
and the DBacks take the lead: 5-3 in the bottom of the 7th. Stupid Giants!
95: Not with undependable starters. You can’t trust only two relievers on the staff. If that’s the case, cut everyone else.
Showalter was fired in 1995 for trusting only Cone and McDowell.
Kouz with a really nice DBL. This guy is on fire.
It’s so nice to have a healthy Scott Hairston back which thankfully means no more Sledge. Double winner.
Kouz has really turned it on since the ASB, his stats are beginning to measure up to the top NL rookies
Not too much dropoff from Bradley to Hairston right now. Let Jenga come back 100% – give him another week.
Giants have runners on 1st and 2nd in the top of the 8th with no outs.
20th shutout of the year, thats pretty impressive.
Another nice win boys!! Go Giants!!!
103: The only real drop-off is protection for Adrian
Nice win Pads! Go Giants!!!
105: I believe that is a franchise record.
93 … of course you are right! Way to go, Hoffy!
Padres set a club record tonite with their 20th shutout. That’s amazing.
Nice win! Great start from Cassel. It went a lot like his last start. Let a lot of runners on base, but kept them there. Not pretty, but I’ll take it.
31 … Storm boyz are ice cold … only 2 hits thru 8 innings … one more shot for all the marbles …
3 run shot by Randy Winn! 6-5 Giants!
Yes! The Winn with a three-run HR!!! Giants up 6-5 in the 8th!!!
The Winn…haha
Here’s an interesting look at what’s going on with the minor leaguers going to “instructional league” …
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/padres/20070917-9999-1s17minors.html
Felix follows with a 2 run shot. Wow, the Arizona announcers are depressed. It’s great.
Make that Feliz, not Felix.
114 … and a 2-run shot by Pete Happy … Gi’nts now up 8-5!!!
72 … here’s a not from a UT article today about yesterday’s game …
After working in three consecutive games, reliever Doug Brocail got the day off yesterday. Brocail, 40, in his past 13 outings and 14 1/3 innings, is 1-0 with an ERA of 0.63.
OT … here’s something that tickled me a bit from the recap of tonights game …
Van Benschoten did lower his ERA, from 10.86 to 10.06.
… OUCH!
121: lol, ya I saw that.
SFO/AZI to the top of the 9th. Here’s to hoping the Giants hold ‘em off and we move to within one game of the FBacks. Screw the WC!
To the bottom of the 9th
7-1 final at San Jose … Storm lose …
And Arizona lost!! 1 GB now!
125 … all tied up in the all-important loss-column … woo-hoo!
116: That was an interesting read.
116: good stuff. Freese as a catcher? Hmmmmmm