first pitch: 9:35 a.m., PT
television: none
matchup: Clay Hensley (8-11, 3.87 ERA) vs Aaron Harang (13-10, 3.83 ERA)
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Morning start. So, what’s everyone having for breakfast today? In honor of Tuesday night’s shutout behind Jake Peavy and the bullpen, I’m making myself a bagel with cheese. Oh yeah, believe it.
Go Padres!
re: 200 … thanks for the link, Kevin … “a loogie spat in the face of baseball’s obsession with offense” … LOL … I’ll read the rest of it after I clean off my keyboard!
A 200-post (and counting) day …
Dogbones, Cub tied in the 5th, 2-2. Cubs with 5 hits, Dogs 1.
The first game of the Padres-Dodgers series is Wells vs. Maddux.
Ok, dodger series: 4 games. Can we take 3-4? Might. We have had the dogs number all year. That would put us up dow 2.5 come Tuesday, assuming Cubs helps us this afternoon. That would be nice and not out of the question either. Split would mean nothing of course. Big series, oh boy. Not as big as 96, but almost.
Didn’t we kill Maddox when he was with the Cubs? Camping all weekend, so got to remember batteries for my transistor radio.
re: 201 … what the term “obsession with offense” tells me is that Padres have taken a “Moneyball” approach and found value, for now, in pitching and defense … if the Padres’ aren’t going to be a top-tier-payroll team, then it’s key that they find VALUE … and that’s what we have in Meredith, Hensley, Thompson, Adkins, Embree, even Linebrink!
OT … the Cubs were “mathematically eliminated” yesterday … and what I mean by that is that even if the Padres lost all their remaining games and the Cubs won all their remaining games, the Padres would finish ahead of them in the Wild Card race! (I know that it’s actually been a while since the Cubs were “fully mathematically eliminated” as a result of factoring in that somebody has to win every game, so some team’s gonna finish with 80+ wins, for example)
D*** umghsk .asdk lksdj (replicating Boss Hog’s gutteral complaints)…
3-run HR for Dodgers (5-2)
D*** umghsk .asdk lksdj (replicating Boss Hog’s gutteral complaints)…
3-run HR for Dodgers (5-2)
so nice you said it twice
5-2 dogs in the 9th. So looks like we’ll be 1.5 behind going in the weekend. Lets see (wood burning, Damned degree in English) a, er, a sweep would mean 2.5 ahead, 3-4 means 1.5 and splits means nothing. Lets not talk about the other possblities. Believe me, it took a while to figure this out.
Cubbies strike back in the 7th with a 2 out RBI single. 5-3 Dodgers Bottom 7.
Cubs scored – 3-5 w/ 2 outs in the bot. of the 7th – men on 1st & 2nd…
3-RUN SHOT FOR RAMIREZ!!
Cubs lead 6-5!!!
3 run HR!!!! – 6-5 Cubbies!!!
check that, PM.
3/4 would make us .5 ahead each game is a 2-game swing.
okay and now things have changed:
sweep – 3.5 up
3/4 – 1.5 up
split – .5 back
1/4 – 2.5 back
swept – 4.5 back
Well, at least I can quote shakesphere (et tu Brutus?). I knew those algebra classes I slept though would catch up with me. Thanks for setting it straight. Go Cubs!!
This was a great day — Dogs lose, and Hensley pitched very well . . .Beeeeautiful.
cubs win! – padres 1/2 game back!!!
6-5 final. . .Cubs win!
Man, this day just keeps getting better.
I want to have Aramis Ramirez’s baby.
Now the MArlins, Phillies and Giants need to lose 5x each tonight, thank you very much.
Ewwww….a Dodger baby!
Anyone know how many “ex-Cubs” the Padres have on the roster? The Dog are way over their limit (I believe they have 6, 3 over the minimum) so the “ex-Cub factor” should be in full effect.
Do we dare challenge the ex-Cub factor by signing A. Ramirez this off-season?
.285/.348/.543 (in the offensively-friendly NL Central)
Normalized to:
.274/.340/.526
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/ramirar01.shtml
Thought I’d pass on a comment from Rob Neyer’s chat on ESPN:
“Noah (Washington, DC): As a lifelong Mets fan, I’m embarassed by Jon’s question. Non-snarky query / opportunity to plug your book: if you had to pick the biggest regular-season blunder of 2006 so far, what would it be?
Rob Neyer: That’s easy: trading Josh Bard and Cla Meredith for Doug Mirabelli. “
Giants … Rox start Vinny instead of Helton at 1B … he went 0-for-3 … Vinny’s *still* hurting the Padres!
uh, that last post was meant to start out with “Giants win” … 5-0 over Rox … Matt Cain is pitching very well lately …
Oh man has this east coast trip been messing with my head like no other.
I woke up today around 12:30pm PST (I took a day off), tried to tune in to the game, get into game mode, only to hear the jovial voices of The Coach and Scanman, indicating yet another rubber-game victory.
“Whew, that was fast.”
Roberts is pretty much league average with regard to grounding into double plays. His speed is apparently cancelled out by his tendency to hit groundballs.
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Ben B. Says:
September 14, 2006 at 11:21 am
Is Roberts a defensive upgrade over Johnson? Plus, Roberts almost never grounds into double plays, so he most likely wouldn’t have ended the inning with one of those.