Did everyone’s feed just go black? Came right back but they better fix that.
In my opinion, two runs is twice as good as one run.
HPU gift wrapped that strike 1.
I don't know. I think it's 100% better.
And strike 2.
Maddening
If Urquidy gets those calls I will be less mad about it.
Ugh double play. Just needed the ball in the air.
Swinging at slop in the dirt is unlikely to precipitate a fly ball.
WTF is wrong with Chirinos?
3B ump having a rough night already.
Hard hit out right at one of our guys for a change. Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk
And why...after Urquidy just had to run do you SWING AT THE FIRST FUCKING PITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He went
Almost as bad as last night’s no swing call Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Urquidy is dealing.
Cards in the dugout?
I've been chastised here for similar comments.
We got to get to this slop-meister
Looks like another grind game, two runs look fragile
Yuli made Urquidy look like Ted Fucking Williams.
Urquidy defended that bunt well.
OutSTANding.Remember when the bottom of the order used to kick ass and produce runs like the 3-4-5 in other teams' lineups? Now would be an OK time to get back to that.
Urquidy's better off swinging.
I might be in a minority here but I don't hate that.
Yeah, I think you are. He's up there to drive a run in with 2 outs.
I give Jose all the rope he wants. He's got carte blanche with me
When Soto does his annoying back and forth dance in front of the box he reminds me of that weird Future Islands guy on Letterman.
It takes a lot of balls to call that a swing after what went on last night.
Yuli seemed to know it but I was far from sure.
HPU is not giving urquidy the same calls on the edges that Corbin is receiving. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
What a job by Urquidy.He's done, but what a game.
HPU is not giving urquidy the same calls on the edges that Corbin is receiving.
Couldn’t have asked for more from Urquidy. He was nails.
SU2C: Ian and Ann Ward
Sparks seems to think he’s done also, but I wouldn’t pull him.
My aunt just received her last chemo treatment and is going to beat the odds against pancreatic cancer.
That is beating the odds. She is blessed.
I haven't spoken to my contempt for DC area sports fans, they are in sort of an unassuming manner some of the worst fans in the country. But I have enormous respect for the Nationals because they for some reason have managed to put together a team that plays really good defense. I commend Suzuki especially, but there are plenty of other guys that I'm getting tired of.
One of the very rare cases where they found it in stage 1A, almost by accident. Treatment has been hell on earth, and there is a higher risk of relapse, but it’s a miracle she’s made it this far.
Also, the Nationals have banned The Wave.
Was Urquidy gassed? Why did he come out? 2 base runners in 6 innings. Couldn't Hinch have given him a couple of more hitters?
My mom had lung cancer a few years ago and everywhere we went they asked, How the hell did you catch it this early? Well, the answer is, both of her sons are assholes and got tired of her relentless coughing which turned out to have nothing to do with the cancer. Got a scan, saw the tumor, lopped it off, here we are.
But replaced it with the abomination that is Baby Shark. The very definition of losing.
Better to be lucky than...well, just better to be lucky. 👍
And because Harris's spot is due to lead off, you only get this inning out of him. James really fucked things up.
They said earlier Harris would only be used tonight to get out of a jam. Not for any length
I love Will Harris.
My mom fucked up her shoulder one morning when she was moving chairs around for her Sunday school class. She had to have it operated on and they found a small cancerous tumor in her right lung looking a pre-op x-ray. She had recently just been declared cancer free the previous year from breast cancer. That was after a lot of chemo. Anyway the lung cancer was very early and they got it all. She has one kidbney, hell she's been operated on 20 some odd times in her life. She's tougher than most.
Now what? Who sees nine outs in the bullpen?
Yeah, you know, for years she'd been coughing like a homeless guy who lives under a bridge. She'd had a scan a few years before that came back fine. In her mind, there was no reason to keep looking. She though it was allergies. That's what everyone told her. She came to visit me a few years ago and her cough was so fucking annoying that I told her, Look, your doctors aren't doing shit about this. I need you to find someone who will. I don't know what's wrong with you, but something is wrong, figure it out. This shit is unbearable. She found a doctor who took thirty seconds to think about it, scheduled another scan, the one that found the tumor, prescribed her some acid reflux medication, so we ended up getting rid of the cancer AND the fucking coughing two for one.I'll admit, it is harder to find her in Target now, but these are the sacrifices we make.
When I have the perspective to look back on all of this I wonder if Josh James might end up pissing me off.
I think we all need to mentally prepare for Rondon.
If Springer grounds to SS, I'm gonna throw my wine glass in the fireplace.
Literally?
Fortunately for you and your crystal collection, this idiot can't throw a strike.
Mrs Hawk probably wouldn't have like that. So he walks.
Plus, why not just use the little plastic cup that comes with your Nyquil?
Technology is proving what we already know: people suck at calling balls and strikes.
Bregman and Brantley have a discussion during the pitching change...
That’s awesome.
Which one of those white dudes in the stands is “Anonymous”?
Yeah, man, thanks, everybody's pretty clear on how serendipitous the whole thing was.
Bregman blows it open
It's the 'dude' with the attractive underbite
Settle down...play it like a 1-run game.
Can Tucker PH twice in this inning?
He's in the game now, he would not be a pinch hitter.
This is starting to look like torture. They’re leaving Rodney there to clear up his own mess. Smacks of surrender.
Rendon is human.
Only if they traded him to the other team.
Would it be greedy to ask for another slam?
Nope. You keep scoring until they figure out how to stop you.
I'll take a line drive somewhere.
I would like to think that all of us recall the various 9th inning comebacks against the Astros with a 7 run lead.
Charlize Theron ought to be ashamed.
I knew Tucker was doomed when he missed strike two.
I wonder if Brownie would call him K-Tuck?
More LOBsters.Are we allowed to complain about that?
You know that Google thing that you can pause with your hand will be the most annoying thing in the world as it will pause at the slightest movement and/or any passing pet. I have an easy fix though; you use you hand still, but you move it an extra 3” and touch the pause button.
Yes, my apologies for my earlier transgression. The worst aforementioned 7run comeback was Brian Giles and Pirates.
I remember that game but I don't remember who was pitching.
If I was arm wrestling with Charlize Theron, I’d let her win too if the prize was a Budweiser.
Plus you get the extra feature of Google spying on you while you’re nekkid.
Billy “best pitch” Wagner.
Three hard hit balls, two outs.
Wagner, right? Wasn’t that the first game of a doubleheader?
Catchers are tough.
Good grief.
Nice work, Hector.
What a play by Gurriel!Where the fuck was Peacock?
He was a closer.
Posted without comment.
We still need 2 innings from our pen.
And for a good team. What the Astros have now is not exactly Lidge to Dotel to Wagner, but the guys they have at the back of the pen you'd put up against anyone.Yuli is a good dude. I'm starting to warm to that guy.
Sparks guesses Devo for 2
He's never nonplussed.
Is that the same as being always plussed?
Yuli is a damn wizard at first...who woulda ever thunk he was a SS in Cuba.
I thought he was a 3rd basemen?
They have shorter basepaths.
Soto almost made a GREAT play.
They got the fuckin' metric system.
Did Rendin hit the bag?
Zimmerman has to be the last batter for Peacock.
Just throw fucking strikes. Thank you Brad.
Devo in the 9th with a 7 run lead?
I’m starting to figure that Soto doesn’t have an accurate arm.
Motherfucker! I’ll see myself out.
It was very close.
Good send, good throw, it happens.
You forgot “catcher running”.
Buck and Smoltz struggling to maintain interest in this game.
It was a responsible send. Maybe in a tie game you don't, but it was an acceptable risk.
Buck's getting a hard on thinking about Troy Aikman.
Fuckin' Nails, boys.New Series.
Won game four doo do do do do do
Urquidy was ridiculous in the most important game of his life by some geometric margin. Very, very impressive.
With 2 games at home and two games to be started by Cole and Verlander.
Urquidy is the 2nd Mexican pitcher in MLB to win a WS start, along with Fernandomania. Jaime Garcia with the Cards is the only other to start one.
According to Elias, Urquidy is the second pitcher since the LCS began in 1969 to have his first career postseason start be a scoreless outing in the World Series (also Jon Lester in 2007).
That's what he was trying to do. And almost did. He beats out that bunt, he steals, maybe Mike drives HIM in with an easy single, etc.
If Pressly is unusable, why not disable him and get somebody on the roster that might be able to contribute?
That's an easy double play if Harris doesn't kick that ball.
Who the fuck would that be? You seemingly find criticism of everything easy.
Frank Howard had three or four great years. Not a HoFer but he was very good.
I saw Hondo play (one game) in that old shithole that was the stadium the Redskins played in before their new digs. Me and a couple of hundred of my closest friends. That was before they exited for Arlington.
I saw Howard play in Austin more than once with the Victoria Rosebuds of the Texas League. Disch Field (now gone) had a tall 400 foot deep CF fence, and Howard hit a bullet line drive which was still rising when it left the park.
Altuve was shifted left of second. Kicking it probably kept it in the infield.
With all the shit rightly thrown at Joe Buck for being crap at his job, the thing at which he is empirically bad is describing the set up. In an era when teams shift on a regular basis, we - the tv viewer - never know because the directors are obsessed with close-ups and reaction shots while Buck is just smug as a bug in a rug in the booth reading stats passed to him by a producer.Then there's a ground ball that should go through a hole in the infield. "Ground ball" Buck will helpfully note. And then it's straight to an infielder you had no idea was fucking there and Buck describes it as a routine out.Just completely fucking useless.
