Marlins at Astros, 4/16/07
Score: Astros 4, Sushi 3
W: Chad Qualls (2-1) L: K. Gregg (0-1)
Homeruns: No, but Hanley Ramirez was SURE he’d get one
March to 3000: 2,942 (2×4, 2 2b, SAC)
Read Alyson’s Report Here: Footer
Or the AP recap here: Yahoo!
It did not take long to figure out that this would not be a pristine game. Two pitches in, Ramirez smacks one off the BMC software sign, but just below the yellow line. Burke, displaying the innate fielding instincts we’ve come so quickly to know and love, goes all the way to the wall, while El Caballo just sort of stands there snorting at it. The ball caroms back towards RCF, with Burke giving chase. At this point, Ramirez is getting greedy, to the point he runs the stop sign at third. And I don’t mean your run of the mill, Houston driver, “it’s not really red until 5 seconds in”, type of run the stop sign; his own 3b coach damn near tackled him to stop him. Burke managed to hit the cutoff man, and Ausmus applied the “ole” tag for the game’s first out.
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