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Cards down 2 in the top of the Ninth, tie it when Pujols is intentionally walked to load the bases -- and the tying run scores when Holiday is then hit by the pitch!
Two more runs come in on a single --
and then Washington ties it in the bottom of the Ninth with a two-run homer.
They're playing in the 10th now.
I think everyone's in that Ground Zero Mosque thread... or the NBA playoffs, I dunno...
T13 - last Nats reliever (Slaten, a Ken Phelpser) is on the mound, intentionally walking Pujols to face PH Adam Wainwright to make it 1st and 2nd w/ 2 out in a tied game.
EDIT: Adam out, going to B13.
Pujols has reached base 5 times tonight. Jon Jay is 0-7.
Not to take away from Pujols, but the last couple IBBs were no-brainers. He was batting in front of the pitcher (with two outs each time) once Holiday got injured - and the Cards were pretty much out of position players already by that point.
*Yes, yes, he's done a ton of good for his teams - still, his methods have costs.
But yeah, it ended up pretty much ended up taking Pujols out of the equation in extras.
Didn't Holiday tweak something?
ISTR Tony double-switched the pitcher behind Albert in that 20-inning Met game, too.
Depending on when he found out that Holliday needed to leave the game, he may not have really had a choice but to put the pitcher there. Holliday got hit in the ninth but came out to play defense in the bottom of the inning; then, in the top of the tenth, La Russa used Allen Craig to pinch-hit for the pitcher, then Craig replaced Holliday in the field in the bottom.
Then in extra innings, La Russa twice pinch-hits with pitchers with runners on base and two outs rather than use Bryan Anderson. Just appalling.
This. I am beyond sick of the "I cannot use the second catcher under any circumstances" thing. This absolutely killed us in that 20-inning game against the Mets, when TLR let a reliever hit twice with the winning run at third.
Dear god. I'm going to call TLR if I ever need some weed.
Checking B-ref, before tonight Lopez has started 18 games at SS this year. Now I'm confused.
What's the reason for LaRussa having such a fear of doing this? It seems much more of an albatross than any other manager's reaction to similar situations. Was there a game early in his managing career where he ran out of catchers and had to use a player out of position with bad results?
Almost all of that was much earlier in the season, when Brendan Ryan was badly struggling, so you could sort of understand it, if not excuse it. But now that Ryan is hitting much better and back to being the best defender in baseball, there's no excuse at all.
Or it could just be the weather, I suppose.
Saw the game..a wild and woolly affair. There is a lot to beetch about the game nowadays but technology makes it possible to see almost all of them live or taped.
Good for him.
Dumbest thing I'll read all day.
That'll never happen, because I've heard that Albert had a shot of espresso in 2005.
You are a lucky man, esp if you got a chrome and or auto version. I collected baseball/basketball cards all the way up to around 1999, so I never got the chance to pull a Pujols and/or Ichiro rookie (I do have a bunch of Kobe, Nash, Iverson, Garnett rookies though). I started collecting again around 2004 for a few years, mainly through eBay. I did get to invest and collect the 2005-2006 rookie card crew. It's a pretty good crew that still has potential, it's just missing that one HOF superstar: Zimmerman, Kemp, J Weaver, Ellsbury, Braun, S Drew, Carlos Gonzalez, Phil Hughes, Bruce, and my memory is getting fuzzy now.
They should put that stamp right on the ball. Maybe it could be an asterisk or something.
Dumbest thing I'll read all day.
Sarcasm detector fail? Or maybe troll detector fail on my part? So hard to keep track.
Goosen is definitely a troll.
The funniest part of this was listening to Tim McCarver never figure out what had happened. Every time Pujols was walked or pitched around in extra innings, he complained about the Mets being unfair and cowardly.
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