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Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Cubs nearly re-lived Tuesday night’s nightmare, but managed to hold on for a 3-2 victory and move back into a first-place tie with Milwaukee.
Closer Ryan Dempster entered in the ninth with a 3-1 lead and watched the Astros stage a bizarre comeback thanks for a freakish bounce.
Mark Loretta led off with a grounder to first that deflected off the bag and away from Derrek Lee for an infield hit. Mike Lamb followed with a run-scoring triple to right-center… With a pulled in infield, Dempster then induced Scott to ground to third for the first out before Orlando Palmeiro walked to put runners on the corners. Then pinch-hitter Eric Munson grounded sharply to Lee, who started a 3-6-1 double play to end it in style.
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The Astros put together three hits in the eighth, but Alfonso Soriano threw out a runner at third and Howry stranded two when he induced Carlos Lee to fly out to end the inning.
It was a bizarre game all-around: two Hunter Pence brain-locks (one in the field and one on the bases), routine grounders bouncing off first base, Felix Pie allowing a ball under his glove…
Given that the NL Central race long ago turned into a perversely entertaining display of mediocrity (and “top THIS!” in a negative fashion), it was quite appropriate.
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1. NTNgod Posted: September 13, 2007 at 04:04 AM (#2522694)After Marmol, Howry, and Dempster all pitched multiple innings the night before, and Pinella had declared them off-limits before the game (RR), he still used Howry and Dempster again Wednesday night.
Marmol should be available for Traschel's Thursday start, but it'll be interesting to see if he uses Howry and Dempster yet again if needed - or continues to "worry about tomorrow, tomorrow" - particularly with four games this weekend.
Or Lou's in the hotel, watching the Weather Channel, and frantically cheering on Humberto (the storm, not Quintero).
it IS possible that humberto could be allison all over again because the stadium is below street level so youneverknow
but the cubs would just have to make the game up later so what for?
as for quintero, he's just another suckulous suck. on a team of lousy ballplayers
sigh
and gawd i hate trachsel games - 4 freaking hours long
Helluva of an arm, though.
Gorgeous throw from his knees to nail Lee, and he almost got Theriot later, despite Theriot's getting a good jump due to the pitcher.
true. some people i know who watch the round rock AAA games told me he used to pick guys off first all the time.
too bad he is so lousy at calling games, framing pitches and hitting
Good thing you're not a Red Sox fan then, because 80% of our games are 4 hours long.
Something Astro and Cub fans can agree on.
Y'know, considering I'm usually kind of a weather junkie, I'm ashamed to admit I haven't really followed Humberto's progress.
He just formed late Wednesday, so you haven't missed much.
uck
it's the *($&^@!v DH i tell you
i'd rather see the pitcher bunt/strike out then sit through 4 hour games. even our extra inning games dont usually run 4 hours
- and retro - i been waiting on humberto but we haven't had so much as a drop of rain tonight - i was sure it was gonna - the air smelled bad like it usually does before a TS but nothing. galveston is getting pounded and it's only 60 miles away.
actually i just checked weather.com and it looks like the storm is moving up the coast to port arthur instead of coming ashore. but i am not so sure of that - dogss are all restless like they got with bad weather.
and there has been too much rain/bad weather this year to go along with my lousy baseball team
sigh
uck
it's the *($&^@!v DH i tell you
That could just be peculiar to our team. What are the numbers on this overall between AL and NL? Anyone have that info handy?
If anyone knows where better breakdowns of Time of Game are available, I'd love to know. Because I'm guessing the Red Sox might have the longest average, although I'm sure the Yankees are close, either ahead or trailing.
Don't forget us Mets fans!
We actually had success speeding him up one year (with Shea chanting in one game, in unison: PITCH. THE. BALL.), and he pitched a lot better. So, of course, he decided not to do that anymore.
I take it that's Lugo...
And that is extremely impressive, considering that since 1999 Chipper Jones -- he of the 15.2% walk rate -- has only seen 3.7 P/PA.
yeh there is drainage problems all over houston - it WAS built on a swamp. and it was downtown and the medical center that got flooded so bad during allison.
sims bayou will flood before buffalo bayou which will flood before braes bayou
they redone all the streets/drainige over by the dome since you been here. as well as the southwest freeway (twice) and the west loop (3 times)
and you right about you never know exactly where it is gonna flood - even different houses on the same street are different.
Watch it go a couple hundred miles past Atlanta, regrow, and turn around to slam DC next friday.
Pinella was unavailable for comment.
Gorgeous throw from his knees to nail Lee,
That throw was a thing of beauty -- from his knees, the throw is perfectly over the 1B side of the bag, inches over the ground, an instant before Lee slid into it.
Dead solid perfect.
Which order the bayous flood in would depend on which part of the city got the most rain. I can remember an event when I was there in which Bray's Bayou was the worst case. The medical center would be Bray's Bayou.
they redone all the streets/drainige over by the dome since you been here. as well as the southwest freeway (twice) and the west loop (3 times)
I remember that the Southwest Freeway was sunk down into a trench below the neighborhoods, and that it was a lot of trouble when it rained.
Of course, the Weather Channel is also already pumping up the soon-to-be-Tropical Storm Ingrid (currently known as "Tropical Depression #8") lurking in the Atlantic.
And to add further perspective, that P/PA would lead the Mariners starting 9.
Nate McLouth has turned into the second coming of Andy Van Slyke. The dude is en fuego (272/363/544 and 12/1 SB/CS in 168 PA since August 1st). The power numbers are a bit of a jump from his minor league numbers, but this is really what I had hoped for from the guy when he originally came up. Too bad the Pirates ignore minor league numbers and age corrections when deciding who to put in the starting lineup. Thank goodness Chris Duffy got hurt and they traded Rajai Davis and Jason Bay is hurt as well, because it has forced Tracy to play McLouth every day.
God forbid.
You must be new here.
- unless most of the rain is north of the loop sims bayou always floods first
after allison tore up downtown they redid the SW freeway going through the montrose area - you know, after downtown before it gets to the intersection with 45 - and they sunk it down even more
when were you living here?
RUSS,
i think the pirates is the only Organization more effed up then my astros when it comes to young players and wasting them
and you stick with the team anyhow. you a stronger man then me that is fer SHER
I watch almost every Pirates game, so I did see that McLouth is doing well. It's gratifying to me since I thought he was the best high level offensive prospect in the barren system before we drafted McCutchen and I've since had to watch Duffy be handed the job and fail spectacularly two years in a row.
I guess I hadn't realized how the rest of the lineup has turned into the Yankees. I knew that they hit well in August (.287/.353/.483, 45 HR) but they're hitting .310/.386/.462 in September now too. Wow.
The major candidates for credit are McLouth (see above), LaRoche's surge to where he was supposed to be (346/405/556 in August/Sept), and Jack Wilson's Ted Williams impression (407/546/657 in 128 PA in Aug/Sept is just batshit crazy).
What the hell? I think you have the OBP wrong, but still I had no idea Jack could ever have an ISO over .200 for two straight months...
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