I would have been playing for one anyway in that situation. It worked just like a sac bunt.
Great job tonight by Cain.
Please pitch carefully to Hamilton with that base open.
Please...
Please pitch carefully to Hamilton with that base open.
Please...
Thank you.
Yikes! Not a good move by Washington to bring in Holland, who threw one strike to three batters.
quote:Originally posted by Homerun04:
Yikes! Not a good move by Washington to bring in Holland, who threw one strike.
but it was a beautiful strike!
- I am trying to see the bright side of that outing!
How do you not have the bullpen ready after the 2nd walk?
Maybe Nolan should handle the bullpen? (joke)
Maybe Nolan should handle the bullpen? (joke)
I think you have to let the shortstop pitch here...
Texas youth and inexperience is showing. I hate learning experience being on such a big stage. That goes for Washington too.
Walks Will Kill You! Not a Bad night for Renteria...
Anyone know any pitchers within five minutes of AT&T Park? Rangers are running out.
Those walks are baseball suicide.
quote:Originally posted by K Complex:quote:Originally posted by Homerun04:
Yikes! Not a good move by Washington to bring in Holland, who threw one strike.
but it was a beautiful strike!
It was 93 mph!
Lost in all this chaos now is what a great game Wilson threw. 
Giants.
"Crush! Kill! Destroy!"
"Crush! Kill! Destroy!"
I'm changing the channel to a Two and a Half Men rerun. Goodnight all.
I like the giants chances of putting up 7 a game more than the rangers.
All this after 2 K's!
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MLB slaughter rule? Eight after eight or ten after eight? Can't ever seem to remember.
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MLB slaughter rule? Eight after eight or ten after eight? Can't ever seem to remember.
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Yikes... wasn't the book on this series that the Giants would have to try to keep the games low scoring to have a chance because of the Rangers potent offence... looks like the roles have been reversed. 
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- "but it was a beautiful strike!"
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WOW
don't need to say anything else.
don't need to say anything else.
The Suns are playing the Jazz on TNT for those B-Ball fans out there.... 
Uribe is fun to watch!
that was Texas Toast!
good night!
good night!
underdog cooking... 
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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Make Texas Toast (Very loosely based on an actual eHow© submission)
Everything is bigger in Texas (and let's hope that includes the strike zone when the World Series comes to the Lone Star state). Texas Toast is certainly no exception. Texas Toast is twice the heartbreak of normal Regular Season Toast. And watching Texas Toast being made is not easy if you're a Rangers fan because they really like their thick-sliced loaves...they just don't like them being toasted. And certainly not twice. And especially not in the City by the Bay. Hopefully Rangers fans will discover that their team, as Tony Bennett might croon, "left their crusts in San Francisco."
There are, however unfortunately, some additional qualities other than size that make Texas Toast even more authentically Texan. Read closely or you may find yourself eating an imposter! And that is never a safe practice whilst in San Francisco!
TIPS & WARNINGS. You didn't really think we could get through this without these did you?
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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Make Texas Toast (Very loosely based on an actual eHow© submission)
Everything is bigger in Texas (and let's hope that includes the strike zone when the World Series comes to the Lone Star state). Texas Toast is certainly no exception. Texas Toast is twice the heartbreak of normal Regular Season Toast. And watching Texas Toast being made is not easy if you're a Rangers fan because they really like their thick-sliced loaves...they just don't like them being toasted. And certainly not twice. And especially not in the City by the Bay. Hopefully Rangers fans will discover that their team, as Tony Bennett might croon, "left their crusts in San Francisco."
There are, however unfortunately, some additional qualities other than size that make Texas Toast even more authentically Texan. Read closely or you may find yourself eating an imposter! And that is never a safe practice whilst in San Francisco!
- 1. Don't even think about trying to use that conventioanl toaster or toaster oven. Texas Toast should be made in a big, sickly sweet smoky ballpark full of men, women, and children festooned in orange and black and sporting thick black, bushy, and ridiculous beards. And a huge national audience should be tuned in (for at least the first few innings). To make great Texas Toast the Rangers' batters not getting timely hits is optional, but strongly encouraged. Slather liberally a few miscues in the outfield and some relief pitchers wandering aimlessly and before you know it you have Texas Toast strolling from third towards home and planting its doughy foot on the plate with just enough moxie to turn every slice into a Genuine San Francisco Treat...free sourdough runs! DO NOT insult your Texas Toast with margarine, other spreads, or any of that ubiquitous greasy goo found in too many fogbound neighborhoods. Use the real deal or your Texas Toast may just grow stale and not even be fit for the dear Mockingbird.
2. For even better Texas Toast, fry it in bacon or burger grease. If the concession stand nearest the team is only serving tofu based fare then just keep moving along until the team's cholesterol meter trips. Make sure the team has enough to make them really, really sluggish and just a tad nauseous. Again, do not ask your Texas Toast to stoop to low levels such as PAM© cooking spray or K-Y Jelly©, and never, ever utter the acronym "EVOO" within 100 feet of your Texas Toast. Come on...Extra Virgin and San Francisco just don't mix.
3. Serve your Texas Toast to rich anxious owners and a dejected assemblage of stars both past and present. Most likely they will appear to be finicky and fretful. Not to worry, merely serve the Texas Toast with peppered cream gravy. Somehow, on a complex molecular and not too well understood level, this will pick them up. Do not skip this step! Always, without exception, include cream gravy made with whole humility (no substitutes!). There's just something about getting creamed that really makes Texas Toast. No cream...no toast! If you do not follow this step, you are not eating Texas Toast, but rather you would be eating Diet Texas Toast, otherwise known as Toast For Lightweights or as some call it, Melba..."toast without 'tude!"
TIPS & WARNINGS. You didn't really think we could get through this without these did you?
- •Use 'smoked team' drippings in your gravy when possible.
•Serve with sweet tea and plenty of humble pie.
•Feelin' particularly rangy? Deep fry your Texas Toast with catfish...or "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Goodbye Fish"!
•Got your spurs on? Mix a little salsa into your gravy and dip your Texas Toast in it for that extra kick in the a$$.
•This could get very wet and messy so tuck the corners of your bandana into each eye. Then button up your pearl snap shirt and wear your chaps! And most important: keep an eye open behind you!
•Eat it fast or it may eat you. Nuff said.
•Hurry up, dude! Do you think those steers are gonna rope themselves?!
•We're burnin' daylight! I didn't make the last few up...they just came from Deep in the Heart of Texas!
•This article won't be found in the Fashion & Style category of eHow...it's just too gawd awful ugly for that.
•Never serve Texas Toast with salad....unless it's Ron White's 'tater salad'. Grazing is for cows, not cowboys...but remember: "When in San Francisco, do as the San Franciscans do".
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Go Los Gigantes!!!
Now on to Texas to take one out of three then back home to win in six as someone here predicted earlier.
Now on to Texas to take one out of three then back home to win in six as someone here predicted earlier.
Game 2 was all about the first 7 innings and Matt Cain, with the 8th being about NL vs. AL baseball and the differences in the bullpens, the one area the Giants are measurably better.
The 8th is summed up by the way Bochy used Lopez for Hamilton and the Rangers didn't have guys warm and ready when strikes became scarce.
Cain was terrific. Wilson was really good.
Not much difference between them. Base runners were scarce, not many hard hit balls and Uribe and Renteria playing like they are 25 in the field and at bat.
After the Kinsler 2b, Cain took advantage of the break and threw every pitch where he wanted and needed. Leaving him at third was a masterful job.
Post game, Cain gave all the credit for the game to the 23 year old rookie catcher. Said Posey was masterful both in pitch selection and location...one of those aspects you don't really see.
Great crowd. AT&T is the best park in baseball. The location and atmosphere in and around the Park are starting to feel like the friendly confines around Wrigley.
Kinsler to me is quite a hitter. Sat with college coaches, including a pitching and hitting coach and discussed how to get him out. The idea with his upper cut swing would suggest pitching above his hands, which is what Cain did... and he lined it off the wall in CF. Unbelievably quick hands and bat...and strong.
Javy Lopez...what a situational lefty. Boy, is he something and a real weapon against guys like Hamilton, Utley and Howard. Talk about knowing your job and doing it.
The 8th is summed up by the way Bochy used Lopez for Hamilton and the Rangers didn't have guys warm and ready when strikes became scarce.
Cain was terrific. Wilson was really good.
Not much difference between them. Base runners were scarce, not many hard hit balls and Uribe and Renteria playing like they are 25 in the field and at bat.
After the Kinsler 2b, Cain took advantage of the break and threw every pitch where he wanted and needed. Leaving him at third was a masterful job.
Post game, Cain gave all the credit for the game to the 23 year old rookie catcher. Said Posey was masterful both in pitch selection and location...one of those aspects you don't really see.
Great crowd. AT&T is the best park in baseball. The location and atmosphere in and around the Park are starting to feel like the friendly confines around Wrigley.
Kinsler to me is quite a hitter. Sat with college coaches, including a pitching and hitting coach and discussed how to get him out. The idea with his upper cut swing would suggest pitching above his hands, which is what Cain did... and he lined it off the wall in CF. Unbelievably quick hands and bat...and strong.
Javy Lopez...what a situational lefty. Boy, is he something and a real weapon against guys like Hamilton, Utley and Howard. Talk about knowing your job and doing it.
It is fun watching Bochy press the buttons and then the players coming thru.
I have the Giants in 7 but that be a high game count
For me now coming down the stretch is the Giants bullpen , deep and well rested. the Rangers bullpen appears shellshocked
I have the Giants in 7 but that be a high game count
For me now coming down the stretch is the Giants bullpen , deep and well rested. the Rangers bullpen appears shellshocked
Rangers' bullpen? Appears to be the case. I hope this accelerates learning/improvement for next year.
I'm hoping for Giants in 6. Winning it all back at AT&T would be special. And, Matt Cain has certainly proved he has what it takes to nail down that final win.
Infielddad, have to agree about the atmosphere around PacBell/AT&T Park. It is becoming a special place, a very important part of "The City".
Infielddad, have to agree about the atmosphere around PacBell/AT&T Park. It is becoming a special place, a very important part of "The City".
Gotwood- great post! You said it all in a very humorous way. I knew you were smart but you've outdone yourself.
Go Giants...........
Go Giants...........
All I can say is OUCH!
Gotwood
Gotwood
Locally it was reported that Bochy had pumped up the team with Braveheart clips of William Wallace firing up the troops before going into battle.
Despite the bad outing, I'm still planning on going to a game in Texas, wearing a Yankee's jersey and throwing beer and stuff on Mrs. Lee. 
quote:Originally posted by Three Bagger:
Despite the bad outing, I'm still planning on going to a game in Texas, wearing a Yankee's jersey and throwing beer and stuff on Mrs. Lee.
quote:Originally posted by Three Bagger:
Despite the bad outing, I'm still planning on going to a game in Texas, wearing a Yankee's jersey and throwing beer and stuff on Mrs. Lee.
Better yet, dress as a Texas relief pitcher and throw stuff at her- this way, if you equal last nights efforts, she wont have to worry about anything come close to hitting her!
I would guest, Mrs. Lee got a much better treatment in San Francisco, I would think someone would have offered her a "joint" to help relax her during the game... 