Ned Yost fired.
Geez, they’re in a slump, and you fire the skipper with two weeks left? How is this going to help?
Yost should have been fired either months ago or at the end of the season. It’s bad ju-ju to throw him off in the middle of a playoff race.
Pretty damn close. Cubs have given up one hit in the last 18 innings. Impressive.
Yeah, they are a really impressive road team… 
And yes, the Astros got a raw deal, and yes, Selig’s proxies make out on the deal. Though it was wierd how they limited the tickets to the bottom two tiers of the stadium…
Because instead of doing what they normally do in this situation, (charge $10 per seat, first come first served) Miller Park charged their “Marquee” prices on their tickets (Cubs and STL games trigger this pricing scheme) which are about 50% more expensive. Why sell the cheap seats when you don’t have to?
Plus, I read that once the good seats sold out, they opened up part of the terrace(crappy) level for sale.
Arizona, after doing last year what the Angels are doing this year, are pretty much right at what they Pythag was last season (i.e .500). IOW I would bet against the LAAiA doing much this year in the playoffs.
I stand by my statement that the 2007 Diamondbacks were the worst team to ever make the playoffs.
You can’t really be surprised they’re down this year; they’re only in contention because they’re in the weak division.
And Juan Pierre gets his first home run in 3 days shy of 2 years!
Of course, he’s hitting in front of Manny, so what can you expect?
The 2005 San Diego Padres were the worst team to make the playoffs.
If that doesn’t shut Jeff Kent up, I don’t know what will. Asshole. Vin Scully could probably crank a few out of the park in front of Manny.
Go (rest of the) Dodgers!
I was at yesterdays game in Milwaukee, I’m not sure given the time restraints if they could have filled the seats even if they offered them for the traditional $10 a seat. Because the seats were only on the first two tiers they did not have to open all the concessions and Miller park was able to get away with less park employees.
It was a great game! Go Cubs!
D-backs are doing well, but it is too late. Nice game by Dan Haren tonight with a complete game shutout.
Let’s get Brandon Webb the Cy Young award with a 21st victory and perhaps watch Randy Johnson’s final game.
It was fun watching the Rays beat the Red Sox on Navarro’s double tonight. Hopefully they win again tomorrow and build their lead back up to two games.
It only took two weeks for the Dodgers to go from 4.5 back to 4.5 ahead. While I’d like to agree with you, I’m not ready to relax just yet. Especially since we have six games left against The Hated Ones, whom I’m sure will be ready to do whatever it takes to knock us out.
I hate baseball.
Sincerely,
Storyteller in Jersey
Sorry, too lazy to start a solo thread in GQ.
Last night, bases loaded, game tied at 1-1, Dioner Navarro hits a double. If he had hit a grand slam, the final score would have been 5-1. But since he just hit a double, the score ended as 2-1. It was a ground rule double, since the ball one hopped over the outfield wall. Why do they just score it as a single run, since a double would force in two base runners?
FWIW, Navarro was mobbed by his teammates and may have never even made it to second. Does that matter?
The answer to your second question is that it does not matter - as long as every runner touched the base he was forced to (including first, for the batter), the runner scoring is safe.
I guess, for your first question, that the only exception the rules make for “the game being over when the winning run crosses the plate” is for home runs out of the park, not for ground rule doubles. Just a quirk.
What does it take to get a government bail out around here?
I was doing fourteen things at once while watching this game, so maybe I missed it, but I thought that it wasn’t a ground-rule double. I thought it just went over Crisp’s head and rolled to the wall.
At any rate, even if it did go over the wall, I assume the scoring is that it is merely a single because the only reason the the ball hit the ground in the first place was that the fielders were drawn in. Had they been playing normally, they would have won on a sacrifice.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Hoping upon hope the Sox yank out another one tonight. And then after Cleveland it’s the big season ending do-or-die series with the Yankees …
… oh yeah … the Yankees … bwahahaha.
It gives me such perverse joy (especially since the dude in the cube next to me has this giant Yankees banner on his wall) to see them all but mathematically eliminated.
My condolences to RickJay, since it looks like the Blue Jays might be keeping Ricciardi for another year. It looks like they’d have been better off to have avoided the hot streak they’ve been on.