Game 50: A’s/Tigers ← FREE KRAUT!

Game 50: A’s/Tigers 38

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Man attempts to tame nature; 2-0 in the eighth.

Also: Texas has already lost, so the A’s can regain first place with a win tonight.

Also also: Kendry Morales injured in dog pile at home plate after hitting walk-off grand slam against Mariners. It’s okay to laugh. I think it’s funny, too. Video here.

UPDATE:Kendry has a broken ankle, could miss rest of season. I wonder what conspiracy theory Rev will cook up this time. Anti-cuban state department baseball espionage?

38 thoughts on “Game 50: A’s/Tigers

  1. salb918 May 29,2010 6:10 pm

    Oh man, right off of Laird’s face.

  2. salb918 May 29,2010 6:11 pm

    Woo-hoo! I like this. Too bad none of you FKers are around to witness it. What, you’re all busy having lives on a Saturday?

  3. salb918 May 29,2010 6:12 pm

    Halladay working on a perfecto, going into the ninth.

  4. salb918 May 29,2010 6:23 pm

    One more out for Halladay…

  5. salb918 May 29,2010 6:24 pm

    PERFECTO!!!

  6. batgirl May 29,2010 6:25 pm

    Wow–I just flipped over. Good for Halladay. Two in one year–holy Toldeo!

    • batgirl May 29,2010 6:27 pm || Up

      Also, I just noticed it was a 1-0 game so that’s a pretty tense game all around.

    • Soaker May 29,2010 6:33 pm || Up

      The Marlins could have shown a little more respect for the achievement by letting that moment linger for a while, rather than shutting off the lights and starting their fireworks show or concert within a couple minutes after the final out. Not much of an appreciation of the history down there in Miami.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • nevermoor May 30,2010 8:08 am || Up

        Electricity ain’t cheap.

        Also, how close were the previous closest ones?

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. batgirl May 29,2010 6:25 pm

    Also, our A’s game is pretty cool too! Hi Sal!

  8. salb918 May 29,2010 6:42 pm

    Victory! First place!

  9. lenscrafters May 29,2010 6:58 pm

    How stupid are the Giants? After hemming and hawing over the Posey situation for the first two months, refusing to call him up, they finally call him up today….when they could’ve waited a week or two more. Did they not learn anything from the Lincecum situation?

    • mother pucker May 29,2010 7:40 pm || Up

      Sabean’s comments on the radio this week, about how he had no idea what to make of a batter hitting .344 in AAA and how that would translate were not very encouraging.

      By the way, the Lewis trade is really working out nicely for them.

      • lenscrafters May 29,2010 7:47 pm || Up

        I don’t get the Lewis DFA. His .327 wOBA in ’09 was third on the team behind Sandoval and Uribe.

  10. mikeA May 29,2010 8:33 pm

    Wooo first place!

  11. mikeA May 29,2010 8:34 pm

    Morales=hilarious. The Angels are done.

    • andeux May 29,2010 9:22 pm || Up

      So, two-team race, Rangers and A’s?

      TINSTAAFK
      • mikeA May 29,2010 9:42 pm || Up

        Looks that way. I was not expecting the A’s to get back to first this year. The Rangers have an absurdly/terrifyingly easy schedule until the AS break, but I like the A’s chances if they’re not too far back in at that point.

      • lenscrafters May 29,2010 10:11 pm || Up

        I wouldn’t count the Mariners out. They’ve been frighteningly similar to the A’s this year; the disparity in records is amazing. Their pitching has been better, their defense has been slightly better. Offensively, they’ve been horrible obviously but so have the A’s. I wouldn’t expect their hitters to keep underperforming the way they have been.

        The biggest difference is the disparity in one run games. Are the A’s fortunes (and the M’s misfortunes) in that regard repeatable?

        • mikeA May 29,2010 10:27 pm || Up

          I don’t think they’re any worse than the A’s, but 7 games is a lot.

          • lenscrafters May 29,2010 10:36 pm || Up

            It is but my point is that the A’s could easily start losing a lot more of those one run games and experience a M’s like swoon. While the M’s could just as easily have better luck and start pulling off a bunch of winning streaks (they certainly have the pitching for that).

            • FreeSeatUpgrade May 29,2010 11:44 pm || Up

              I still think the A’s will finish in last. It will of course bring me no joy to be proved correct.

              BTW, if anyone’s considering In The Heights at the Curran, save your money. Snooze…

              "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
              • andeux May 30,2010 9:08 am || Up

                You guys manage to make me look like a wild-eyed optimist.

                TINSTAAFK
                • monkeyball May 30,2010 9:17 am || Up

                  You see FK, andeux was a simple country boy — you might say a cockeyed optimist — who got himself mixed up in the high stakes game of sabermetrics and interleague intrigue.

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • lenscrafters May 30,2010 6:46 pm || Up

                  On second thought, since the M’s continue to find innovative ways to give away ball games (catcher’s interference leading to a run, 2 bases loaded walks, second straight day they give up a walkoff homer), it’s probably just not their year.

  12. FreeSeatUpgrade May 29,2010 11:49 pm

    In other news:

    1. Halladay is awesome. But the Phillies, jaded by all their post-season mound-rushings of recent years the broken legs and dreams of Angels, were way too restrained for the moment.

    2. Lakers vs. Celtics. Snooze…

    3. Every time I climb back on a hockey bandwagon it drives into the ditch. Fucking Flyers…

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • batgirl May 30,2010 9:23 am || Up

      1. I totally agree. When it was all over, Halladay sort of wandered towards the catcher like it was just another victory. And judging from his post-game presser, he’s not exactly Mr. Personality. Plus, it would be nice if such a memorable game had occurred in Philly. There’s something about doing it on the road that really dulls it down.

      • monkeyball May 30,2010 10:06 am || Up

        TNWPMcCS

        There’s something about doing it on the road that really dulls it down.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  13. batgirl May 30,2010 9:32 am

    Dontrelle Willis DFA.

    • Leopold Bloom May 31,2010 8:35 pm || Up

      I’d take a flyer on him. Obviously, he’s a head case. Maybe returning home would cure what ails him. Make him a reliever.

      • lenscrafters May 31,2010 8:43 pm || Up

        Eh, since he’s on waivers, a NL team will pick him up before the A’s have a chance to.

        • green star oakland May 31,2010 8:54 pm || Up

          Taking him off waivers means picking up the rest of his salary ($12 million this year). Waiting till he’s a free agent and paying league minimum seems like the way to go.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
          • Leopold Bloom May 31,2010 8:57 pm || Up

            and if he’s a free agent, he can sign with anyone, right?

          • nevermoor May 31,2010 8:59 pm || Up

            True. But I think he wants to be in AZ.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • Leopold Bloom May 31,2010 9:01 pm || Up

              huh. Well, okay. He may think the AL is his problem.

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