2009 MLB Season Game Thread: August

[FishFanInPA]

That Adam Jones guy is a pretty good fielder

[Namaste]

COL went in to the 9th inning down 5-0


It's 5-3 SFO now with a man on 1st.
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San Fran backs into a win vs COL

[Blackout Pact]

Renteria just hit a grand slam to put SF up 6-5 in the bottom of the 7th.

[Metes]

Ah, the old weekly ritual of muting Sunday Night Beisbol

[Namaste]

Wow ATL looks really bad tonight.


Can we has same team this week in FLA please?

[Metes]

I like how the Phils have Harry Kalas' jacket hanging in the dugout on a $0.10 Walmart plastic hanger.

[Namaste]

I like how you noticed the hangar. Nice work. My eyes never made it off of the ugly jacket.

[Metes]

I have an investigative mind. Could've made detective if I hadn't pissed it all away...

[FishFanInPA]

Darnell McDonald scored from third base on Jesse Chavez's wild pitch with two outs in the ninth inning Monday, giving the Cincinnati Reds a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the sparsely attended first game of a day-night doubleheader.

McDonald singled with one out in the ninth off Chavez (0-4), who gave up a pair of hits and then bounced a pitch that skipped through catcher Jason Jaramillo. McDonald scored with a headfirst slide into the plate.

Nick Masset (5-1) got the victory with one inning in relief.

Fewer than 2,000 fans showed up for a matchup between the NL Central's bottom dwellers, played in a hushed atmosphere that better suited a tennis match. Foul balls clattered around the 42,000-seat ballpark, and the players' banter could easily be heard by the few fans in the stands.

It was the makeup of a game rained out on April 10. A lot of bad things have happened to both teams since.

The Pirates went on yet another trading spree, getting rid of most of their starters. Only Ryan Doumit and Adam LaRoche are left from the lineup that manager John Russell wrote out on that rainy April 10 night.

For the Reds, it's been all about injuries. Every Reds starter from that game has been sidelined at some point in the season -- 18 players overall have gone on the disabled list. Joey Votto was the only Reds mainstay left in the lineup from April.

The mood matched the moment.

When the game began, 11 fans were scattered in the upper-deck bleachers in left field, attended by two ushers. When Pittsburgh right-hander Daniel McCutchen -- called up before the game and given No. 62 -- threw a 92 mph fastball for his first pitch in the majors, a fan behind the Pirates dugout yelled: "There you go!"

The next pitch was gone, a homer by Drew Stubbs into the lower deck in left. Two fans gave chase as the ball bounced up the empty concrete aisle.

After the fourth inning, the video board showed one fan surrounded by empty seats and played Eric Carmen's "All By Myself," drawing a smattering of applause and laughs from the other fans who knew the feeling.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290831217

[Ramp]

Andy Pettitte uber sexy tonight

[Longview]

Pettite has a perfect game going. Yea i said it because i don't like him or the Yankees.

[Ramp]

perfecto gone, error on Hairston

[Longview]

Thanks Jerry lol, now please give up a hit this at bat, that would be great since he should be out of this inning.

[Namaste]

Hairston obviously is not cool. calm and collected enough to be out there in pressure situations
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Andy gon meltdown now

[Longview]

Sweeeeeeet, now blow your shut out please.