gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Penguin - Exploding)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2004-10-02 04:57 pm

(Insert a whole lot of swear words here)

Los Angeles Dodgers: 7
San Francisco Giants: 3


After the top of the ninth, that score was 3-0 SF. Yup, our deleted, deleted bullpen gave up seven deleted runs while only getting ONE deleted out!

Hermanson? You're fired. For impersonating a closer. You walked three batters in a half-inning.
Ransom? You're fired. For impersonating a shortstop. When you are practically handed a game-winning double-play ball, you're supposed to catch the deleted thing, not look at it and say "oh look, a baseball on the ground, how pretty!"
Franklin? You're fired. Giving up a grand slam on your second pitch of the game is not making the Penguin happy.

Felipe Alou? you're the genius who pulled Devi Cruz to put in Ransom! Retirement is looking pretty good right now...

So, the fate of the Giants now rests with the Colorado Rockies. We need to win tomorrow, and have the Rockies win their final two games against the Astros to get the wildcard.

Since the Rockies appear to have gone into "roll over and die" mode, I'm not holding my breath.

[identity profile] bunyip.livejournal.com 2004-10-02 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel your pain, mate. The Cubs rolled over and died against the Mets, Reds and then Braves.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2004-10-02 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I watched that. Pretty stunning.

But we had this game won. We won big last night. And the freaking bullpen... arg.

[identity profile] bunyip.livejournal.com 2004-10-02 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the Cubs just seem to be able to slump at once.