Posted on 10/23/2005 3:27:12 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Game 2 Live Thread! Chicago leads series 1-0
Pettite vs. Buehrle
It did look like the ball hit the bat and deflected down.
It also looked like Qualls' first pitch collided with the bat and became a grand slam.
Hit, strikeout, a walk--tying runs on.
I know you're kidding (as least I think you are) and I don't really think that's what happened, but y'all explain something to me I've been wondering for years.
What would stop a baseball umpire from "calling" a game? I'm NOT talking about this game; I'm talking about just in general. What would stop an umpire from taking 100K in a Swiss bank account in exchange for a few crucial calls? Or what would stop a La Cosa Nostra deal where the ump wants his family to stay safe?
No fair laughing at this question. I'm not a huge baseball fan but I've always wondered about this. :-)
I've seen my share of bad first pitches. I think Aaron Boone's HR in the '03 ALCS to send the Yanks to the World Series (off
Wakefield) was a first pitch.
like I said earlier...want some cheese?? think about it...if any of those calls went the other way..., and Houston was the benefactor...does it discount how good the Sox are???
Leni
2 outs, now runners at second and third. PH coming--Vizcaino
guy on 2nd and 3rd, 2 out. Play this right and we can pull ahead again.
C'mon 'Stros! Please!
Tie game! Unbelievable!
YES YES YES!!!!!
Leni
Go Stros!!!
almost thought they might get the second runner to end the game --"great slide by Burke" though
Yeah but it is inexcusable that he didn't learn from Lidge's mistake a week earlier, instead repeating it on his first pitch. Inexcusable. I have some sympathy for Lidge, none for Qualls. The Astros should trade him in the off-season, once a bonehead always a bonehead.
Luckily the bats may have just saved him.
Vizcaino delivers! Jenks is gone...
Can you believe it?
Amazing
Way to encourage them Miztiki.
Oh, yeah! 6-6!
Wasn't that great?! Woo Hoo! We need at least one more run. I won't feel good unless we get one more run.
That was awesome!
its not over yet!!!
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