Posted on 10/16/2010 9:18:02 AM PDT by frogjerk
Robin Ventura,
The only man ever to get 6 hits off Nolan Ryan in one inning!
Er, seven, but who is counting?
I don’t know if the 7th inning stretch was broadcast, but when God Bless America was being sung they showed W on the big screen. He wass loudly cheered, not a single boo could be heard. That said, the crowd was rather obnoxious. Never been to Yankee stadium but I imagine that is what it must be like. Seeing Nolan on the mound again was the highlight of the game along with Josh’s home run and the flyover. The Rangers stuck with this manager and now it is evident the crack addled old boy is not up to the task. CJ pitched a great game, and was pulled too early. So he gave up a double to Jeter, and they got lucky on an infield single. He could have been given one more batter to face as they had a 4 run lead. But this manager is out of touch and simply falls back to the pitch count trend of 110 and out. No real thought here, just a trend-driven formula. And one of failure. So could CJ have really done any worse? What was washington thinking, he was protecting his arm? Yeah, that worked well for Strasburg didn’t it? I remember Nolan throwing in excess of 150 pitches regularly and doing it in a 4 man rotation. Funny thing, he played in 27 years in the majors. Noone else in the history of the game ever did.
Rangers and Nolan were put in between a rock (no pun intended) and a hard place when this asshole finally owned up to smoking crack and lying about it to them... during the middle of spring training. I have said it before and I will say it again... a manager can not win a ballgame, but he can damn sure find a way to lose one. Give the Rangers credit, they went through a lot this year and made it this far. I can’t speak for ALL of their fans, but Nolan certainly deserves better.
but Nolan certainly deserves better.
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Sure does. I didn’t know that about the
mgr .. what a scumbum .. and I thought
as I watched:
he kinda has that street hardened look.
Put Nolan in!
If the Yanks can’t win, can’t think of a
better team to grab the pennant than the
Rangers.
Lucky you! I was flipping channels that night and happened across the game. I saw the box score and I decided to watch it in case something “magical” happened. I’m glad I did and it’s one of my fondest baseball memories.
I agree, the Rangers have gotten this far, in spite of Ron Washington, and he showed last night he doesn’t know how to manage pitchers.
I knew as soon as Darren Oliver came in, we were going to lose the game.
Kind of like ramming TARP in the bottom of the 9th of your administration eh, George?
If the Rangers were smart, they would can Washington and replace him with Clint Hurdle. Hurdle is the reason the Rangers have made it this far, and would be a much better manager.
Can’t figure out if that ss dude is eyeballing Ruth because she still looks great at her age or he thinks she might go off on w for setting us up for the marxist...
Seems like it, doesn't it?
I got to see him pitch a no-hitter and a two-hitter in the Dome back in the 80s. Seems like both of them were late season games.
Some of my fondest memories of my youthful days are at the Dome watching Ryan, Scott, DeShaies, Cruz, Bagwell, Biggio, etc.
“I guess the Yankees be my daddy”
He's looking at Nolan and thinking all this wouldn't be happening if Dick Cheny was Pres...I mean, Nolan was pitching...Nah, he's looking at Ruth. She's a babe.
I got to see him pitch a no-hitter and a two-hitter in the Dome back in the 80s. Seems like both of them were late season games.
September 26 1981, #5. I will never forget how loud the crowd was in the dome during the 9th.
More rare than that even, I was lucky to see him hit his first homerun. Whizzed right in front above us in the 3rd base boxes (I was a Dodger fan then) as it just cleared the fence down the line.
Saw Dusty Baker while I was on the field during batting practice at Minute Maid last month and said I would always remember him for 2 things; kindly giving me an autographed, unused bat as a youngster and grounding to Art Howe to seal #5. Class act.
Ryan looks terrible. I met him in 1972, after the Mets traded him to the Angels.
Leni
And you were at that game in '81 as well...cool! I was also at the game when the Astros were trying to clinch in '86 and Nolan threw a 2-hitter. We didn't clinch that night because Cincinnati also won. The net day, Mike Scott threw a no-hitter to clinch it.
(And then, things became painful...still kind of an "ouch!" to remember Game 6 of the NLCS...afternoon game that went into the night and I was there...)
I shall blame the keyboard this time.
W and his dad did the coin toss at a Texans game I attended last fall (right about a year ago.) The crowd was quite genuinely enthusiastic and it warmed my heart to see it.
This was at the annual home game that honors our troops.
Gibson had (or maybe still has) a landscaping company on Detroit's east side and a friend of mine used to work for him. Lets just say Gibson is not a very "fan friendly" guy..........which is common knowledge anyway.
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