10/19′s thrilling NLCS action
DMZ · October 19, 2006 at 4:27 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Wheeeeeee! Suppan v Perez! I don’t know about you, but I’m locking the door and leaving the phone off the hook. This one’s going to be a barnburner! Can we just flip a coin to declare who gets sacrificed to the Tigers and get it over with?
Or am I being too pessimistic about this whole series? What’s a good reason to hang around and see tonight’s game?
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‘less the score is tied at 20-20 goin’ into the 10th inning, there’s no reason to watch Game 7 of the ’06 NLCS.
Or am I being too pessimistic about this whole series? What’s a good reason to hang around and see tonight’s game?
To see the Cardinals. Go Cards!!!!!
Well, if the Cardinals win, we can all party like it’s 1968.
I dunno there is sort of a train-wreck fascination to these two pitching staffs… A Battle of the Bullpens Smackdown.
although it seemed he was a lock to go to Chi with Lou, KJR sez the M’s just announced that John McLaren is Hargrove’s new bench coach. Think Johnny Mac feels odds are that he could actually be named a big league manager mid-season here?
What’s a good reason to hang around and see tonight’s game?
There might only be four games after it until next April?
Albert Pujols is the best hitter in baseball?
Yadier Molina might get to show off his howitzer arm?
Maybe Jim Edmonds gets to show off his arm?
Perez gets lots of strikeouts, so maybe you get to watch the Cards go all Three True Outcomes tonight?
David Wright is dreamy?
Okay, okay, I got a little carried away on the last one–I was trapped under Tim McCarver’s trance for a second. I’ll be watching, but it’s certainly not the most compelling NLCS Game 7 in history.
What’s a good reason to hang around and see tonight’s game?
Truck commercials! Lots and lots of truck commercials!
hey, it’s true!
I like the Rosa Parks/Martin Luther King/John Cougar truck commercial the best. Very tasteful.
why, that one is Derek’s favorite– a fine reason for him to watch the game, right there.
Go Cardinals!
Perez doesn’t last 3 innings.
JI, God-willing!
But I’m still anxious. Oliver (ex-Card) will then shut them down.
As long as the came is decently close when Wagner enters!
Tim McCarver is doing the game? Tim Freakin’ McCarver? Timmy M? My gosh people….a former catcher will be doing the game. How much more informative could that be? I’m going to get a notepad to copy some of his insight down… Tim McCarver? Are you sure? No kidding?
Geesh, people have to ponder why they should watch?
Re #11
Sorry, that was the super fan getting the best of me. But you have to admit the matchup favors STL.
Let’s go Mets!
Delgado’s defense is “scary bad” after all.
Scor it “E-3,” Timmy.
Because anything can happen in a short series, so we might be seeing a crucial element in the story of who wins the 2006 world series.
Too bad that error didn’t hurt the mets…
Score
Anyways, that went well for the Mets.
Since when is a seven game series considered a short series? I thought that moniker was reserved for a five gamer.
Durned tags…
Best of 7 is still pretty short for baseball.
Game 7′s are cool no matter who’s playing in them.
well, thank goodness, someone at the Mets kindly explained to Dave Campbell last night that the song they sing when Reyes is up to bat is ‘a popular soccer song in Europe’…
You know, if you put together all the pitchers these two teams have on the DL and somehow got them all healthy, you’d actually have a decent rotation. Unfortunately for them, that’s not going to happen — and who ever survives this trainwreck gets to immediately fly to Detroit (Detroit! Outdoors! In late October!) I wonder what the Tigers have been doing with all this free time to rest up — other than watching these games, of course, and hurting their necks shaking their heads (what must one of best defensive teams in baseball think of the Shaw Green – Scott Spiezio muffed-catch tit-for-tat, or really any of the fielding we’ve seen so far?)
Mat, I’m with ya. The idea of there only being a maximum of 8 games of baseball left until April will make me tune into any series. Throw in the fact I’ve always loved watching games where one team might get so desperate, that everybody in the pen might get to throw an inning and I’m set. Getting to watch Pujols, Delgado, Beltran, Wright, and Reyes is simply icing on the cake. COME ON METS!
LaRussa should give Hargrove lessons on when and when not to bunt.
For all you math majors out there:
If Perez is hitting 92-94 MPH on the Fox gun, how hard is he really throwing?
Would McCarver just go away? “A saftey squeeze is….” Hey Timmy, most of us watching baseball aren’t morons!
If Perez is hitting 92-94 MPH on the Fox gun, how hard is he really throwing?
I get the feeling that Fox figured out that they were too obvious about the gun-juicing early on and have racheted it back some. At least for now. Maybe.
Would McCarver just go away? “A saftey squeeze is….†Hey Timmy, most of us watching baseball aren’t morons!
I’d be willing to bet that at least a quarter of the viewing audience doesn’t know the difference between a safety squeeze and a suicide squeeze off the top of their head–that is, of course, if they even know that there’s more than one kind of squeeze play. Bringing the topic up is perfectly defensible, but McCarver’s style of speech makes it more annoying than it should be for people who already know the difference.
So why is Encarnacion batting behind Pujols again?
#31: good lord man…..its because he is one of the few guys on he cards roster that can actually hit a lefty…..
31
So the Mets can maximize their DP chances.
.316/.346/.492 — Encarnacion vs. LHP in ’06
I just realized that one of things I really like about the Joe Buck/McCarver broadcasts is that they do spend a good portion of the time shutting up. It’s rare, and pretty cool.
#34: which is hall of fame compared to the rest of the roster….
35
I will give Timmy that much.
How many more times will TLR let Preston Wilson strike out before he puts in a batter that can, you know, hit?
I like how the fans cheered a potential injury there. Really classy.
Preston needs to pull his head out.
That doesn’t bode well for St.Louis.
Encarnacion is a bum.
If the game gets rained out late, do they start over from the first or resume where they left off?
Still bored?
Unfuckingbelievable catch.
FUCK!!!
Woooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaah!
Are you kidding me?!
What’s a good reason to hang around and see tonight’s game?
How about that catch by Endy Chavez? Holy crap.
Damn, nice catch. Poor Rolen, his best hit of the series taken away…
Oh man. Perez better buy that man a beer.
Big deal, Floyd totally would have had that
No fucking way. That did just not happen. I’ve never seen a sure homerun turned into a double play. No fucking way. Unfuckingbelieveable.
LOL Goob.
And I’ll stop beating that horse now.
Oh, and Willie? Get Perez out of there. Thanks.
Perez definately owes a beer.
Also, I love how Chavez had to look in the glove before tossing it back in, as if even he couldn’t quite believe he made the catch.
Perez definately owes a beer.
More like a keg.
Now THAT’s a double play.
#29, 30 Fox Radar guns
Here is an article from MLB talking specifically about this post-season and how pitchers speeds have been measured. Very enlightening.
Measuring pitch speed
That was a dang good catch by Endy.
Also, I love how Chavez had to look in the glove before tossing it back in, as if even he couldn’t quite believe he made the catch.
Well yeah, the ball was barely in his glove. Snowcone city.
That was shades of Barfield v. Griffey. Wow. What a grab.
I’m going to drink until I can’t feel feelings anymore.
I still can’t believe he caught that.
People are putting it up on youtube even as we speak.
Well yeah, the ball was barely in his glove. Snowcone city.
Good point. It would have been a shame had he managed to snag the ball, only to have it pop out as he brought his glove back down.
Now here’s to hoping Randolph listens to ya and sits Perez next inning.
Oh man, bad karma for Rolen.
Wow, Scott Rolen is having a rather rough inning.
Rolen is broken.
I think what made that catch so amazing is that it was a complete long shot. When Griffey made his homerun robbing catches, he knew that he had it the whole way. This one was Chavez just trying anything to save the game and it somehow worked.
I loath Endy Chavez.
Rolen, you had all day on that throw. Keep it simple!
Go Suppan, don’t let Endy Chavez be any more of a hero!
Come on, guys.
I wanna have Jeff Suppan’s baby!
Good work by Suppan to get out of that jam.
Jason gets his wish.
Bradford’s a machine.
Man, the Mets’ bench is awful.
The annoucer on ESPN radio just refered to “God Bless America” as a “delay.” Hee, hee.
What, Michael Tucker doesn’t cut the mustard?
Definitely starting to come down harder.
Tigers are doing a rain dance. Deplete all pitchers.
Tucker, Franco, Hernandez… bad bench, even with Chavez on it.
They should move the game upstate. It’s not raining here.
If Suppan and Weaved had pitched like this during the regular season, St. Louis would have won 110 games.
Alright kids, on three: 1-2-3 RUNS!
What’s so sad about the Met bench is that Tucker is the Ace Pinch Hitter. It hasn’t mattered much so far this season though…
Here’s the rather bizarre answer to my rainout question:
“What makes even less sense is that some tie games ARE suspended and picked up where they left off — but only if the visiting team has just tied the score in the top half of an inning and the home team hasn’t completed its at-bat in the bottom of the inning. We ask again: Huh?”
http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stark/545503.html
The Speeez is on deck.
Man, I was hoping to watch Wilson strike out again. We get the Speez instead?
The Spiez. Shine Spiez, shine.
Well, he’s clutch dontcha know.
And we yet again get to listen to Buck talk about all the post-season heroics of Speez! Yeeeeeea!
The Spiez peed his panties on that strike three down the middle.
The Spiez peed his panties on that strike three down the middle.
back again (dang those real life interruptions) just in time to see Speez sit down. ahhhh.
I see the plan is to give Albert the Bonds Treatment from here on out.
sorry JI
No more Spez, perhaps for the year.
oh boy!
So Taguchi! The only non-Mariner from Japan!
yes, i’m aware of the matsui (non)brothers
Too bad Beltran doesn’t run anymore.
Spiezio, Scott
Post-season statistics
Year TM G AB R H OBP SLG OPS AVG
2006 StL 2 5 1 1 .200 .200 .400 .200
2006 StL 5 16 3 4 .333 .563 .896 .250
“Literally.”
huh. Beltran’s middle name is Ivan. who knew.
I’d forgotten he had 41 SBs in ’03, and 42 in ’04 — and then 17 & 18 once he got to the Mets.
Tony’s either stalling or feeling really adventurous right here.
And there were those two years when he was caught ONCE, combined…
Have to save those million dollar legs.
Cool thing about former-Beltran is that he had really good caught stealing percentages.
Perhaps TLR and Randolph are trying to undermanage each other? See who can make the more insane pitching match up and get away with it.
Cool thing about former-Beltran is that he had really good caught stealing percentages.
18 SB vs. 3 CS this year isn’t too shabby, either.
Gaaaaah.
Surprised AND wrong.
“I was both suprised and wrong…”
-Tim McCarver
It’s the first step.
18 SB vs. 3 CS this year isn’t too shabby, either.
Not too shabby at all, wasn’t aware of his end of season stats.
I owe someone a coke.
That’s gotta be the theme of Timmy’s life
I could watch that catch all night.
I’d send up Duncan.
Just saying…
yes, i agree
the snowconity (snowconus?) of the catch makes me giggle.
Frickin’ Molina?!
why did they put Wagner in?
OMFG WTF
Well that sucked.
F*** me, I’m stupid!!!
Yuck — Valentin, Chavez, Franco(?) for the Mets;
Yadir .200 Molina! WOOH
OTOH, it’d be fkn hi-larious of Valentin and Chavez got on and Franco homered to win the game.
Un****ing believable! I love it!
You know, everyone has been worried about the Mets’ pitching all series, but it has been the offense that’s let them down. It’s been pretty awful, actually.
Wow. If the Cardinals can win with a Yadier Molina HR, pretty much anything’s possible. The Tigers had best be afraid.
the fans’ faces are priceless
119: I’m more of an Anderson Hernandez guy myself.
Tommy, the guy’s wearing a Cubs jersey. You have to ask the wife what his team is? C’mon.
3 outs from 1968. And ironically, the talk today has been about whether current situation in Iraq is the insurgency’s Tet Offensive.
The Mets could use some Tet Offensive.
I should’ve known once I started cheering for the Mets they’d lose.
OK, OK.
The Mets could use any offensive.
Ok, ok, I take it back, I take it back. They could still make it!
If I was in charge of a team, I would make my alternate road jerseys greenscreen-green, making it impossible to put ads up behind my players without making them disappear.
You’re down two runs. Why are you bunting?
Ooooookay.
Floyd! I forgot about Floyd!
Chavez was showing bunt for a hit.
I can’t wait to see Floyd win this. Floyd is my man. Nothing would make me happier.
here comes the double play
I’d make my road jerseys covered in ads that clash with the sponsors of the opposing team. E.g. I’d have “COORS” across the front of the jerseys when I played in St. Louis.
Woosh.
Has this been shown here before? Kinda interesting.
Go _____________! (My interest in these two teams is showing.)
Was leaving Heilman in with Wagner in the pen at all equivalent to Hargrove leaving Mateo in a tied-in-the-9th game with Putz in the pen? Comparing Heilman to Mateo is probably an insult, but it still seems like the same theory–if you’re going to lose late, make them beat your best guy.
Go METS!
Another high strike.
I think he got him.
Wow.
Wow, nice pitch
Down goes Floyd, down goes Floyd!
fuck you floyd
That’s a nasty curve.
Cmon Jose!
Floyd sucks
Reyes I’ll like you even if you don’t get a hit. But please get a hit.
Ugh. Two strikes.
That curve drops through the strike zone. I’m not sure how you could hit it successfully.
At least we know Reyes isn’t going to try for a home run like Floyd was.
Bummer. He hit it hard.
nice try reyes
Almost.
Take one for the team!
Step into it!
It hurts me to watch the leg buckle
this game is over.
Patience, patience.
let yourself walk. please yourself walk.
Oh boy.
DRAMA
damn
LO DUCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 YEA!!!!
Ok, so this Beltran fellow is pretty good, right?
Man, every kid in every sandlot forever has done this:
“It’s game seven, down by two, two out, two on, and I come to the plate….”
Beltran looks nervous
Ugh.
oh man
Well, what are you gonna do with that.
FUCK YOU BELTAN!!! I AM SO GLAD WE DIDN’T SIGN YOU!!!
and now, I’m a Cardinals fan.
Good Lord.
That stadium is library quiet.
Well, I can’t say I care much about this World Series matchup at all.
WOO HOO! Wow, K’d Beltran looking with the bases juiced. AMAZING!
that was such a dirty pitch
That’s what I love about the postseason is the ability to hate one team with a passion (the Cards), and then love tehm in the next series.
You gotta swing at that, Beltran!
There is no joy in Mudville–mighty Carlos has struck out.
dude, what’s with the rolen and larussa back-slapfest?
Yep. The two teams playing the absolute worst before the post season started are going to the World Series.
You definately gotta swing, given the situation.
Well, I guess we’ll see if the Cards can do the impossible.
sigh. so does this mean the Mets fans go back to hating Beltran? Dammit. I am so tired of hearing about Spiezio.
#134– seems like the D-Rays are the perfect green-screen jersey experiment….
Thank you for not talking for so long here Timmy! I can hear the knees buckling all the way to NYC.
Suppan has to be the the LCS MVP by a Country Mile.
Baseball at its finest tonight. And my two favorite teams in all of baseball after the poor pathetic Mariners are in the World Serious. Life is good.
I hate the Cardinals and the umpire. As an umpire your main rule is to be consistent in calling the same location a strike/ball and he sure wasn’t.
Cardinals to the World Series. That means at least 4 more games with closeups of Scott Spiezo and his facial hair. Woo-hoo!
Scott Spiezio in the WS.
How can someone that was under the Mendoza line as a Mariner (82 for 414 = .198 BA) be in the World Series?
Well it all evens out in the end… The Cardinals set the standard with Scott Spiezio on their WS roster, and the Tigers only raise the stakes with Neifi Perez!
It would be the ultimate irony in “small sample size theater” if one of those players walked away with the MVP!
#198– the same reason that a .216 AVE/.274 OBP/.321 SLG batter hits the home run that gets the team to the WS?
Take that, Fox. Let’s see what a Detroit-St. Louis series does for your ratings.
might not be too OT, see no. 4
The intro to this game thread really bugged me. I would agree that the Tigers are the better team, but what makes everyone forget that anything can happen in the playoffs? A couple guys from a weaker team get hot at the right time and that team advances. Or maybe a couple fly balls go 365 feet for outs instead of 370 feet for homers. This happens every year. Would anyone here argue that if this W.S. was played 100 times, the Cards might win 30-40 times?
I really couldn’t care less about either the Cards or the Mets, but that game was awesome. THATS the reason that you watch baseball in the playoffs. Anytime someone dismisses a postseason game, they forget that almost anything can happen in the course of a game, or even a series.
Just seems like intelligent people are forgeting some fundamental sample size principles…
oops
#198. “How can someone that was under the Mendoza line as a Mariner (82 for 414 = .198 BA) be in the World Series?”
In spite of him, not because of him
I want the Tigers to win, so hopefully this is The Curse of Scott Spiezio, Part II.
Remember that Spiezio has never been as bad as he was here. In Bavasi’s words, his “brain exploded” when he was in Seattle.
206: How could they tell? I’m picturing a tiny puff of dust.
#206, Hargrove could make a thinking person’s brain explode.
I’m not implying that Spezio is a thinking person, btw. I believe we have sufficient evidence to indicate that he is not.
On the theory that everything is online, I just checked. Yup,
Mendoza Line on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendoza_line
I think DMZ needs Tommy Lasorda to show up and tell him “Watch the damn games! You’re a baseball fan!”
Yep, but didn’t Spiezio have some personal issues? I thought he and his wife were seperating due to some infidelity on his part?
#199: Don’t forget that the Tigers also have Ramon Santiago AND Carlos Guillen. It’s just a cornucopia of former Mariners!!!!
I would be willing to give it to the Cards due to the fact they let Nellie go before ST ended.
“It’s your duty, Judy!”
2004 was the marital collapse year– some say due to infidelity — the divorce was final at the start of 2005. 2005 he arrived at ST thinner (due to the ‘stop eating like a college student’ diet), strained his back/oblique in April, ended up playing 29 games, got a tattoo, was released in Aug., had the cab run-in with his girlfriend in Oct– I guess since then they’ve married & he seems to have settled down again…
I am very sad that a portion of my brain contains this information.