Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 18, 2004
Bottom of the 9th

Beltran (who made a great catch earlier), gets only the third hit of the night leading off the 9th. He's on first for Bagwell.

Update: Bagwell hits a foul fly that hits the roof, so the Cards can't catch it. He stays alive on the ceiling shot.

Update: Bagwell flies out to Edmonds in right-center.

Update: Beltran steals 2nd with no throw. He's perfect stealing since coming to the Astros.

Update: With first open, they walk Berkman to pitch to Kent. Kent hits the first pitch for a three-run homer over everything in left! Astros go up 3-2!

This is turning out to be like the 1987 World Series, where the Cardinals won 1 & 2 at home, lost three in a dome, then came home to take the series, winning games six and seven. What a night for baseball! see correction.

Correction: This is what happens when I don't enough sleep. The 1987 World Series was the opposite of what I wrote above. St. Louis lost two in the dome, won three at home, then lost the last two in the dome. So the only thing in common there is the dome losses and the home victories.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:13 PM | League Championship Series | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Wow- David REALLY doesn't like the Twins. Now he is taking away our first world series win !!!!

:)

1987 world series for the record:
Twins win games 1 &2 in the dome, lose 3,4,5 AT St. Louis, then win 6 (Hrbek grand slam) and 7 (Gagne infield single) back at the dome.

At the time, the Dome wasn't considered to be such a bad place. Especially after we broke ABCs noise meter in game 6 (I could barely hear for hours after that game)

Ivan

Posted by: Ivan at October 18, 2004 11:48 PM

You beat me to it, Ivan! Nice catch.

Nice thing about this game was that it was under 4 hours. Don't get me wrong, I love baseball, but there's something wrong with so many games going over 4 hours. Where's Frank Robinson and his speed-up-the-game ideas when you need them?

Posted by: CW at October 19, 2004 01:23 AM

Uh, Dave, think you got that backward....

Posted by: Rebecca Allen, PhD at October 19, 2004 03:24 AM

I agree about the time of games. I have become a TIVO addict. I don't start watching until an hour after it starts and then FF through commercials.

Ivan

Posted by: Ivan at October 19, 2004 03:26 AM

I think it's something to do with Joe Torre. I don't know what he does, but it seems like every postseason game he manages lasts at least 4 hours.

Posted by: Adam Villani at October 19, 2004 11:36 AM