April 18, 2008
This One Goes to Two Times Eleven
The Rockies and Padres played a six hour, twenty-two inning game Thursday night into Friday morning with the Rockies emerging victorious 2-1. There was no score through thirteen innings, then both teams scored in the 14th. The Rockies pushed a run home on a bases loaded walk. Bard singled with the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning, but Tony Clark could not score from second.
Seven more scoreless innings went by before Taveras reached on an error, went to third on a stolen base plus error, and scored on a Tulowitzki double. The earned run average for the game was 0.41.
Peavy and Francis started and each pitched marvelously, but all they came away with were short shutouts and lower ERAs. Kudos to Wilfredo Ledezma and Kip Wells. Ledezma pitched five scoreless innings in relief, while Kip threw the last four innings for the win. The game story is here.
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PETCO strikes. Really, something should be done about the park. It's become almost a joke, especially at night. If Coors was such an outrage that they had to tame it with the humidor, something should be done about that black hole of offense in San Diego.
Yeah, there were a couple very long balls that I was thinking might have gone out in other yards.
A couple of guys went into slumps in only 1 game
Baseball's go to die in Petco...that place sucks. It's like watching baseball played in goo...it's really the only thing wrong with the City of San Diego.
It's worth noting that Alfonso Marquez absolutely gave this game away in the 14th on two occasions. He called strike three to a Rockie, ball three and the next pitch pushed in a run. Then, in the bottom of the 14th, Colt Morton took ball four which should have pushed in a run, but was instead called a strike. It's hard to ask a team to win a game more than once.
Right -- like I'm sure he *wanted* to ump until 1:30 in the morning.
