August 19, 2008
Winning Late
The Rays and Blue Jays each took leads in the eighth inning to win their games, and the Mets are trying to join them. Carlos Delgado came up with the bases loaded and the Mets trailing 3-2 and launches a double off the wall in left. That scored two and New York takes a 4-3 lead. They're still batting in the bottom of the eighth.
Update: Easley singles home two more and the Mets lead 6-3. The offense is trying to give the bullpen a big cushion.
Update: The Mets score five in the inning, erasing the save situation.
Update: The Braves get a single in the top of the ninth but that's it. The Mets bullpen pitches 2 2/3 scoreless innings and earns the win tonight.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Re that hideous call in the Rays-Angels game. Here's how the replay system should work, since so many umpires are relentlessly incompetent. There should be an ex-player in the tv booth reviewing every call except balls and strikes. Each ump gets and earpiece so the guy in the booth can talk to him, and a battery pack with electrodes attached to his 'nads. With every missed call, the guy in the booth gets to scream in the ump's ear that he screwed it up, the ump has to change the call, and he gets zapped, with voltage increasing with each blunder. Do you love it? I knew you would.