We gotta push across a run before Yuni comes up to the plate. He's got a better chance of getting struck by lightning than he does of getting a hit with RISP
Feels like the sword of Damacles is hanging over this game. Just waiting for The Horrible Thing to happen. The only surprise will be what form it chooses tonight.
There is always the very real possibility of a corresponding Zambrano implosion... fingers crossed. edit: oh man, I didn't notice that he's up over 100 pitches already. Not enough time for an implosion. Consarnit.
Narveson bought some goodwill with his last outing against STL, but he's expended that now. I'm back to hating him. I'm pining for... Dave Bush? Dear god.
Sadly that was probably about the best chance betancourt had to get on base. Just keep the bat on your shoulder and hope that maybe Wilson gets a spontaneous case of the hiccups or something.
That would actually be cool if we were halfway smart about it. I kind of miss the Garner years sometimes...running all over the place, stealing bases, creating runs out of nothing. But this is ludicrous.
Ed Cedar is a freaking windmill over there at 3rd. How many outs at home have we made this year? I bet we didn't make this many in 162 games last year.
ill take that That was more of a "shooting my mouth off backfired in a nice way once, let's try it again" type of thing, but if I could buy saves with 60 dollars worth of bets, I think I would more often than not.
And so it is up to Yuniesky Betancourt to push across an insurance run in the 9th inning of a 1-run game. It is said that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" and "opportunity".