drsmooth wrote:Gosh, I feel like having a cookie.

CalvinBall wrote:http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8721632/

Jamie had the runs.

"Know how the bloody sock went to the Hall of Fame?" Hutton said. "Our toilet seat should go to the Hall of Fame."

MrsVox wrote:So, I've got Vox's sickness, only without the drugs, so I missed most of last night's game. Got to see the back to back HRs, and I heard the game get tied, and that's about it. If tonight goes the same, I'm going to have to record it. I'd give anything for a replay.

drsmooth wrote:Just getting up & around,

But then it happened.

Jamie Moyer, 45 years and 342 days old, was nine outs away from becoming the oldest pitcher ever to win a World Series game, or any kind of postseason game.

Until the first hitter of the seventh inning, Carl Crawford, laid down a clinic of a drag bunt down the first-base line.

We'll never know quite how Moyer even got there. But he did. He lunged. He scooped up the baseball with his glove and flipped it to first in one spectacular motion.

"The way he got over there," Howard later said, laughing, "it was ninjaesque."

The baseball floated toward first. Howard snatched it out of the air with his bare hand. An instant later, Crawford's foot hit the bag.

But then, stunningly, first-base umpire Tom Hallion flashed the safe sign.

The groans that poured out of the seats made it feel like a Bartman Moment -- Philadelphia style.

In a town that has gone titleless for 25 years, for a franchise that has won just one World Series, this had "ugly omen" written all over it. Especially when the Rays transformed it into a two-run inning that made it a 4-3 game. And even more so an inning later, when B.J. Upton willed himself to become the tying run -- with an infield single, a steal of second, a steal of third and Ruiz's throwing error.

Had this game turned into a come-from-ahead loss, Jimmy Rollins said afterward, this would have been the call Philadelphians mourned for centuries.

"Oh yeah," Rollins said. "If we'd have lost, you know they'd have been talking about this one. That's when all the good conspiracy theories come out."

"There were some jabs at Moyer that the van to the seniors home was going to leave," said Bruntlett. "You just do whatever you can to stay loose."

VFB wrote:garza is cruising for a bruising.
and burrell is his cruise director.

CalvinBall wrote:http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8721632/

Jamie had the runs.

1 wrote:

VFB wrote:garza is cruising for a bruising.
and burrell is his cruise director.

captain bruisin?

FTN wrote:

The groans that poured out of the seats made it feel like a Bartman Moment -- Philadelphia style.

In a town that has gone titleless for 25 years, for a franchise that has won just one World Series, this had "ugly omen" written all over it. Especially when the Rays transformed it into a two-run inning that made it a 4-3 game. And even more so an inning later, when B.J. Upton willed himself to become the tying run -- with an infield single, a steal of second, a steal of third and Ruiz's throwing error.

Had this game turned into a come-from-ahead loss, Jimmy Rollins said afterward, this would have been the call Philadelphians mourned for centuries.

"Oh yeah," Rollins said. "If we'd have lost, you know they'd have been talking about this one. That's when all the good conspiracy theories come out."

VFB wrote:

1 wrote:

VFB wrote:garza is cruising for a bruising.
and burrell is his cruise director.

captain bruisin?

precisely!!

just how crazy did garza come across if you were at the game?
on tv it was clear he's a s crazy as the day is long.

"I didn't know," the Phillies catcher said. "I didn't count them."