How's this for whiplash. Specifically turned on the Rays-A's game to find out what the big deal was with Tampa . . .
27 up, 27 down. The first A's perfecto since Catfish in '68. This is the Rays who have supposedly terrorized the American league through six weeks? Uh?
(Well, yes, when Don Larsen set down the Dodgers' lineup three times over in the '56 World Series, he did have to go through an bunch of punks named Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Junior Gilliam and Carl Furillo. Plus Dale Mitchell, batting for Sal Maglie in the ninth, who took strike three for the 27th out in 27 batters.)
The great benefit of televised baseball is that you see how close one pitch, one batted ball, one close call might turns an entire game. For AJ Burnett, it was how a ball-three pitch to Youklis missed the outside corner (either Burnett was trying for a perfect pitch or was happy to waste one) and set up a monster inning. That pitch is two inches in, catches the corner, the entire game turns.
Two inches outside. Uh oh, big inning. I haven't cared even secondarily about "Desperate Housewives" since that Spanish chick stopped boffing the yard boy, but I gave in to my wife.
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AJ actually didn't look that bad especially his curve ball. That call strike that got Girardi thrown out was certainly a strange one. Of course I didn't know that he got thrown out until 2 innings later. Joe Morgan and crew are as bad as ever.
AJ actually didn't look that bad especially his curve ball. That call strike that got Girardi thrown out was certainly a strange one. Of course I didn't know that he got thrown out until 2 innings later. Joe Morgan and crew are as bad as ever.
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