Since the 12 game winning streak ended, the Pretenders have played below .500 (4-5, winning exactly every other game), and at times an indifferent brand of ball against some bottom-feeders. While at home, the hot topics have been the post-season roster, what brand of champagne to order for the clinch parties, and what to wear to the victory parade.
How do you score from second on a wild pitch?
The Orioles did, in the ninth inning tonight, and it cost the P's the game.
Chris Davis singled off Daniel Schlereth. Kyle Hudson ran for him. Robert Andino struck out on a pitch in the dirt, that got away from Alex Avila. He couldn't find it, his pitcher didn't point to it, whatever; Hudson got to third. Matt Angle squeezed him in. Final: 6-5 Orioles. The 67-91, last place, 24 1-2 out Baltimore Orioles.
Who are 13-11 in September; nothing to really celebrate, but let's look at how they did it: split four with the Yankees, won two out of three against the D-Rays and Angels, won three out of four against the Red Sox.
They're the ones playing like they want post-season.
Oh yes ... Texas won, and the Pretenders are a game behind them in the race to avoid opening the Division Series in New York.
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They won 12 in a row. So? The "Moneyball" A's won 20 straight, in August and September of the movie. And they did win 12-11 after blowing an 11 run lead, on a walkoff pinch homer by Scott Hatteberg, who sounds like an Oakland Athletic.
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On September 4, the Cardinals were 9 1-2 out in the NL Central, and 8 1-2 out for the NL Wild Card.
They won 12 in a row. So? The "Moneyball" A's won 20 straight, in August and September of the movie. And they did win 12-11 after blowing an 11 run lead, on a walkoff pinch homer by Scott Hatteberg, who sounds like an Oakland Athletic.
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On September 4, the Cardinals were 9 1-2 out in the NL Central, and 8 1-2 out for the NL Wild Card.
Catching the Brewers proved impossible, but today's walkoff win against the Cubs got them to within two games of the staggering Atlanta Braves for the NL Bridesmaid.
And it was a classic Cubs giveaway: a bases loaded walk followed by a wild pitch, both issued by closer Carlos Marmol. Who should be thankful Carlos Zambrano is still "retired."
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And the Red Sox LOST! Were in fact thrashed, 9-1 by the Yankees on the Fox game. While the D-Rays won in Toronto and moved to within 1 1-2 of the wild card. Hahahaha Red Sox !!! All these editorials, about the bleepin' Red Sox ... and the Yankees, and the Red Sox Nation, and the bleepin Rivalry, I'm sick of it! It's a disheartening bleepin' situation we're in right now ...
And the G.I. Ants LOST! Were in fact thrashed, 15-1 in Arizona. No government issue insects in post-season. Vote early and often, for Kirk Gibson for NL Manager Of The Year.
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If both New York teams hadn't been rained out last night, today's Red Sox-Yankees game had a shot at becoming the 200,000th major league game played since 1876. Another chapter in the history of professional sports' longest and most famous rivalry would have been written, and the writers would be searching Walt Whitman for undiscovered references to the American national pastime.
Rockies at Astros instead became the milestone game. Two manufactured teams playing in a whick-whacked ball park with a toy train on its outfield wall, and a fake hill in center field. How appropiate, after all.
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