…and then there were four.
The Dodgers have been rivals with both teams battling it out for the National League pennant. For that reason, a lot of here for rooting for the Reds and Nats. But baseball is a funny game. Just when you are jubilant because your team is up by two in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs, the opponent snatches victory from the jaws of defeat.
Both the Giants and Cardinals showed True Grit by the way they grinded their way back from a probable loss and elimination. The team with the best record in the majors, the Washington Nationals, were snuffed out by the team that won 10 games fewer than Nats, the Cardinals, who barely made the playoffs by winning the number two wild card spot.
In the American League, the teams that were favored to win back in Spring Training, the Tigers and Yankees, did not disappoint the prognosticators.
May the best teams win.
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I hope that best team is not the Giants so Go Cards! Beat SF!
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The record between the Cards & Gints Is 3-3
Wow! You are fast Emma. I just finish posting and put a comment there to let people know there is a new thread, but you beat me to it.
BTW, you have been doing great work on your blog. 🙂
Wow, so many close games and dramatic finishes.
That’s why Baseball is the greatest game. There is no running out the clock. It ain’t over ’til it’s over. All 27 outs count. There are probably some ten year old Washington fans who feel like their guts were ripped out. Just like I felt when I was ten and the Giants came from behind to beat the Dodgers in 1962.
Needless to say, I am rooting for the Cardinals. I’d love to see the Tigers also….with the Tigers winning it all!
The Dodgers are expected to hire Rudy Jaramillo as their hitting coach.
The hiring isn’t official yet, but Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune reports that Jaramillo is “in line” to take over for the recently-fired Dave Hansen. Jaramillo was the highest paid hitting coach last season and let go by the Cubs in June. The rest of the Dodgers’ coaching staff has been retained.
I’m not so sure the Cards won as much as the Capitols gave it back.
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Anyone seen anything on Billz? He was supposed to start throwing a couple of weeks ago and I’ve not seen anything since.
In the case of the Giants and the Cards I’m hopping the worst team wins and I’ll definitely will be rooting for the A.L. team in the World Series no matter which of those two teams win.
Wow! Makes me feel pretty good about our closer 😉
…not to mention, the Yankees have a great manager…we have Donnie!
That’s the Yankees for you.
Well the Tigers are up 1.
Nice…they are going to win the series now!
Good to see you have High Hopes.
Jeter…fractured l…out for three months.
Another good game at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankee offense is letting them down.
We can understand that, Eh?
….they are making our offense look good 😉
This is going to be SOME series.
The Gnats & Cruds.
Cruds strike first.
I hope it’s an omen of good things to come.
Woo-Hoo….6 runs now!!
The Mets must be definitely sorry they let Beltran go.
He was probably just as glad to leave.
The Giants could have kept him too. Instead they gave up a top pitching prospect for a two-month rental.
Damn..they’re letting them right back in this!
Cruds from the second wild card?
That’s just one game, I feel like there’s a long way to go.
Hoping after tonight the gnats will be down two!
I hate the Giants as much as anyone but I think they’re going to be hard to beat.
Pagan, another guy who must be eating the Mets hearts out.
The Cruds have to put their hitting shoes on now.
They will!
Beltran keeps belting them.
Vogelsong has been the story thus far.
Let’s see how the Gnats bullpen is tonight.
I don’t think the Card will pull this one out.
Boy…ump blew another one! something has to be done about these piss-poor umpires!!!!
That was a very good catch by Jay, he ran a long way and the ump missed the call at first.
…..and, the Cards are playing crappy defense to boot!
Looks like they go to St. Louis all tied up.
AGon was on TV and predicted that the Cards and Tigers will meet in the World Series.
I hope he is right!
I’m not surprised that Giants won this second game. I kind of expected it. The series probably will favor the Cards, going to St. Louis but these teams seem pretty evenly matched.
Good Afternoon Dodger Fans! I’ve been off in Charlotte, NC enjoying a great week of NASCAR. The good thing about that (besides a great race and fan events) is I didn’t have to watch a single Giants game. Just heard/read the score at the end. At this point, it’s the Tigers and that’s it for me. Good Lord! It’s going to be a nightmare if the gnats win this thing. I will have to have their poster up in my classroom until next October. I keep the NL and AL Champs up until the new champs are crowned. Yikes!!
You remind me of when the Gnats won the ’51 playoffs. My 8th grade teacher made one of my very ardant Dodger fan classmates place a gigantic scoreboard of the game, on top and across the clothes closet and stated, “There stands the greatest finish in baseball history”.
They lost the World Series though.
nelly, maybe you should consider moving.
Watching Tigers/Yanks.
Me too.
I already know who I am going to vote for…so watching another debate is not my cup of tea right now…..thank goodness baseball is on the air!
Same here.
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Line drive HR. for Young.
Nice! I love for the Yanks to get swept.
Well this is it.
There went the shut-out.
A good move to take out Verlander, he was having trouble throwing it passed the hitters.
Whew…finally! One more Tigers!
Close but no cigar for the Yanks.
Maybe ARod should’ve started tonight despite being 3/23 in the playoff.
Career vs Verlander 24 8 1 0 3 7 4 3 0 0 .333 .448 .750 1.198
3-1 Cards…rainining.
I hate rain delays!
I’m watching MLBN, they’ll keep us posted on both games..
Me too!
ALCS game called off to be played tomorrow.
Getting ready in St. Lou.
Cruds up 2-1
YAY!!!!!
More big games coming up.
I’m ready!
I hope this series doesn’t end too soon. The Tigers might get rusty for the World Series.
I know what you mean but, I think it will end today….I wt the Tigers to win the whole thing.
This is unbelievable.
I’m surprised the Yankees kept their bullpen so quiet so long.
I feel like a jinx for the Yankees, I hardly watch them and now I’m seeing their offense at it’s worse.
Imagine that, a team with a lackluster offense.
Makes ours look pretty damn good! 😉
Yes, very familiar.
The 7 are up around here 7 o’clock, 7th innning and 7-1 score.
As soon as I wrote that the inning ended.
These Tigers better stay in baseball shape because I think it’ll be a long wait for the WS.
Very well done Tigers….now, on to watch the Cards pound Lincescum and the Gnats!
Now for the big game.
Incecum is lacking something.
The ability to throw a strike 🙂
Looks like the cruds are trying to make quick meat of the gnats.
Chubby made a flubby…lol
One thing Lincecum is not lacking tonight, so far and that is “Luck”
Damn that Pagan!
Yes….they are lighting Timmy up right now!
The Cards are building the lead.
The more, the better!
Three more outs…come on Cards, lets get this game over!
Not going to make this easy!
Yes….one more to go….and the Giants can go home!
Will this series return to SF?
Nope….Zito will run ut of luck tomorrow.
*out of luck
I understand we don’t have to watch tonight because the cruds have all ready won. The game is in the bag.
Play Ball.
gnats strike first.
Looks like we are headed back to Frisco for Sunday’s game.
And it seems I’m living with a closet gnat fan . . . . bah!
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You called that right.
Back to S.F.
It’s as good a place as any for a gnats loss 🙂
Conventional wisdom and the sports pundits had the Cards beating the crap out of Zito to such an extent I found myself hoping he would do well. I kept waiting for him to get lit up, but he kept the Cards off balance. Great performance, but too bad it helped the giants get back to Frisco.
I’m glad to see the NLCS extented a little more, so we can have some baseball while we await the World Series. I kind of expected a close series with both teams playing at their best. What confuses me is that I am anti both teams because of their good postseason records. It’s hard for me to favor one team over the other. I do know you folks on the west coast have been harassed enough lately by the Giant fans and as a fellow Dodger fan, I wouldn’t want that to get any worse.
I have a strong dislike for both teams, but it is pretty impressive how the Cards are one of those teams that the experts kind of wrote off because they were losing LaRussa and Pujols. Plus, the injuries to Wainright and Carpenter during the season made it even more unlikely that they would win. So, even though I am not a Cardinals fan, it is still better than living through another year of orange and black hell. The bandwagon fans, like vultures, are already out hovering ready to drop in at the moment they see a suffering Dodger fan, like they know more about what is going on than we do.
Well said and I agree 100%!
Here we go.
I’m ready….let’s go Cardinals!
Doesn’t look like the Cards are ready, though – sad!
It’s still early.
Now It’s getting late for the Cruds, tonight.
I hate to say this, being the baseball fan that I am, but, I tuned out after the gnats scored 5 runs……can’t take it!
Well, one more game left in this series and I for one will be glad it’s over.
Me too! Go Tigers!
UUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Man!! These games really suck!!! There! I feel better now 🙂
Well this is it the game we’ve been waiting for.
I just hope the Cards make it a game and not get steamrolled.
I do too, Sparkleplenty! GO CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crap…here they go again!
Holding the gnats to one run has a different ring to it.
Gives me some hope.
I want the Cardinals to win but the Giants now have the momentum. The fans might give the Giants the edge they need.
Rally? Go Cards!!!
I think not scoring in that inning doesn’t bold well for the Cards,
Blah! The debate is about to start – see ya all later!
I think I’ll switch to football.
Unbelievable.
The Cards are toast. Dancing with the Stars – on deck.
Well at least I know who I’m rooting for in the World Series.
This just royally sucks!! Go Tigers!!
Deal with it, gang. The Gnats earned it. Ugh……. Two World Series in the last three years. Double ugh……
Yes they did Kahli, but it’s still a very hard pill to swallow, especially, like you said, twice in 3 years. I’m happy for Marco Scutaro. After being traded from the A’s, he was being bounced around from team to team. GO TIGERS!!
Dang why couldn’t Berkman and Furcal be healthy? Pujols was surely miss and the Cards did have Punto on there team to. Beltran is just a curse on any teams that he played for and never made it to the WS and he still won’t go.
Its all been said, Im listening to the blues, LA’s Doors, next year fans! Its really hard to walk the streets.
Sucks.
The team that won obviously has character and that fire in the belly – something that the Dodgers are sorely lacking, regardless of who owns them. I for one will root for the Giants to win the Series.
You can be sent to Hell for things like that.
I’ve already been in hell for the last twenty some years waiting for my team to win something significant.
LOL!! Want to know something? Last March, while in Las Vegas for a race, I placed $10 on a variety of teams/drivers to win their respective titles. Two of those teams just happen to be the Tigers and the Giants (which I did for my hubby). I should be rooting for the Giants because I would win more money, but gotta go with the local boy (Fister) and the Tigers. I even think our local Giants fans would have a hard time cheering against Doug in game 2. No matter who wins, I will just be glad when this season is over, and get ready to move into the Hot Stove season. I need a countdown to spring training because until then I am stuck with a Giants poster on my wall – ugh!
I wavered back and forth in who I wanted to see lose. I had difficulty rooting for the Cardinals who have already won 11 World Championships, the most by any National League team. I know it will be difficult to swallow the Giants winning the World Series for the seventh time, one more than the Dodgers ( I count them all) but there’s still a chance that the Tigers can stop that from happening.
Let’s hope regardless of what happens, the Dodgers new ownership can get the team started on winning more often and being more successful in the postseason.
GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bear- that was tongue-in-cheek. couldn’t help but try to have some fun with this.