Paging Dr. Smith: Seth saves Rockies with two run blast off Lincecum, team now three up in wild card chase
by Rox Girl on Aug 23, 2009 4:45 PM MDT
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PrintSeth Smith cures what's ailing the Rockies. Last night he supplied a key triple in the Rockies big comeback win. In this case, Carlos Gonzalez, one of the team's hottest hitters goes down with a cut hand and Smith steps in and provides the go ahead blow, a crushing 450 ft two run home run to right off of Tim Lincecum to help the Rockies to a 4-2 victory.
Ubaldo Jimenez had one big mistake, a second inning two run home run allowed to Edgar Renteria, only the third home run Renteria has hit all season, but otherwise pitched very well through eight innings, allowing just six hits, walking two and striking out nine. With the win he improves to 12-9 on the season.
For the Rockies on offense, hits were at a premium, Smith's home run was one of just three hits by the team off Lincecum in seven innings. In fact, through five innings they couldn't even manage one. The others were a bloop single by Todd Helton to break up the no hitter in the sixth, and a subsequent clutch single by Ian Stewart with two outs to drive him home. The Rockies did make up for the lack of hits with patience, collecting five walks off of Lincecum to drive up his pitch count and move runners along.
Giant defensive miscues and a wild bullpen led to a bases loaded situation in the eighth and Sergio Romo plunked Clint Barmes to drive in Troy Tulowitzki for the Rockies final score.
Huston Street pitched a perfect ninth for his 33rd save.
The win puts the Rockies three games ahead of the Giants, four ahead of the Braves, and five ahead of Florida for the wild card spot in the NL. With a Dodgers loss to the Cubs the Rockies also gain a game in the division standings and are once again just 3.5 games behind Los Angeles.
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Holy crap,
I cannot believe we won this game. Seth “The Clutchiest Batty McBattalot” Smith FTW!
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
Huh.
Did Gregg lose the closing job to Marmol, or is he just warn out or something?
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 4:55 PM MDT up reply actions
Gregg lost his job
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
"TuLoRocks2008 had the most comments I've seen in any game thread this year (322)...Can such a feat be eclipsed?" ..... Bring it on!!
by TuLoRocks2008 on Aug 23, 2009 4:56 PM MDT up reply actions
deservingly so
Marmol may be wild at times but i think he gives them a better chance than Gregg
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
"TuLoRocks2008 had the most comments I've seen in any game thread this year (322)...Can such a feat be eclipsed?" ..... Bring it on!!
by TuLoRocks2008 on Aug 23, 2009 4:56 PM MDT up reply actions
wow, my browser update thing showed both your post and your reply showing up at the same time
And after I made my reply, so sorry for rehashing what you said.
lol np
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
"TuLoRocks2008 had the most comments I've seen in any game thread this year (322)...Can such a feat be eclipsed?" ..... Bring it on!!
by TuLoRocks2008 on Aug 23, 2009 5:00 PM MDT up reply actions
He lost it due to giving up HR's at a O. Perez-like pace
Watching the purple row from high atop the big brown monolith on California Ave
well that and kevin gregg is kind of awful
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 7:58 PM MDT up reply actions
Hehe.
Not that it matters, but I just now caught my typo. worn*
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 24, 2009 12:35 AM MDT up reply actions
Cubs win!
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
"TuLoRocks2008 had the most comments I've seen in any game thread this year (322)...Can such a feat be eclipsed?" ..... Bring it on!!
Best part of the Dodgers loss....
Mannywomanhood goes down on strikes. Looking.
Watching the purple row from high atop the big brown monolith on California Ave
Ma'amrRam lol
Oh, and good catch on the Fat Giambi signing. I’m still completely befuddled by it, because he’s got nothing left, and can’t see why we’d make a 40-man move to bring him up. But great job on the call ahead of time.
Watching the purple row from high atop the big brown monolith on California Ave
if we just move reynolds to the 60 day
we’re not really losing anything
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 8:00 PM MDT up reply actions
But what can Giambi do for us??? I'd rather we save a move for a pitcher that may be out there before 9/1.
"I've had pretty good success with Stan Musial by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third." - Carl Erskine
Except his service time.
Not that that’s any kind of valuable.
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 8:13 PM MDT up reply actions
nasty hook
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
"TuLoRocks2008 had the most comments I've seen in any game thread this year (322)...Can such a feat be eclipsed?" ..... Bring it on!!
by TuLoRocks2008 on Aug 23, 2009 5:00 PM MDT up reply actions
I was in and out for the game.
Did Tulo make an appearance or is he back to Fighting the Flu?
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
And he pwned in one of them.
Watching the purple row from high atop the big brown monolith on California Ave
It's the word "owned", but with a p.
Started in video game culture, and spread itself to internet culture in general. It basically just means owned.
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 5:07 PM MDT up reply actions
The only significance is that it is next to O on the keyboard.
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 5:09 PM MDT up reply actions
It was probably used both ways.
P instead of O and 3 instead of E are two entirely separate traits of Leetspeak, but certainly have been combined.
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 5:14 PM MDT up reply actions
The P is
with your tongue sticking out.
The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient.
by rockieprogress on Aug 23, 2009 6:00 PM MDT up reply actions
Symbology and linguistics on the internet is complex indeed.
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 6:13 PM MDT up reply actions
Usually meant sarcastically
Or at least that’s how I usually use it.
ZOMG used to be a serious statement, and to some people, still is. But a lot of people also use it to imply exaggeration or hyperbole in a humorous, sarcastic way.
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 6:32 PM MDT up reply actions
it's the dumbest discussion ever
pay it no mind
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 8:03 PM MDT up reply actions
your mom's face is the dumbest discussion ever
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 8:09 PM MDT up reply actions
Note to prospector:
See!!??!! These kids carry on like this all the time.
"I've had pretty good success with Stan Musial by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third." - Carl Erskine
there's no limits
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 9:02 PM MDT up reply actions
Ha. Nice.
So, who’s paying attention? For some reason I read Q starting earlier and assumed Tulo on the bench.
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
Ah, gotcha.
Thanks.
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
Drew a pretty sweet walk today, for sure.
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
scored the tying run ahead of Smith on his HR.
Q also had some of the best contact off of Lincecum before that. He really does well against Timmy for some reason.
Man, that jack by Smith was a monster.
You lose some defense with Smith/Cargo, but not much else.
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
I know it's
already been stated but
DODGERS LOSE!!!!!! and Here come the Rockies
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." ~Lou Gehrig
JFK
With apologies to
Uball and Smith, thanks to SF for that one. Pretty terrible baseball played by SF, other than Lincecum, who was great until that mistake to Smith. Likewise, other than Renteria’s shot, Uball was pretty special today. A few hard hit balls found gloves, but still a terrific effort for an ace showing up to battle. I guess we’ll see this same matchup next Friday in SF?
Yeah, I think we got lucky,
but so did they. The hit ahead of Renteria’s homer was pretty weak, and if Stewie comes up with it cleanly he’s out. Tulo almost got him anyway.
On the other hand, did anybody else think that Garko gave us that first run? I was at the game, so maybe I didn’t have the best perspective, but it looked like the throw from right would have beaten Todd if it hadn’t been cut off. It looked like it would have been a little down the third base side, but still close enough to get Todd.
The Rockies are showing this year that they can win
by not playing down to the level of their competition, which is still a good sign. The team is much more fundamentally sound than most others they’ve played this year. Sometimes you get the victory just by not being stupid.
Hmm lucky...only...
SF playing poor defense and not hitting. Is that something new? You could easily say that Friday the Giants got lucky because they got some hits, because they typically don’t hit very well. This is the nature of the game. The Rockies have spent most of this season capitalizing on other teams miscues. Ubaldo pitched a great game. Would you be saying the Rox were lucky if Lincecum hadn’t been throwing a no-hitter?
Weird…
Let's get a series win on Tuesday!
Favorite player: Tulo
2nd favorite player: 10-way tie
by prettyinpurple on Aug 23, 2009 5:39 PM MDT up reply actions
Correction- Thursday
Favorite player: Tulo
2nd favorite player: 10-way tie
by prettyinpurple on Aug 23, 2009 5:43 PM MDT up reply actions
Still one more series to worry about winning first, tomorrow.
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 5:47 PM MDT up reply actions
Yep! I'm very excited about tomorrow.
Marquis vs Zito…..
Favorite player: Tulo
2nd favorite player: 10-way tie
by prettyinpurple on Aug 23, 2009 5:49 PM MDT up reply actions
I've not been as tense
during a regular season game since September of 07. What a win. I really wasn’t sure we’d beat The Freak, but lo and behold, along comes Seth with a monster blast to the second deck. Not a game I’ll forget anytime soon, that’s for sure. I feel reasonably confident against Zito tomorrow night, and would love another offensive outburst like last night’s. I’ll worry about the dang Dodgers on Tuesday.
I'll have another beer, please.
The team is finding ways to win games like this in place of games we lose due to extraordinary circumstances...
… like Monday when we finally lost Cook to injury (it really doesn’t seem Cookie’s got a full season in him).
by Greg Stanwood on Aug 23, 2009 6:02 PM MDT up reply actions
I just got back from the game,
and what a game it was. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve seen one in person, and this was about as good as it gets. I tried to get tickets through King Soopers on Thursday, but they were already sold out. Then I tried online, and everything was gone except the club level. Fortunately, I have a Wells Fargo account, so I got the two-for-one deal. When I got to the game, though, there were people still buying tickets at the window. Do they hold back some of the tickets for walk up sales? Also, are the Rockpile seats available online? It said they were sold out with the rest of them, which surprised me. I guess one downside to being in a playoff race is that tickets are harder to get, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Yes and Yes
Some seats are held back during the regular season for walk-up sales. Usually only about 1500 or so. I’m not sure about the playoffs however. As for Rockpile seats, you can buy them online but at least half, maybe more of them are held back for day-of-game sales. Kings has a finite number of seats to sell for all games, and gets shut down completely at a certain zero-hour before a game. What that zero-hour is I’ve never been able to figure out, and neither have the folks at my King Soopers.
I'll have another beer, please.
Yeah, I don't know when that is either.
In years past I’ve been able to buy those tickets within less than 6 hours of the game, but twice this year they’ve been sold out several days in advance. I guess I have to plan ahead better.
and marquis can take the NL lead in wins tomorrow...
nice, very nice…
hammer this one down, then bring on the Dodgers…
What a surreal weekend to be a Rockies fan.
Seriously.
And Seth Smith is awesome.
Seriously.
That was an awesome game
I had the good luck to be able to go – it was definitely electric at the park! Smith’s homer was an absolute bomb, and the place went completely bonkers. It was also really loud in the ninth, Street was dominating.
+1
Where were you sitting? I was in the club level down the right field line (it was all I could get at late notice; next time I’ll buy a week in advance).
I was sitting above the Mtn Ranch Club
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 8:07 PM MDT up reply actions
Rockies were only at -723/game on attendance from 2008 through yesterday's game
They should make up more ground this week with the Dodgers coming to town.
Attitude Change
Am I the only one who’s noticed that in a lot of the articles being linked, the writers, players, and even the manager are starting to use the words “Championship Team?”
Not “Wildcard Team,” not “Playoff Team,” but “Championship Team.”
I like it.
WE WERE ALL BEHIND THEM THE WHOLE TIME
you know while writing hack and slash pieces about how terrible this team is
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 8:07 PM MDT up reply actions
What a game (and weekend) for Seth Smith the "Jesus freak" on Faith Day!
Wow! Go Rockies!
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2nd favorite player: 10-way tie
Smith's AB music has been Jesus Freak all season
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 8:08 PM MDT up reply actions
Since 07, right?
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by prettyinpurple on Aug 24, 2009 12:46 PM MDT up reply actions
I think just this season
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 24, 2009 4:12 PM MDT up reply actions
On May 29, 2007 (the day of Hurdle's firing)
How many of us here even dreamed that we’d be 16 games, I repeat, 16 games over .500 and in serious position to win the NL West on August 23, 2009? Anyone? Anyone?
That we are having these discussion this year is nothing short of amazing to me. What a great time to be a Rockies fan. This may actually be more exciting than Rocktember as we head into the stretch run, and that would be freakin’ incredible.
I'll have another beer, please.
I was just hoping they would start to play competitive baseball
never daring to dream that they would be in the wildcard chase let alone the divison race. Talk about a turnaround.
"I've had pretty good success with Stan Musial by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third." - Carl Erskine
I truly believed we had the talent and that 07 wasn't a fluke
I sort of though 08 was the aberration since the same group of guys, has essentially been here for what 3 or 4 seasons now…save a few changes..
I thought we had a good team.
But had no idea it could make this kind of turn around. No way.
its easy to say now..but I always thought it was a
Hurdle/Apodaca issue…and I mostly blamed Apodaca…methinks I was wrong…
Not to plug
But did you ever read my article on Apodaca? Check out the Counting Rocks archives…
My fear was that Hurdle was no more than a developmental manager, couldn’t actually handle a mature team.
My fear was confirmed.
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 24, 2009 9:12 AM MDT up reply actions
My only hope was that we would be playing "meaningful" games in September.
We are way beyond that.
well....it's august still
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 24, 2009 9:12 AM MDT up reply actions
You shut up now
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 9:24 AM MDT up reply actions
No, I got it, it's fine
it’s quite easy to make a fanshot, there should be an option to make one on the right hand side when you’re on the fanshot option.
by bballrox4717 on Aug 23, 2009 8:24 PM MDT up reply actions
Fanshots are easy
Russ did a great tutorial on how to use them in this post.
I'll have another beer, please.
What's great (as described in the article rockhead posted)
Is that you can just drag a link to your bookmark bar and then just click on it and it’ll make a fanshot out of whatever website you’re on.
I advise that if you make fanshots from mlbtraderumors, make the shot of their source rather than the mlbtr page itself
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 9:05 PM MDT up reply actions
It feels like 2007 all over again...
Only this time it would be nice if the Rangers kept the Red Sox out of that side of the bracket.
The Red Sox are doing plenty fine on their own
Both the Yankees and Angels are playing well, though. One of these years the Yankees will wake up again; if they meet the Rockies, I hope it isn’t this year.
Leave Dexter alone! You're lucky he even performs for you!
Purple pinstripes > Blue pinstripes
"Good teams win games, horse**** teams have meetings." - Ozzie Guillen
I think I would die in my household if that happens
All 5 of my siblings = Yankee fans.
by bballrox4717 on Aug 23, 2009 10:58 PM MDT up reply actions
okay what is going on with this team...
Ian Stewart’s wife is due to give birth any day now. Didn’t Ian think about the timing of this before….:) Stretch run buddy !!
just kidding….
The child will be our good luck charm
ie Seth Smith, circa 2007
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 23, 2009 9:07 PM MDT up reply actions
I read your comment so fast
I initially read “The Child will be named after Seth Smith”
Seth Smith Stewart….hmmm
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2009 9:25 AM MDT up reply actions
and then later down the line he'll be knighted and have a son who he'll name after himself
making him
Sir Seth Smith Stewart Sr.
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 24, 2009 9:33 AM MDT up reply actions
guess rockies were waiting for me to stop following the game
i had to leave when Dexter flied out and just came back to see the great news… And all the exciting action yesterday (3 run blast by stewart) happened when i went for walk
RockiesMagicNumber
Hey what section were you in? I was in 312. That close to you?
by Rebel14 on Aug 23, 2009 9:51 PM MDT via mobile reply actions
hahaa yeah 313!
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by Andrew Martin on Aug 24, 2009 9:13 AM MDT up reply actions
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