Rockies 3, Reds 1: Eric Young Jr's first career long ball helps propel Marquis, Rox to victory.
by Bryan Kilpatrick on Sep 8, 2009 10:44 PM MDT
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PrintIt took five tries, but Jason Marquis finally picked up win number 15, using a solid outing to beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-1, giving the Rockies their fifth straight victory. He didn't get a whole lot of help from the offense, but Eric Young Jr. was the obvious exception. EY2 went 2-for-3 with a couple of runs scored, and hit his first career big league home run, a shot to left field off of Pedro Viola.
Marquis (15-10) lasted 7.1 innings and allowed just a run on four hits, and struck out a season high seven batters. The bullpen picked up the last 1.2 innings with Franklin Morales pitching a scoreless ninth, with two K's, to pick up his fifth save in as many opportunities.
Offense was at a premium in this one, as the teams combined for just eleven hits (seven were off the bats of Rockies players). No Red had more than one hit, while only Young managed more than one for the Rox. Notables for the Rockies:
- Todd Helton went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
- Carlos Gonzalez drove in an insurance run with an eighth inning sacrifice fly that scored Ryan Spilborghs, who doubled in his only at bat.
- Yorvit Torrealba extended his hitting streak to 16 games with a base hit in the bottom of the second.
The Rox currently lead the Giants by 2.5 games, and the Giants trail the Padres 4-3 late in their game. I'm sure you can check the comments of this thread, or tonight's game thread, to discuss the SF-SD contest by 3 full games in the NL Wildcard standings, as San Francisco fell 4-3 to the Padres.
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Tomorrow: STOP. Hammel time. Bronson Arroyo (12-12) vs. Jason Hammel (8-7)...same time, same place. GO ROCKIES!!!!!!
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Thanks for nothing D-Backs.
Alanna Rizzo is my dream girl.
by Cargo's Ball Sack5 on Sep 8, 2009 10:47 PM MDT reply actions
Maybe
if you had come over to root for us, like so many of your compadres, we might have triumphed, eh?
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yeah
it is 16
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 Sep 8, 2009 10:57 PM MDT up reply actions
Fixed.
Just an average guy with exceptional hair. Nothing more, nothing less.
by Bryan Kilpatrick on Sep 8, 2009 11:02 PM MDT up reply actions
yeah, but
we really should have tagged that maloney guy for more runs, he was awful, especially in the 5th. Have to take advantage of that.
Rockiesssssssssssss
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!!
And in the funny pages news
“You have been banned from McCovey Chronicles.
I’m hiding your comments, but not necessarily because of anything you wrote. I just don’t know how to handle the situation, and this is the easiest way to move on."
LAWL!
I love it, I get banned because they like to use profanity, wish injuries on players, and ask me to die in a hot air balloon accident.
No wonder that board, that town, and that team are so pathetique. I’ve never seen thinner skin. Funny, with the weather there, you’d think they’d be made of sterner stuff. Oh well. They can still suck it while watching the playoffs on TV without them.
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I just signed up tonight, so I couldn't comment yet
but I wanted to say AT&T Park, LOLZ. All the HR’s tonight, what a bandbox.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
If I remember correctly
it is a hitters park (I think I read this in a KYF). Keep going Friars
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JFK
It is, but I'm sick of them coming over here every time a HR
is hit in Coors and making fun of the baseball played here.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
They can't help making fun of playoff-bound teams
It helps them sleep at night and keeps a few of them from jumping off the Bay Bridge.
It’s a lot easier to make fun of Coors Field home runs in mid-October…when your season is already over.
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yes it is offensive
About half the offensive influence coors has for runs. The thing is, people tend to give way too much weight to home run effects when heading parks with the eye test. AT&T dwarfs homers like nonodys business, but the outfield is rather kind to all other hits, especially triples
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 9, 2009 7:07 AM MDT via mobile up reply actions
don't be a troll
be better than them
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 11:17 PM MDT up reply actions
Good thing I'm not a mod, then
Because I’d just ban the whole lot of them. ;-)
Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
I didn’t consider it trolling to suggest that taking pleasure out of other player’s injuries is not cricket. They probably wouldn’t have considered it trolling if I had just thrown in a few profanities — I would have fit in better then.
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Dude
Nothing in America is cricket. As if those guys would know their googlies from their chinamen.
by KindredSprites on Sep 8, 2009 11:24 PM MDT up reply actions 4 recs
Kinda like a CarGo Lazor Beam home run
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Hmmm
thinking about it, cricket’s jargon is so much less self explanatory than baseball’s. But I have no actual evidence for this. People must think I’m strange when I start using baseball slang to describe cricketing events.
by KindredSprites on Sep 8, 2009 11:41 PM MDT up reply actions
If the Giants were a cricket team
They’d be like all out for 42 runs, and their bat would last about 15 overs. In a five day match.
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Presumably they wouldn't do much better in the second innings either
I’m pretty glad San Francisco isn’t a test playing nation though. I imagine Matt Cain et al would take too much joy in being allowed to hit batsmen.
by KindredSprites on Sep 8, 2009 11:33 PM MDT up reply actions
Nobody understands cricket,
you gotta know what a crumpet is, to understand cricket.
"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when Ubaldo is throwing fastballs by you."
by The Lodo Magic Man on Sep 9, 2009 10:53 AM MDT up reply actions
I actually played cricket for awhile!
A prior employer had quite a number of Indian employees and they invited me to play cricket. We played with tennis balls, otherwise, someone surely would have died…lol…
I loved it…quite fun actually. But to this day, I cannot score it. I left that up to the real cricket players.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.....
I too played a couple summers of cricket
While I was living in England, and playing for the local rugby club, we had a cricket team during the rugby offseasons. Loads of fun. Oddly enough, I couldn’t bat for crap, but took two wickets the first over I ever bowled.
Basically, we’d just play a 20 overs match on Wednesday evenings, and then go get drunk at our club pub.
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lol...well no drinking for us
The Indians did not imbibe. I was a decent batter, and had some wickets when I bowled. I really enjoyed it. I did find I got a little dizzy running back and forth after a while…if I was lucky that is….lol
It seemed like a good idea at the time.....
I'm surprised that particular group of Indians did not imbibe...
…because India’s Kingfisher is one seriously good lager. Just sayin’.
Cricket is a blast…I was somewhat disenchanted the last time I actually watched it on TV, to find the uniforms basically completely awash in colors and sponsor logos now. Made me sad, because there was something innocent about the old school white unis.
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Um,
They only where white in test matches and first class matches these days. They haven’t worn white in one dayers for a very long time.
But still there are a lot of sponsors even on their test whites, and I’m wondering if they stole this from baseball, but the handedness of the batter decides which arm some advertising goes on.
by KindredSprites on Sep 9, 2009 2:22 PM MDT up reply actions
Can't score it?
Of course I’m heavily biased, and have grown up with cricket so please don’t take the following as a personal slight.
But cricket’s pretty easy to score. If the two batters swap ends without an out occurring it’s a run. That’s pretty much it. Sure you can keep track of the batters and bowlers totals, but that involves writing the number of runs the batter scored or a bowler gave up on a particular bowl. With various symbols to represent non run thingys like 0 runs, wides, wickets, no balls etc.
It’s a lot less complicated than baseball, after all there’s no such thing as an assist, a 4-6-3 double play or a strikeout advance to first on wild throw by the catcher.
Maybe I should do a cricket scoring primer, ala the one we had earlier in the year for baseball. Not that I imagine people would be anywhere near as interested.
by KindredSprites on Sep 9, 2009 2:20 PM MDT up reply actions
We had this
Fanpost earlier this year about cricket by biondino. I don’t know if you saw it or not.
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JFK
Oh nice
I spent a semester abroad in Australia, saw a couple local games of cricket, yet had no idea what was going on.
Reading that post by biondino, it actually starts to make sense!
Gladly sharing a name with Dexter Fowler!
by ShadowPenguin on Sep 9, 2009 3:18 PM MDT up reply actions
Read your comments @MCC
Based on why they banned you, it’s no surprise. It was pretty funny that wit is A) not present or B) not allowed over there.
Repost for someone that didn't catch them?
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nvm, Mondo recapped further down
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I should have captured them.
Between Mondo and SDCat, it was priceless, really. F-bombs thrown from all directions by the MCC’ers, and the Rowbots demonstrating ninja-like skill with words. But in the end, it was like trying to reason with a three year old (and I have two of them)
The funniest part is...
…I’d have never made nearly as many posts, if they hadn’t reacted to my first one, which was not a troll at all, really, with such infantile insults. Never bring a knife to a gunfight, yo.
I’m convinced the average poster at MCC is about 12, and the mods, maybe 15. Either that, or they’re 35 yet still watch every episode of Hannah Montana.
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by Mondogarage on Sep 8, 2009 11:43 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
LMAO
I have a 9 year old daughter who watches Hannah Montana. I really tried to watch it one time, just to understand what the deal was. I left after 5 mins shaking my head in disbelief.
While you shook your head in disbelief...
…the MCCers were DVRing it, so that they can relive the high art that is:
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That skirt is way too short
Does her father know she dresses like that!
by KindredSprites on Sep 9, 2009 12:41 AM MDT up reply actions
I was just hoping to make a point
and I really can’t stand people talking about baseball in CO. That bothers me more than anything, since they are essentially saying we don’t deserve a team, and that baseball is unfair here. I despise that argument and that crap talk. I also wanted to see if a record number of F-bombs could be used.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
good luck with making a point there
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 11:27 PM MDT up reply actions
I know there really isn't a way to make a point at MCC
most of their posters don’t know how to discuss things logically.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
well, civilly anyhow
at least not to us puritans
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 11:29 PM MDT up reply actions
Most of their posters don't even know how to spell, if the word's longer than four letters...
…and doesn’t begin with “F”.
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Sensitive, yet douchey
I mean, as obnoxious as so many of the posters/postings are over there, you’d think they wouldn’t just up and ban. Oh well, I suppose the Bay Area failz at teh internets in the same way they fail at baseball.
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Just peeked back over there.
There aren’t enough antidepressants anywhere to help them. I had to come back here to avoid being overcome by the gloom. It’s almost like they were collectively doomed by the “Demontor’s Kiss”
what did you say
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 11:16 PM MDT up reply actions
In brief...
Recalling how a few of their posters were rather joyous at Tulo’s injury, I went over to point out the schadenfreude and irony of Timmay being day to day with a back injury. Irony is delicious.
And then the insults started. Basic stuff like “Go **** Yourself”, “I hope you die in a balloon accident”, and such.
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And then the insults started. Basic stuff like "Go **** Yourself", "I hope you die in a balloon accident", and such.
Who flies in a Derringer anymore?
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a Derringer? isn't that a gun?
or do you mean dirigible?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.....
That makes more sense.
I get giddy when the Padres win.
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Rick. Rick Derringer
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well, they're copying and pasting your posts
and cackling madly over them
Just let them be, it’s easier that way.
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 11:26 PM MDT up reply actions
They can cackle all fall long, from their sofas
We’ll be toasting Rockies wins long after they turn their attention to how their football team is even one of the few teams worse than Denver’s. And their basketball team.
Is there any sport in Frisco that doesn’t just suck out loud?
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do the sharks count
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 11:37 PM MDT up reply actions
Not exactly Bay Area
If they were in San Fran, they’d probably suck, too. Probably because they put too much rice-a-roni on the training table.
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San Jose
IS Bay Area.
Any county that touchs the bay is considered Bay Area.
The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient.
by rockieprogress on Sep 9, 2009 9:24 AM MDT up reply actions
Aren't the Warriors technically in Oakland?
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by DbacksSkins on Sep 9, 2009 12:06 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
marquis was great
lots of strikeouts too and just a solid team effort, exciting game.
PADRES WIN!
THREE GAME LEAAAADDDD
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by Hollidayrain on Sep 8, 2009 11:13 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here we come!!
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
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JFK
Because
Cargo’s Ball Sack5 refused to root for us.
"In the future, I want to be a fossil. Or, at least have my feces be fossilized"
-Pygalgia
So what did we see tonight?
EY2 can swing a bat.
Marquis 2nd half fall off? Wha? Yeah, right. Solid man, solid.
Morales can close.
Great night all around.
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I hope that Morales
turns out like Wainwright did for the Cards during his rookie year. Closed for the team down the stretch/postseason (although i’d rather have Street heatlhy), led the team to the WS, and then turned into dominant starter/ace.
A guy can dream.
That has been my thought exactly.
You really need 2 domination starters to get deep and be dangerous in the playoffs or an incredible offense. I think Morales and Jimenez could make a tandem as good as any.
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I like this idea
Morales can (and probably should) return to the rotation. He will be good and he is still young. This is just a confidence builder.
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I'd like to see him get a shot at it next year
I find it unlikely that Marquis is resigned this offseason – that leaves an open rotation spot with plenty of candidates. Francis, Morales, Greg 1, Greg 2, Chacin. Should be interesting next spring to say the least.
problem is, Wainwright != Morales
Morales has serious control issues to solve if he wants to move from reliever to starter. Wainwright didn’t have those in the minors.
Morales is still young, so there’s hope. But he’s also had some injury problems. He may yet end up in the pen.
Leave Dexter alone! You're lucky he even performs for you!
I still think we'll have a reasonable shot at resigning Marquis
Unless the Mets do…well…what the Mets do. But either way, I’m pretty sure Morales will get a long look.
That said, I’m increasingly of the opinion that he may be more valuable to us as a late inning guy, possibly taking over closer in 2011, when he pretty much can just get by on two pitches. I’m probably in the minority, and I’d like to see him become a top starter. Just not totally convinced he will be.
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You know, Morales doesn't make me nearly as nervous as Brian Fuentes did on a regular basis.
But I’ll still be soo-hooooo glad when Huston Street comes back.
wow..
Gives Rockies some breathing room.. Every SF and Fla loss, gives Tulo more resting time..
I love the tenacity of Giants team, but their fan base is way too pessimistic (even to me, who is pessimist to the core)…
and gives EY2 more playing time!!
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Whoever predicted
Nick Hundley catching a fly ball in left field to record the 54th out in the Padres Giants game WINS
LOL Hurdle will be calling the Giants/Dodgers game
on MLB network, Friday
I don't think they are calling the game
probably in studio…with the one of the local feeds…
It seemed like a good idea at the time.....
According
to the MLB Network Press Release I received, Hurdle will be calling the game.
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I'd be happy if they split 3-3 over the next 10 days
or Giants went 4-02 over Dodgers, assuming we take care of business against SD and the Giants.
All I want
is at the end of the year, we go to LA tied or up one game. That way, that last weekend would be for the Division..and the biggest weekend in Sept. for the Rockies ever….yes, even bigger then the play-in game 2 years ago (Imho).
We have to be two games back
because if we end the season tied they get the tie-breaker in the head-to-head match-ups for the season.
"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
So what you're saying
Is that being one game up is of no use? We’d have the to win the series regardless?
by KindredSprites on Sep 9, 2009 12:44 AM MDT up reply actions
Nope
you’re absolutely right there. Winning/Sweeping the series would be fun though, especially if the Giants could take the wild-card because of it.
"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
In Losses, which is really the most important measure
We are as close to the Dodgers as the Giants are to us…
As long as we win I want SF to beat LA… If we Sweep SD let SF sweep LA
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