Running MLB Thread 2007 #1

Good to see Mussina starting off well.

 

This Indians-Mariners game on MLB.tv is fascinating. Cleveland up 4-0 with two outs and two strikes in the top of the fifth, and Hargrove comes out to complain that there's too much snow to continue. Long argument, and the umps finally decide to send the teams in. So if this game gets called off, the Indians will be robbed of a win because they couldn't get one more strike.

 

And Paul Byrd is throwing a no-hitter.

 

Verlander's pitchin' against the Royals tonight. He owned the Royals last year but I'm hopin' there's no sophmore slump this year.

 

Leyland has Pudge leading off tonight.

Granderson is all the way down at the No. 8 spot.

 

Brewers wearing the retro home unis..... why did they ever drop those duds?

 

6-0 Cubs in the top of the first with one out.

Taste it, Bubbler.

 

If Hargrove hadn't come out and bitched about it, Byrd might have been one strike away from a perfect game. He needed only one out to get out of the fifth with a 4-0 lead. With all the snow, that might have called it from there. Now it will probably be a lengthy delay (and Byrd might not return) or it's all erased if they they can't play again.

Meanwhile, the Cubs are taking BP against Dave Bush.

 

Actually, Byrd had walked the bases loaded. So there wasn't a perfect game, but still a no-hitter. I don't think they technically count anything but nine-inning (or more) no-hitters as official.

 

Ryan Howard blows a pickoff with a lob throw to second base.

The sort of commonplace stuff not in the box score that was utterly ignored in picking him as MVP last season.

 

Still, a no-hitter in snow would have been memorable.

 

I just got home from the Indians game. Wanted to stay, but was outvoted by my group, 4-1. Indians were PISSED when they got waved off the field with one strike to go. Mariners got off the field right away, Tribe wouldn't leave. They finally relented after a few minutes, but Casey Blake didn't want to come off the field, staying there even after the rest of the team left.

Oh wow, after 1 1/2 hrs., they just called it. Mariners celebrating in their dugout like they won the damn game.