Manny and the Caveman: Your 2011 Tampa Bay Rays

Hope the Rays can do it here--I'm going to have to bail otherwise.

lol at proctor

Oh boy!

scott proctor at 44 pitches

ugh

damnit

lol

uh oh

Now where can I get a TV feed of this in NY?

all u need 2 do is solve the riddle that is scott proctor

all right if the rays can't beat scott proctor after 50 pitches then fuck em

WALKOFF LOL OMG

Spectacular. Speechless.

best march madness ever

HOLY SHIT

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

this has to be one of the best nights to ever see live on TV (thanks MLB Network). sure i was more happy when the Giants won everything last year but my head is blown tonight.

If you mean any shitty baseball movie, yeah

xxp

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mlb network guy "there will be a movie made of wildcard wednesday"

Mosaic madness!

rematch of alds rays v rangs

A+++ night, thanks you guys for staying up and hanging out.

I can't think of anything I've ever seen like the last 20 minutes. Just sorry I never caught any of the Braves game.

out last year of nail biting wild card fites!

thank you Bud Selig for not having 2 wild cards

btw seriously lolling at all the Rays fans who left in the 8th, you guys missed the most epic comeback of all time

"all the Rays fans"

http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2011-09-28&team=Rays&dh=0&season=2011

congratulation, Manuel "Manny" Arístides Ramírez Onelcida

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Manny+Ramirez+Tampa+Bay+Rays+Photo+Day+iZXVQJ4mEdAl.jpg

he looks high

Dan Johnson just saved the Tampa Bay Rays season. This Dan Johnson.

Before tonight, he had a -7 wRC+. As noted in that leaderboard, the only Major Leaguer with a worse offensive season in at least 90 PA was Roy Halladay,

I showed my class all the Tampa Bay/Boston highlights this morning, trying to create some sense of the timeline (a split-screen would have come in handy). Baseball hardly exists for Canadian kids ever since the Jays stopped winning, but, thanks to my expert narration, they seemed to understand the improbability of all that happened.

sportscenter did a great dual highlight timeline thingy last night

When they turn it into a movie, either De Palma or a resurrected Abel Gance gets the assignment.

I can't even remember for sure which game ended first now, tho I suspect it was Boston's

it was

Price has to be a little rattled from that start/Teix's salami. Hope he can pull it together.

yeah they need him 2 be solid

take cliff lee out of the equation & tb beats tx last yr p handily

i'm sure he'll be fine -- pitchers have bad starts sometimes

I can't even remember for sure which game ended first now, tho I suspect it was Boston's

Yeah, Longoria gave Boston just enough time to walk into the clubhouse and watch their season end

I'll be rooting hard for the Rays for as long as they last. Coming back like they did last night was just tremendous. They caught a break in not having to face Rivera, but it still required some mysterious combination of luck, karma, divine intervention, character (old-fashioned, I know--I have to believe there's some of that in there somewhere), and god only knows what else. It would be so great to see them knock out the Yankees in a divisional final after Girardi's decision not to use Rivera (which I totally understand).

I think the gap between Andino and Longoria was three or four minutes. (I'm not sure, but one may have even been just before midnight and the other just after.)

Verducci has an exact timeline up--not quite right:

12:02: Robert Andino wins the game for Baltimore with a single. The Red Sox, as it turns out, have three minutes to live.

12:05: Longoria hits a home run off Scott Proctor to win the game for Tampa Bay.

From FanGraphs:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ALWCracebytime.png

wow

Seriously, there will almost certainly not be anything like this for a long time

Not just the Boston collapse or the insane way yesterday shook out, but even Carl Crawford's tragic involvement in everything is just ridiculous and too weird to believe

did Crawford end the season with an obp over .300?

nein

lolwow

dianagram (NYC): Matt Moore .... best pitching prospect to hit the majors since __________. (Prior? Wood? Verlander? other?)

Jason Parks: Kershaw

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/hash/94/dc/94dcb347e4290011e732ed531a4fb48a.jpg

rewatched the 2011 yankees-rays game 162 yesterday, so satisfying