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.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
From FanGraphs:http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ALWCracebytime.png
― francisF, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
wow
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
did Crawford end the season with an obp over .300?
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
nein
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
lolwow
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
dianagram (NYC): Matt Moore .... best pitching prospect to hit the majors since __________. (Prior? Wood? Verlander? other?)
Jason Parks: Kershaw
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/hash/94/dc/94dcb347e4290011e732ed531a4fb48a.jpg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
rewatched the 2011 yankees-rays game 162 yesterday, so satisfying
― na (NA), Monday, 6 July 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link