Baseball Is a Funny Game
Sep. 6th, 2025 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperThe Cardinals just got the second-best walk-off win of the night against a team that used to be from New York.
This is because the Orioles (who *used* to be from St. Louis) got the best walk-off win of the night against a team that used to be from New York.
The Cardinals were trailing the Giants 2-0 going to the bottom of the ninth. Their offense all night had been an exercise in futility. They proceeded to load the bases with no one out, got a single to score one run, followed by a double to plate two more, and suddenly they had won the game by a final of 3-2.
Pretty good, no?
But the Orioles had them beat. They were trailing the Dodgers 3-0 going to the bottom of the ninth. Yamamoto was pitching a *no-hitter* against them. There were two outs -- one out away from the no-hitter -- when Jackson Holliday hit a solo shot to make the score 3-1 and end Yamamoto's night. The next pitcher gave up a double, a hit-by-pitch, and a walk to load the bases, followed by another walk to make the score 3-2. It was now time for yet another new pitcher who gave up a two-run single on his third pitch to the next batter. If you are counting, you realize that this makes the score 4-3 for an Orioles win.
Quick Pitch will be interesting tonight.
ETA: Apparently, the Associated Press had the story on Yamamoto's no-hitter ready to go, because here is the headline that just arrived from the Post-Dispatch:
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws third career no-hitter, first in MLB
Oops!
I hear that Dewey defeated Truman too.
This is because the Orioles (who *used* to be from St. Louis) got the best walk-off win of the night against a team that used to be from New York.
The Cardinals were trailing the Giants 2-0 going to the bottom of the ninth. Their offense all night had been an exercise in futility. They proceeded to load the bases with no one out, got a single to score one run, followed by a double to plate two more, and suddenly they had won the game by a final of 3-2.
Pretty good, no?
But the Orioles had them beat. They were trailing the Dodgers 3-0 going to the bottom of the ninth. Yamamoto was pitching a *no-hitter* against them. There were two outs -- one out away from the no-hitter -- when Jackson Holliday hit a solo shot to make the score 3-1 and end Yamamoto's night. The next pitcher gave up a double, a hit-by-pitch, and a walk to load the bases, followed by another walk to make the score 3-2. It was now time for yet another new pitcher who gave up a two-run single on his third pitch to the next batter. If you are counting, you realize that this makes the score 4-3 for an Orioles win.
Quick Pitch will be interesting tonight.
ETA: Apparently, the Associated Press had the story on Yamamoto's no-hitter ready to go, because here is the headline that just arrived from the Post-Dispatch:
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws third career no-hitter, first in MLB
Oops!
I hear that Dewey defeated Truman too.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-07 10:45 pm (UTC)