Maybe, if the Braves aren’t winning as regularly at home, a road trip is what they needed. Let’s hope so.
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Maybe, if the Braves aren’t winning as regularly at home, a road trip is what they needed. Let’s hope so.
Use code “Journal” for a 5% discount.
We need a rain out. Call Crash Davis
Say hello to Jenny, who is now gainfully employed as a Carleton College Music Circulation Desk Attendant at $9.28 per hour! Now if they’d only let me work more than 8 hours a week, I’d be set. Guess playing the violin has finally paid dividends. Literally.
No rain tonight, Smitty. Chance is 10%. Let’s hope Zambrano is off his game.
Older lineup tonight…
Furcal
Giles
CJones
AJones
LaRoche
Francoeur
Johnson
Estrada (Pena back to Richmond…interesting spot for Estrada in the lineup)
Hudson
We miss Nomar tonight in the Cubs lineup.
Well, Hudson can’t get a bunt down anyway. So the usual risk of the bunt DP isn’t there. That and, well, it’s at least somewhat likely that Estrada can’t hit well enough for it to matter.
No Joe Morgan.
Thank Goddddd
I’m not upset about Estrada getting a start. McCann was looking pretty ragged by the end of the home stand. But so was pretty much everyone.
Isn’t it on TBS, too? My cable is out.
For me, it’s only on TBS. ESPN has ESPNNEWS.
Oh, cable’s back. I’ve got it on both channels. TBS it is.
timmy just mowed the cubbies 1-2-3 they go. He looks sharp..
aghhh…nice snag on the bobble
The tank just whipped on 3 high FB…
ooh man zambrano looks even sharper.blew jeff away there.
This worked yesterday… We’re doomed. Zambrano is going to throw a perfect game.
Hopefully, you just jinxed him.
Anyways, espn is like 3 seconds behind tbs.
Timmy has his sinker on tonite…
Beautiful, Timmy, beautiful.
Lordy..Timmy is dealin tonite…lets get on Zambrano’s skin and rattle him…
You know, in Chicago this is on Fox and you could theoretically switch between TBS, live, ESPN on three second delay, and Fox on five second delay.
Am I the only person who has ESPNNEWS on ESPN right now instead of the game?
I’m 200 miles away from Atlanta, so it can’t be a broadcast blackout thing.
I am in PA and I have the game…
I have the game on TBS. But they have a “blackout” (ESPNNEWS feed) on ESPN. I just thought it was strange.
I live in Atlanta, and yeah its ESPNNEWS. But, you probably knew that?
I don’t like facing Zambrano.
Where are you at JoeyT?
I know it’s early, but Hudson looks amazing. Problem is, I don’t know how we’re gonna score. This one is looking like that Huddy/Clemens matchup earlier this year in Houston. (That one kinda worked out in the end.)
“Just because Cindy’s mom was a dirty tramp, doesnt mean everyone has to DIE”
What kind of preview is that?
WTF…
Where’s Alex R.? Mr. “WE ARE NOT GETTING OUR MONEY’S WORTH WITH HUDSON”.
He says he’s tired. What did he do in Vegas?
Bet on Hampton, he said.
Ouch.
patterson’s fighting it. i think he needs a change of scenery.
This game is just speeding along…
I’ve never seen Hudson like this, and Zambrano is dealing too.
Crazy.
Bye-bye no-hitter and perfect game for Zambrano.
Patterson needs a change of leagues.
Like, back to AAA.
Seeing how Furcal bunted on the first pitch his last time up, I don’t know how much he could have learned, Chippy.
patterson: the downside of no plate discipine. i hope we never see his type of performance in Frenchie.
CHIPP-AH!
Final score: 2-0.
Yikes.
Me gusta Chipper.
Andruw had to get on to set up the double play for LaRoche.
DP coming up.
not if druw gets picked off….that was close.
Why are the Cubs anouncers on TBS?
Oh, never mind.
Can we trade Chip back to the Cubs for Bob Brenly?
I’m sick of that. Lawton turned into that ball. He is not entitled to first base. It’s a ball.
chip aint that bad.at least not as bad as sutton
I’ll take it.
I could usually care less who calls the games, but I like Sutton, especially when Maddux & Glavine were on the team. Lotsa pitching insight.
Did they give Barrett a hit on that? Sheesh. Actually, it would have been a hit anywhere else, but in Wrigley you have to make that play.
Well, the word “sucks” is now totally mainstream. Which kind of sucks.
WHYYYY is Wright pitching good. Thats not allowed to happen.
I find it amusing that “sucks” and “blows” have the same meaning, even though they’re complete opposites.
And I really couldn’t care less about the frequent usage of either word. Chalk it up to the continuing moral decline of my generation, but it just has no impact on me.
Latnam, Hudson’s was this dominant (actually, a little more) against Clemens in Houston. I know you posted a while ago, but I just got on.
0 Fly balls.
That’s how you win a Wrigley.
I fully expect the Democratic Presidential nominee in 2008 to say that the economy sucks during a nationally televised debate.
Remember when we cut Gary Matthews Jr….I always liked him 🙁
I put Lowry on my fantasy team today.
THAT is how sure I am he dominates the Phils.
Huddy is electric tonite…
Stu, well I saw that game too, I just wasn’t thinking of it earlier. He’s certainly not gonna match it now. Of course even in that game he had 6 flyouts, still none tonight. But yeah he was better in that game against Clemens. Seems so long ago.
So, yeah Zambrano’s at 105 pitches or so, I’ll be happy to see him out of there.
The kid is looking at a hat trick..I hope he hits a dinger like his first game against these same cubbies…
Our top 6 hitter got just 22 pitches out of him the last two innings, or perhaps he would already be gone, a little patience later in the game might help but oh well.
Huddy just gave a bomb to Lee
Agh.
that just means andruw is due for one
Neifi!
How is he hitting .272? He’s a AAA hitter.
NICE THROW!
When Nomar went down he was like the hottest hitter in baseball. He was up near .400 and hung around .320 for a while.
Nice toss KJ
KJ! Nice pick by Johnny E, too
Bomb? More like a firecracker. That’s not a homer in Coors Field. Heck, that’s not a homer in Wrigley except for that stupid basket.
KJ is the man…now hit a home run to win the game…
Late to the party, as usual. The fishing has been too good to miss with the full moon a few days ago and all.
Boy, how glad was Estrada that it wasn’t a close play at the plate.
urlhix,
Give Johnny credit. If he were “gunshy,” he might’ve have heard those footsteps & flubbed the throw. Nice play.
He did play the throw nicely, but you could tell he was a little shy about stepping in front of Barrett.
He gets credit but I could see the wheels turning in his mind from here at my living room.
That would be “in my living room”
The man made the play on a long hop with a runner coming down the line. Not as easy as it looks. Try it once.
Neifi Perez:
Home: .308/.332/.443
Away: .243/.270/.353
Those are crazy splits. Coors-like splits. No wonder I thought Neifi wasn’t very good.
We aren’t saying it wasn’t hard. We are saying we could tell he was thinking about it. He still played the ball well…as he should, since it IS his job.
Speaking of crazy home\away splits:
Adam LaRoche
Home: .322/.356/.556
Away: .200/.269/.356
I’m not saying it wasn’t a skilled play and never would. All I’m saying is that even before the throw it had shades of shaping up like the the Erstad play that got him hurt in the first place and I’ll bet my catch tonight that Johnny recognized the same thing.
Now let’s light up some Wood here and start a fire.
Hey, look who’se coming up for the Cubbies in the bottom of the 9th…hometown hero.
That’s it…my first child just got named Chipper.
YEAAAAAA Chippah
CHIPP-AH!!
CHIPPER!
Live by the tiny ballpark, die by the tiny ballpark.
CHIPPER! AGAIN!
Somebody wants the limelight back! :>)
Now let’s throw another log on that fire.
Farnsworth to close?
Ah, never mind, Hudson to come back out.
is hudson coming out to finish?
urlhix,
I just think Johnny was dealing with the hop, not so much thinking about contact.
But right now, who cares? Chipp-ah!
What advice do you think Chipper would give to Francoeur, if and when he asks?
Ice – Hudson’s coming back out, they mentioned it on TBS.
I think Chipper would say, “Smurph, when reporters talk to you, speak in nothing but cliches. It’s worked for me, taking it one day at a time.”
“And kid, whatever you do, stay away from Hooters.”
And try to bat lefty, too. It’s a rare commodity in this day and age.
what I really like about Chip is that even when he is in a slump, he concentrates on the walks, etc. and eventually things work out.
Oooh, I think that was a DP.
Absolutely awful by Giles. He had all the time in the world. LaRoche didn’t help, but that’s on Giles.
If LaRoche hadn’t tried to “steal” that, he might have been able to get back and tag the runner or the base.
ububba,
You can think that. I don’t. Any catcher thinks about the contact. Especially if you are coming of an injury related to that very thing. But I think we can agree to disagree since we are now winning. Besides, it’s not like I bet my house or car on it *grin*.
LaRoche did the right thing. He couldn’t think he had time to turn it if he left the base, so he tried to stretch and keep his foot on the bag. It was a good effort.
Nice win.
Good win. Hudson kicked ass.
Sweet. Two in a row. Good game tonight.
BRAVES WINNNNNNNNNNN.
Good win. Nice one Timmah!
Any way you slice it, that was a helluva win.
Our bullpen has gotten a lift from Smoltz and Hudson. That’s what they’re paid for, I suppose. Good win.
both starters sure left it all on the field–118 pitches a piece.
As I said all along, we need a healthy Chipper Jones to have any chance in the playoff.
Great game by Tim Hudson!!!