The lights went out in the fourth inning at Wrigley Field Wednesday night, but the Dodgers had brought the curtain down much earlier that evening, scoring five runs in the first two innings to give Chad Billingsley (5.1 IP, 10 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 Ks) some breathing room in which to operate. Casey Blake went 2-for-5 with 2 RBI and a solo HR, and James Loney was a HR short of the cycle, having gone 3-for-5 with an RBI. Jonathan Broxton earned a five-out save, entering with one out and a runner on first and getting Ryan Theriot to hit into an inning-ending double play, and then had a 1-2-3 ninth to seal the win.
Padres and Giants are each still in play in their respective games this evening, but second place was secure for us irrespective. Let's see if we can pick a game up pending these outcomes.
photo: AP/ Nam Y Huh
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That was much better. Scary but better.
Cards and Padres still scoreless in the middle of the sixth. What the hell happened to the Cardinals? I thought they were vying for first place, but apparently they don't care (the Cards werre shut out 1-0 yesterday to SD).
Nats up on SF 6-1 in the sixth.
The Cards play in the NL Central. They can tread water all year and then turn it on once every other team in their division trades away half their roster at the deadline.
Point and laughs at Giants.
Damn Petco.
Lincecum just fell apart today, again. I think he might be having issues with his back again.
The defense has been ATROCIOUS the last couple of games, and piss-poor most of the season.
We send Ely tomorrow to go for the kill.
@Mr LASF Ely and kill instincts are synonyms.
I hate the Cardinals.
pads take lead, 1-0 again.
wtf
are we the only team that can score runs off the padres?
Been really busy and missed 2 GT's in a row. It saddens me, but a win at Wrigley warms my heart.
Now to rest.
Oh, and fuck the Giants. The Pod Rays don't bother me so much. As long as they're in our division, they still have to go through us.
TACO BLOWS A SAVE!!
THANK YOU, RYAN LUDWICK
tie game.
Zimmerman almost went yard.
Just can't quit this thread just yet.
See, the Pods are just renting the space. Time for an eviction.
Martina Stavinoha strikes out to kill the rally.
Damn her.
edit: I meant "killer instincts"
Bottom 9 in SD, tied at 1
leadoff walk to venable, then Vincent d'Onofrio bunt pop fouls out but Venable still takes second. That's as good as a sac, with one out. StL doesn't look hungry.
Watching game on Tivo...I took a screenshot of the broadcast when the lights went out and before they cut away. Any need for such?
STL is saving their good stuff till they play us.
uh oh MSB up.
Gnats lost. All is well.
Motte with the tiny k.
free baseball.
At least MSB Ks with a RISP to end the ninth
Is it just me or has Matt Holliday not lived up to the hype at all this season? And yet nobody's talking about it like they were last year.
10th inning
pujols ground out
nutshot ground out
I thought these guys were supposed to be potent
both on one pitch each too.
10th inning continued
Freese in the five-hole Ks for the third time tonight, going 1-for-5
on to the bottom of the tenth, 1-1
@MLASF
Once you're no longer a July trade rumor, you're hotness fades.
All over in SF, Giants lose 7-3 and Lincecum takes his first loss of the year with a 4.2 IP, 6 ER performance
oswalt got the win for Houston over Milwaukee; he's 3-6
Nutshot is collapsing under the pressure of his own huge contract.
Zito'd
MLASF: Are you saying he's been neutered?
Go Nats!
Heading to 11th...
Top 11
rasmus single, then he steals second with none out. Can STL score him?
I think the crowd is chanting let's go dodgers.
I had to drive home right about the time the power outage occurred (at Wrigley, not the Phiwwies offence), and then ended up starting from the beginning on Tivo so I could take in the whole game. So missed the rest of the GT. However, reading back over, I note what has to be the line of the night re the outage. It comes to us from Karina:
"It's Chicago, not Venezuela..."
Well played, Karina!
Basehit and.....still tied.
Cards have men at the corners, no out
Everytime I watch a Padres game at Petco I hear the other team's fans.
Wow ugly.
its nice to know we are the only ones that do that BS
It is time for Yawner Baseball!!!!
I am surprised they haven't started a beat LA chant.
"It is time for Yawner Baseball!!!!"
I read that in the voice of the little kid who says it before the beginning of home Dodgers games, not in Vin's voice, for some reason.
How 'bout those Celtics?
Dusty
I had Ross Porter saying it in my head.
Broom chin is going to blow it here.
Cue up the final countdown this is intense, it is a question of who wants it least.
Broom Mode?
@Dusty Baker I wasn't trying to be witty and/or funny, it was my trauma and frustration talking spontaneously.
Thanks anyway!
On to the 12th
Gameday stopped working again. What's up with Blogger and Gameday not working tonight for me?
It was geopolitically funny, Karina!
He sweeps up the Padders.
Hey the red birds were talking about Ross Porter!!
Hmmmmm Porter.
Cards fail to score, unbelievably, with runners at the corners and none out
Padres get a leadoff HBP and sac him around to third but strand him.
More baseball!
Last of the Mujicas.
That would have been out in a mini park.
The cards have had some of the weakest at bats I have ever seen in these extra innings.
"Cards fail to score, unbelievably, with runners at the corners and none out"
Sons of Vince Coleman fellas are probably jumping off tall buildings.
Pujols is 0-for-4 with two walks, and Nutshot is 0-for-5. What. The. Hell.
I feel like I'm on a Rick Dempsey cruise and those guys might have the potential to possibly get a hit, perhapsmaybe.
Maybe impatient is a better word.
This the kind of game I would love to be at if they promised to reopen the alcohol sales in the 14th.
I am probably the last to know this, but there is a http://sonsofsamhorn.net/
Lucky 13 coming up!
Dusty
i think the sons of Vince Coleman are lighting firecrackers right now.
13th inning. Matt Holliday leads off by grounding out, making him 0-for-6.
I'd tell him to sack up, but he clearly has.
two more strikeouts ends the Cardinals' effort in the top of the 13th. On to the bottom of the 13th, 1-1.
I say homerun derby for the win.
Cards offence is jsut sputtering. They need to think about hiring former slugger Mark McGwire to show them how it's done.
if i'm not mistaken, the cardinals' radio crew just talked right through the half-inning break. wow.
"hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over, hey now, hey now, when the world comes in, they come, they come, to build a wall between us, we know they don't win"
I'm invoking the power of 80's songs so the Crads win this game.
Ballgame. Jerry Hairston Jr HR with two out in the 13th. SD wins, 2-1.
St Louis, you suck.
Bad mojo, it's my fault, not Hairston's or Boggs'
I'm sorry.
@Steve Sax no, I suck. Shouldn't have trusted in the terrible and chaotic power of an eighties classic.
I like Karina's typo referring to Cards as "Crads." We should use this in the future. The Crads. Heh. Makes it sound like crabs, or craps.
Karina.
I just found that song in my archives back in the 90s I had 80s nostalgia. Now I have nostalgia of what was listening to in the 90s.
I am getting old.
Stupid Padres.
karina, no worries! There's freedom within. There's freedom without.
The 80's aren't working too well for us around these parts lately. But I've got other ideas in store...stay tuned.
I'm still not convinced the Pods are for real, so I'll grudgingly accept their win. Giants lose, Dodgers win, (almost) all is right with the world.
@Paul you are not getting old, you're getting wiser and more interesting, ok?
@Steve Sax in the Sons I trust :)
Love the headline:
"Lincecum roughed up by Nats for first loss"
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