Major League Baseball: 2012 Season

[CodeRedR51]

My highlight from yesterday: Giants walk Parra and load the bases to get to the pitcher who promptly sends the ball into the right field corner for a bases clearing triple.

Unfortunately San Diego won too so they are only 1.5 games back.

 

[tfed]

Yankees win,NY Giants win,Bills win. Jets lose. God im loving sundays again

 

[JohnBM01]

No Astros action today or tonight. We're enjoying the 4-game series win over the Phillies. I think our next series is three at St. Louis. Yay.


Good luck to your team(s).

 

[BobK]

So Cliff Lee out-dueled R. A. Dickey last night. Considering the seasons both pitchers are having this year, who'da thunk it?

We're enjoying the 4-game series win over the Phillies.

*Sticks tongue out* Phbbttttt!

 

[Prosthetic]

First half of the season we were the worst in baseball in both errors and BARISP. Second half we are the best in both... Lol.

Crawford made a hell of a play last night... and Posey and Sanchez... Oh man, best catching duo in baseball.

 

[JohnBM01]

The Houston Astros Baseball Club... has picked up its 100th loss at long last. We failed 4-1 at St. Louis to reach the century mark in losses. Lohse won for STL along with a Motte save. Francisco Abad (HOU) was the losing pitcher. So we're stuck on 48 wins. Facebook fans of the Astros "congratulated" the Astros on their 100th loss. Sucks to be an Astros fan this decade. Worst MLB record back-to-back seasons. Good news is that we're leaving the National League so the Cubs can gladly be the NL Central bottom feeders year after year. Only problem is that the Astros will probably be the worst AL team, contending with AL teams that usually have the worst record among AL teams. Sigh...


I bet your team(s) did MUCH better today/tonight, right?

 

[Barra333]

And to cheer you up a bit more John:

If the Astros lose tonight, they'd be the 1st team with 100 losses before their 150th game since the 2004 Diamondbacks.

 

[Blitz24]

And this tidbit from this morning to make John feel better:

The Astros lost their 100th game. They have 14 to go so they can't catch the 119-loss 2003 Tigers. Better luck next year, guys!

 

[Patrick]

We beat up on Texas last night.

 

[JohnBM01]

Thanks for making our fail-tastic season look even worse. *rolls eyes*

 

[Blitz24]

Thanks for making our fail-tastic season look even worse. *rolls eyes*

Look at my team if you want to be a joke. You have a lot to live down to in order to reach the depths of my team.

 

[Prosthetic]

I'm pretty sure that was some of the worse officiating I've ever seen. Screwed Timmy out of finishing the 7th inning last night.

There was a runner interference call on Xavier Nady who ran around the 2nd basemen but stayed in the base path but the 2nd baseman reached out and elbowed him and Nady was out! Right in front of the umpire... Terrible.

There isn't even any video of the umpire blunder... nothing. No talk of it. MLB needs to grow a pair. Because it was absolutely ****ing terrible.

 

[Patrick]

You get the classic "nobody is perfect and I made a mistake" crap.

 

[JohnBM01]

Did you know the BAL at SEA game finished up some time before 4 AM Eastern Time in an 18-inning affair? I still remember the 2005 World Series game here in Houston that started at 7 PM Central until at or past 2:00 AM Central. We, of course, got swept by the Chicago White Sox in the 2005 World Series. Still- baseball is a real grind-it-out game no matter how long a game takes.

I read online that the shortest full game in MLB history lasted only 51 minutes. It was a National League game where New York beat Philadelphia 6-1 back on September 28, 1919. The shortest nine-inning AMERICAN League game was a 55-minute game where St. Louis beat New York 6-2 on September 26, 1926.


MLB Network is showing LAD at WAS. I heard that the Dodgers will be taking on their best friends in their first series of 2013- the San Francisco Giants. By the way... it's 3-1 in favor of Washington right now. Top of the 8th.

 

[Patrick]

I can't imagine a MLB game lasting 55 minutes!

For some reason we open next year against the Reds.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Our schedule next year is whack. At some point Texas comes here to play two games, then we have a day off and play two games in Texas.

 

[Barra333]

Thanks for making our fail-tastic season look even worse. *rolls eyes*

You're welcome . Although the Blue Jays don't have much more to brag about.

I can't imagine a MLB game lasting 55 minutes!

For some reason we open next year against the Reds.

Aaah! The traditional LA/Cincinnati interleague rivalry

 

[JohnBM01]

Astros lost. Again. 5-0 at the St. Louis Cardinals. Now as many losses as the number of Dalmatians, and the Astros have done a GREAT job of playing dead.

We're not the ONLY losers, however. By virtue of getting owned 13-3 at Tampa Bay today, the Boston Red Sox have clinched a losing record. Boston is now 68-82(?) on the season after taking this root canal beating.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Win 6-2.

 

[Patrick]

And we lost... Right when others lost. Gah.

 

[CodeRedR51]

And just like that we give up a 3-run homer in the first inning.

 

[Blitz24]

The Cincinnati Reds, by virtue of defeating the Chicago Cubs today 5-3, have become the first MLB team in 2012 to clinch a postseason berth.

 

[CodeRedR51]

We're currently losing 6-5 with San Diego, but we have the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th with nobody out. We better at least tie it....

Edit: OMG I HATE when managers change pitchers for every batter. So annoying.

 

[Blitz24]

And now its 5 pitchers!

EDIT: And they failed.

 

[CodeRedR51]

We lost.

🤬

Bases loaded and NOBODY out and we FAIL.

 

[JohnBM01]

So did my Astros. It was 5-0 we lost last night, and 5-4 today. Loss #102. Too bad my Astros can't go back in time and replace the 2012 team with the 1998 Houston Astros. If that were possible, we'd have 100+ WINS rather than 100+ losses.

MLB Network's "On-Deck Circle" shown bits and pieces of the SD at ARI game. I, of course, was pulling for the Snakes to win out of respect for R1600Turbo. Sadly, they failed to the Padres 6-5. Sorry, man. That's baseball.


A note I forgot to make from my last post... the Boston Red Sox have their first losing record season since 1997. The 1997 Red Sox finished 78-84.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Sorry, man. That's baseball.

It's our season in a nutshell, sadly. I can't complain too much since we're doing better than a lot of other teams that should be better than us anyway. This year is just an "average" year and we'll finish up that way with a .500 record. (+/- a couple games)

 

[Villain]

It looks like Kershaw won't need any surgery. Thank you, Gods of Baseball.

 

[Patrick]

There goes our playoff chances. ****in Frieri.

 

[JohnBM01]

Beautiful Citi Field... ugly loss for the Mets. Mets got lit up like a Christmas tree- only managing 1 run and 3 hits. Meanwhile, the Phillies put up 16 runs and 21 hits. Ouch. So a lot of our favorite teams lost Thursday- my Astros failed, D-Backs lost, Dodgers lost, Mets get eviscerated, the Angels lost... I always say good luck to your team(s). Some days, you just get UNlucky.


Best of luck to your teams for the weekend series. And I believe this is the penultimate weekend of regular season games.