Yardwork: At Least Daniel Murphy Didn’t Do It
Baseball May 12th. 2009, 11:45am
Braves 8, Mets 3: Only the Mets could find a way to snap a seven-game winning streak with Johan Santana on the mound. He left in the seventh inning with one out and the score tied 1-1. What followed was a single, a rather massive two-out error by Jose Reyes, and two more singles, leading to a four-run inning. This is the second time this season Santana has lost when he did not allow an earned run. On the bright side, he sounds jazzed to be part of the unusual stat: “It’s crazy that it has happened twice this year, I’ve never experienced that before.”
Indians 9, White Sox 4: Carl Pavano wasn’t close to being great (6.1 IP, 10 H, 4 ER) but he didn’t have to be thanks to Gavin Floyd, who was miserable, going five innings and giving up eight runs. In his last two starts, Floyd has been the toast of the town, allowing a total of 14 runs. Shin-Soo Choo and Jhonny Peralta each had 3 RBI, but as they’ve been known to say in Cleveland, they’re still shitty.
Reds 13, D-Backs 5: In another battle of who can suck the least, starters Bronson Arroyo and Jon Garland combined for five homers and 12 earned runs, with Garland getting the worst of it. Not be outdone was Arizona reliever Bobby Koreck, who dazzled scouts with two innings of six-run ball. Willy Taveras, Jerry Hairston Jr., Brandon Phillips and Votto all had 2 RBI apiece. It seems like every game Votto has two hits — he’s batting 381.
Giants 11, Nats 7: Randy Johnson gave up three home runs but still got his 298th win, leaving him just two wins shy of official legendary status. Here’s to hoping that once it happens, the stork-like pitcher’s celebration speech will be equally arrogant to that of Rickey Henderson’s, followed by him flying off the mound with the game ball never to be heard from again.
And for no reason whatsoever, Barney Gumble punching out Wade Boggs at Moe’s:
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May 12th, 2009 at 11:53 am
i wish this were true…fuck the braves.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Pat Burrell sucks
May 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I love that episode. ‘I hear there are a lot of unsolved murders in New York. But you wouldn’t know anything about that would ya Saxxy boy?’
May 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am
maybe santana should try to give up -1 run.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Holy… WTF. Thanks, it’s fixed.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Hernia: That’s a great picture of Santana holding up his special bottle of “Boli”
May 12th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
If only cool stuff like this had been around when I was still an avs fan.
I was going to put it in the hockey one-liner but what the hell, I feel like hijacking every post with hockey talk.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
fetch, you used to be an Avs fan?
May 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
homer at the bat is by far the best simpsons episode ever.
in other words: even the fucking twins could score more runs when i pitched than this team!
May 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Yeah Triston. Well I was a Jets fan way back when, and then when the Nordiques moved to Colorado I thought the Avs were an expansion team so i decided to become a fan. But a series of horrible moves and the lockout drove me away.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Smithers: I’m afraid most of your players have retired, and um, passed on. In fact, your right fielder has been dead for 130 years.
Burns: Well get me new players. Living players. I want you to scour all the professional leagues: the American League, the National League, the Negro League.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
fetch: Bet there will be a LOT of THIS going on in Chicago
May 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
@irish- his numbers seem a bit better at the plate than uptons
May 12th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Triston,
You see for a while there the Upper Midwest region was without a team to root for(North Stars went to Dallas). Some of us threw our support north of the border (I went Canucks) and others went west.
/Science
May 12th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Understandable. I can remember skipping school to go to the parade after winning the first cup. Friend of mine built a replica Stanley Cup out of tupperware and tin foil and we drove downtown holding it on top of the car. Great day.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Does Upton make $7 mill a year?
May 12th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Santana allowed 2 earned runs and got the loss. No pitcher can ever lose a game without allowing a run. It is impossible.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Correction – both of the Santana runs were unearned.
So, TBL – the quote should read “when he did not allow an earned run”.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Then Charlie Brown made Linus do the turtle.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
woah fetch is cosmo? I’m at the nexus of the universe!
May 12th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
+1, sponge.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Yes, unearned runs. Mets hate to see him win.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Mets hate to see him win, but I love him ever since he left the AL Central. Wish he would take Greinke, Buehrle and a few others with him.
Cliff Lee can stay, though. He sucks.