Yardwork: Stealing Home, Not Starring Mark Harmon
Baseball May 13th. 2009, 12:00pm
Phillies 5, Dodgers 3: Inspired by Edge’s entrance music which just happened to be blaring throughout Citizens Bank Park, Jayson Werth broke from third with the bases juiced and stole home, making Russell Martin look awfully stupid in the process. (Video after the jump.) Even more improbable, Chan Ho Park pitched another great game. He’s only given up two runs in his last 12 innings. L.A. is now 1-4 without Manny and you have no choice but to enjoy being forcefed that stat like Fat Homer until they start winning again.
Blue Jays 5, Yankees 1: As expected, Roy Halladay pitched a complete game, allowing one run that came on a two-out RBI single from A-Rod. He barely broke 100 pitches. Just get it over with and give him the Cy Young already. I say this now, in May, in hopes that Halladay will lose his next 23 starts and leave the game of baseball altogether.
Reds 3, D-Backs 1: Micah Owings used the weak Arizona bats to help him bounce back from two bad starts, going seven innings and giving up one run on four hits. Brandon Phillips had 2 RBI including an absolute bomb off Dan Haren that everyone gazed at in admiration, including Phillips and catcher Miguel Montero. Justin Upton didn’t have an RBI but he still has six times as many as his bro.
Pirates 7, Cardinals 1: The Bucs snapped an eight-game losing streak thanks to a huge lift from Cards starter Todd Wellemeyer, who was a train wreck.
Rangers 7, Mariners 1: Josh Hamilton homered in his return.
Mets 4, Braves 3: The Mets got two in the eighth, one in the ninth and one in the 10th on a bases loaded, walk-off walk. But Chipper Jones says here that the baseball gods owe them one because he’s “never had a guy slide into his glove and be safe.”
Ryan Zimmerman’s hitting streak has reached 30 games. That’s a nice little streak he has going there, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves and act as if he just boinked Marisa Miller while skiing the K12, he’s barely over halfway there.
And Bobby Jenks was fined $750 for admitting he threw behind Ian Kinsler. A rather purposeful fine considering this is roughly the equivalent of taking a squeaky toy away from your dog for three seconds.
Below is the aforementioned steal by Werth, but you’re probably better off re-creating the play on an Etch-a-Sketch rather than watching this 126-year old footage:
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May 13th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
but you’re probably better off re-creating the play on an Etch-a-Sketch rather than watching this 126-year old footage
fantastic.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Greinke vs. Halladay is going to be a fun comparison all year long. Halladay just eats so many innings.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
“another useless RBI by Arod!”
Who is going to say this first?
May 13th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Balt 7
TB 5
BJ Upton continues to kill TSH fantasy team. Pat Burrell sat out because he had sand in his pussy. Longoria had another RBI
May 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
$750 fine?
That’ll stop those rebel millionaires!
May 13th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
the 1963 Zapruder film looked better than that
May 13th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
+1 irish, that’s just fabulous
May 13th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Go to ESPN.com front page, dont look at the name. Guess if thats a dude or not.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Dan Haren is headed for a season like Brandon Webb had in 06′. Only minus the Cy Young because there is better pitching in the NL now. Justin Upton is the man and really the only reason to watch the Diamondbacks. Kid is the real deal.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Jesus Christ thats an awful picture. It’s like the illegitamate offspring of Richard simmons and Little Richard.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Fucking Reds are starting to hit. If this team hits, watch out. Pitching is scary good!
May 13th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Hope on the Little Red Machine…
May 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pm