What in God's name just happened?

by Taylor H on May 25, 2009 9:44 PM PDT Comment 46 comments

Frankly, this is the craziest game we've had yet this season.

In case you hadn't heard, the Rays were up on the Tribe 10-2 in the eighth inning, at which point the Indians scored 2 runs. Just two harmless runs, right? Their WE had to be less than 1% entering the ninth inning.

Then the Indians scored seven runs. Seven runs.

Walk. Pop-up. Single. Throwing error. Line-out. Three-run homer. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Two-run walk-off single.

It's always Cleveland that pulls the big comeback. This game had shades of that famous 2001 loss in which we twice had 11 run leads but lost in spectacular fashion.

And if you thought our WE plummetted after the Uribe double a few nights ago, it absolutely pales in comparison to this:

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I think you just answered your own question.

by Poochie on May 25, 2009 9:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Also

Isringhauen implodes?

by Poochie on May 25, 2009 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

How did Chris Carpenter do today?

by R.J. Anderson on May 25, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pretty good actually.

by Poochie on May 25, 2009 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Amazing

8 IP, 10 K’s, 0 BB’s. And he only threw 92 pitches.

St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008

by vivaelpujols on May 25, 2009 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The completely irrational angry part of me swears he'd have two no hitters if we had a real secondbaseman

by Poochie on May 26, 2009 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well yeah

St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008

by vivaelpujols on May 26, 2009 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

DIE. DIE. DIE.

by R.J. Anderson on May 25, 2009 10:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Isringhausen bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

by Poochie on May 25, 2009 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

-0.952

Oh Lord.

by ThundaPC on May 25, 2009 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Holy skydiving Jesus, that's epic

by Taylor H on May 26, 2009 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He got squeezed.

But yes, ugh. :(

by R.J. Anderson on May 25, 2009 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He was fired from the team with the worst bullpen in baseball and replaced by Ryan Franklin

so I can see why the Rays would sign him and put him on the ML roster

by Poochie on May 25, 2009 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sort of.

Although, Zobrist’s bat might make up for his defensive ineffectiveness. We shall see.

by R.J. Anderson on May 26, 2009 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh look, and now Bartlett's probably headed to the DL.

Awesome.

by R.J. Anderson on May 26, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We have a shortstop you may be interested in acquiring

by Graham on May 26, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

But I wanna keep Cedeno

by Poochie on May 26, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

F%#^ you

St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008

by vivaelpujols on May 27, 2009 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What's the likelihood he's a Ray in 2010?

by Taylor H on May 26, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sorry :(

by Taylor H on May 26, 2009 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We get it. The Rays blew a large lead.

But for fuck’s sake, this is a Mariners blog.

by Snowman1025 on May 25, 2009 11:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't think Taylor H posted this because it was the Rays.

He probably posted it because this was a historic comeback that most of us might have missed. Seriously, this kind of game won’t be seen again for years. Look at the WE chart…it’s beyond ridiculous. I have never seen anything like this.

Relax dude, not every fanpost is always about the M’s. And for fuck’s sake, no one forced you to read this.

Go Nova

by dbroncos31 on May 26, 2009 12:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whoosh

by OlSalty on May 26, 2009 12:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

(I think)

by OlSalty on May 26, 2009 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gotcha

That Rays joke will never get old

by Snowman1025 on May 26, 2009 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm afraid I have some bad news....

by marc w on May 26, 2009 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I'm a dumbass...

Well played, sir.

Go Nova

by dbroncos31 on May 26, 2009 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I managed to see this, and somehow miss all of the good part.

I was at a sports bar watching the basketball game and saw it was 10-4 going into the bottom of the ninth. Next time I looked at it, it was 10-9 with two outs and the bases loaded. I did manage to see the game winning hit. Ridiculous.

by FlaskInSafeco on May 26, 2009 5:02 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Really an ugly game. 19 walks, 410 total pitches

by Toxicadam on May 26, 2009 6:54 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It boggles my mind

to watch teams capable of drawing multiple walks in a game. I thought the 11 walks in the Dodgers/Rockies game was insane but 19? Wow.

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by bluemax on May 26, 2009 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The downside of being able to draw multiple walks is to suffer through many strikeouts. 12 times the Indians have struck out 10 or more times in a game. The Mariners have only done that 3 times.

Cleveland has struck out 356 times (versus 193 walks). The Mariners have struck out 273 times (versus 120 walks).

by Toxicadam on May 26, 2009 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs