Game #42: A's 1, Giants 0
May 19, 2006 | A's vs. San Francisco
Didn't I tell you that Dan Haren was awesome? Tonight's game lived up to expectations.
• A pitchers' duel between former Pepperdine pitchers Danny Haren and Noah Lowry. Lowry is a good pitcher, but this is the second time already that Haren has won when they've faced each other. (The other time was June last year.) To be fair, Lowry was injured already this season. However, Haren's got more heat.
• The A's pitch to Barry Bonds. No rubber chickens here in Oaktown. Bonds walked once, but it was a full count. There was only one intentional walk in the game -- and it was to Eric Chavez! His first for the season.
• Double play ballet: Mark Ellis gets Giants 1B Mark Sweeney out at second base and jumps over him to throw the ball to first base. Nick Swisher does a split and catches the ball, beating Giants catcher Mike Matheny.
• And of course, Huston Street strikes out Bonds to end the game. How perfect an ending for an A's fan could there be?
• Giants CF Steve Finley slid on the wet grass on his back to catch Jay Payton's fly ball in the 3rd inning. The play was so amazing, I clapped and so did several non-Giants fans around me. This told me there were a lot of old-school baseball folk in attendance, the type who applaud a good play no matter whose team benefits from it.
• Despite sitting in the vicinity of the visitor dugout, I was surrounded by A's fans clad in green and gold. There was one old-timer in Giants gear and a mitt sitting behind me who sounded like he'd spend most of the game mouthing off, but he wisely kept quiet as the A's fans around me were quite vocal, living or dying with every pitch. I looked around to see who was standing up to root for Bonds at each of his at-bats. I was surprised that there weren't more Giants fans at the sold-out game tonight.
Postscript (5/20/2006):
I forgot to say, during the national anthem, the Diamond Vision camera showed Mark Kotsay at the exact moment when he did the sign of the cross. Amen!
(Game experience: Sec. 110 Row 2 Seat 11. Two rows behind the MVP seats behind first base. Excellent view of the double play! I left the office upon hearing that I'd have to drive through a traffic jam. By the time I got to Hayward, it was raining. The game start was delayed by 31 minutes because of the rain. When I got to the Coliseum and settled into my seat, they were ready to start the national anthem. Perfect!)
A's record: 22-19 | streak: W-5 | well-A-meter: 4
Didn't I tell you that Dan Haren was awesome? Tonight's game lived up to expectations.
• A pitchers' duel between former Pepperdine pitchers Danny Haren and Noah Lowry. Lowry is a good pitcher, but this is the second time already that Haren has won when they've faced each other. (The other time was June last year.) To be fair, Lowry was injured already this season. However, Haren's got more heat.
• The A's pitch to Barry Bonds. No rubber chickens here in Oaktown. Bonds walked once, but it was a full count. There was only one intentional walk in the game -- and it was to Eric Chavez! His first for the season.
• Double play ballet: Mark Ellis gets Giants 1B Mark Sweeney out at second base and jumps over him to throw the ball to first base. Nick Swisher does a split and catches the ball, beating Giants catcher Mike Matheny.
• And of course, Huston Street strikes out Bonds to end the game. How perfect an ending for an A's fan could there be?
• Giants CF Steve Finley slid on the wet grass on his back to catch Jay Payton's fly ball in the 3rd inning. The play was so amazing, I clapped and so did several non-Giants fans around me. This told me there were a lot of old-school baseball folk in attendance, the type who applaud a good play no matter whose team benefits from it.
• Despite sitting in the vicinity of the visitor dugout, I was surrounded by A's fans clad in green and gold. There was one old-timer in Giants gear and a mitt sitting behind me who sounded like he'd spend most of the game mouthing off, but he wisely kept quiet as the A's fans around me were quite vocal, living or dying with every pitch. I looked around to see who was standing up to root for Bonds at each of his at-bats. I was surprised that there weren't more Giants fans at the sold-out game tonight.
Postscript (5/20/2006):
I forgot to say, during the national anthem, the Diamond Vision camera showed Mark Kotsay at the exact moment when he did the sign of the cross. Amen!
(Game experience: Sec. 110 Row 2 Seat 11. Two rows behind the MVP seats behind first base. Excellent view of the double play! I left the office upon hearing that I'd have to drive through a traffic jam. By the time I got to Hayward, it was raining. The game start was delayed by 31 minutes because of the rain. When I got to the Coliseum and settled into my seat, they were ready to start the national anthem. Perfect!)
A's record: 22-19 | streak: W-5 | well-A-meter: 4
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