Game #142: A's 9, Rays 6
September 10, 2006 | A's @ Tampa Bay
What a wacky ending! • I confess, I wasn't sure if Huston Street could do it. But a mini-powwow on the mound with the infielders and then... Line drive right to Dan Johnson who can't beat Cantu back to first. DJ gets up and throws to Scutaro who tags second to get Norton out. And it's a 3-6 double play to end the game. Whew!
• Exciting game with each team taking turns at the lead. But once again, the A's don't give up when they lose the lead. That tenacity is buoying the well-A-meter.
• The Big Hurt homers for the fifth consecutive game. There's also been talk of his signing to be DH for the A's next year. I'm all for it!
• Thomas isn't the only one with the home runs. Chavy, Swisher, and Scutaro also homered today.
• This is embarrassing, but when I heard Rays's starter Jae Seo's name over the radio pronounced as J-So, I thought they were coming up with a hip-hop nickname for Johan Santana of the Twins.
If the well-A-meter is not at max, I'm feeling a twinge of fear that we're too hot too early. I hope the A's sustain their winning moves for the next 20 games... and then some!
(Game experience: Some radio and TV)
A's record: 82-60 | streak: W-1 | magic number: 15 | well-A-meter: 4.95
posted by blank book at 7:58 PM
2 Comments:
I think your cautious approach to the well-A-meter is well founded. The A's are certainly among the enigmas in the league. They rank next to last in hitting and are in the middle of the pack in on-base percentage by opposing batters.
So if the pitching is mediocre and the hitting is lousy, how are they doing it? One way is that they are second in double plays turned.
I have great confidence that the A's will make the post-season, but Detroit looks like the only easy pickings, if they can manage to hold on in the Central. The Twins have the pitching and the White Sox and Yankees have better hitting. Of course, it'll end up being whoever gets hot at the right time, rather than who played well for 162 games.
To me, Jae Seo sounds like the name of Asian pop star (there's actually Jay Chou, who starred in "Initial D" and is a pop star in Taiwan).
Pray for the Tigers to hold off the Twins in their division and the Yanks for the best AL record. They are by far the best match up the A's can hope for in the post season.
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