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7:15 p.m.
LHP Jordan Montgomery (2-7, 4.23) vs, RHP Ben Lively (3-3, 3.03)
BSM // KMOX // WIJR
(and Bally Sports South/Southwest Extra)On Thursday the Cards get some breaks.
Baltimore scores late and downs Milwaukee 6-3.
The Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw shutout the Reds 6-0.
The Cubs are at the Angels later tonight.
One winning streak and we are back in contention despite the poor record.
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Thanks for the good news, Rats, but they’re still 8 back. And oh… I’ll watch the game, but I won’t be participating in any of the festivies.
That 1-0 game on Wednesday turned out good, but it certainly wasn’t what I’d term an all time classic like my favorite 1-0 game which was the battle between Chris Carpenter and Roy Halladay in the deciding game 5 of the opening round of the ’11 post-season. Most of us probably recall the 1st inning lead-off triple from Furcal to begin the game followed by the RBI double from our old friend, Skippy to push across the only run of the entire ballgame. After that we witnessed 8 innings of heart pounding pressure cooker baseball in which the outcome of the series literally hinged on each and every pitch from the two great war horse SP’ers for the entire remaining 8 innings of that post-season game. If ever there was a game that defined the term pitching duel, that one was it.
The NLC’s certainly no powerhouse, but not as bad as the ALC. The Twins are a game under .500 and lead that division by 2 games.
No, he sure wasn’t, gscottar. I was going to mention that, but didn’t want to be too longwinded. You know me…Haha! At any rate, yeah, that image of him swinging and then obviously in pain as he struggled out of the batter’s box and proved to be the last out of that series was certainly one that was symbolic.
Maybe I’ll start a thread asking for everyone’s top 5 favorite post-season games they’ve ever watched on TV or in attendance. I know at least 2 or 3 of my top 5 are games in which the Cardinals were involved. No game tonight and not only am I bored, but with the way this season has unfolded to this point, some nice memories may be just the ticket…Haha!
This could be a tough series – well, they all are when you have a last place team – but the Reds might be on a bit of a roll with the excitement surrounding the youngster Elly De La Cruz. The kid looks like a future star.
Our neighbor invited us back over for the NBA Finals game tomorrow night, so we may go over there again. If not, I will be watching this one, as much to check out this kid shortstop the Reds have as much as to see if we can actually win two in a row.
As for post season games, the first one that comes to mind for me is that 2011 NLDS game 5 against the Phillies with Roy Halladay matched up against his buddy Chris Carpenter. I was riveted to the tube that night – one of the best post season games I have ever seen. We scored two batters in, and that was all of the scoring in the game.
And talk about emotions, the game ended in a somewhat tragic way with Ryan Howard tearing his Achilles getting out of the batters box on the last out of the game. Just a wild, crazy, edge-of-your-seat ball game.
Yeah, after the visitor half of the first, it was like watching a member of a bomb disposal unit working for 9 innings knowing that the slightest solitary mistake would result in real bad day.
My favorite was Game 6 of the 1985 NLCS when Jack the Ripper sunk the Dodgers with a late blast. Every time I watch a clip of that homer I chuckle as it took Jack about five minutes to circle the bases.
That was a good one, gscottar. I remember not more than 30 seconds after Clark ripped that 3 run tater my phone rang. I picked up, said, “Hello” and heard my 80 year old grandmother on the other end screaming like a teenaged girl at a Fab Four concert…Haha! She then said, “Okay, I have to go…We gotta’ get these last 3 outs!”
Games 5 and 6 of the 1985 NLCS were classics. I used to listen to a Boulder alternative rock radio station all the time back then, and I recall driving to work the morning after game 5, and even that station on their news recap mentioned the Cardinals beating the Dodgers and playing the clip of Jack Buck going “Go crazy folks, go crazy!!”
Then game six and Lasorda mulling over whether to pitch to Clark, or walk him and pitch to Van Slyke. Clark hit that ball and looked into the dugout taking forever to get around the bases. Buck said something like “…and maybe the Cardinals will ride to the World Series on that one.”
Clark tells a great story about that too. When he arrived back in St Louis and was driving to his home, the neighbors had the street all lit up and decorated and gave him a true hero’s welcome.
Game 3 of 1982 WS on TV. Willie McGee hit two homers and made a spectacular over the wall catch in the 9th inning of Gorman Thomas’s would be home run to close out the victory. I actually though my mom was going to have a heart attack. That was my first World Series as a father, and I had my 3 month old boy on my lap the whole time explaining to him every nuance of the game.
It’s entirely impossible for me to be impartial when listing the top 5 post-season games I’ve ever seen if I include the Cardinals, so these are the top 5 that didn’t involve my favorite team.
1. 1976 Royals/Yankees ALCS Game 5…Who can forget Chambliss being mobbed as he circled the bases after the series deciding walk-off tater at Yankee Stadium in the home half of the 9th which came an inning after the great George Brett had tied the game with a 3 run HR in the 8th?
2. 1986 Red Sox/Angels ALCS Game 5…A baseball game that would rivet someone’s eyes to the action if it were the first baseball game that person had ever seen…It helped that Al Michaels was calling the action. I recall after the network returned to the TV broadcast following a commercial break during a pitching change he said, “Welcome back, and the battle continues to rage”…Haha!
3. 1980 Phillies/Astros NLCS Game 5…After Game 1, the remaining 4 games of that NLCS were decided in extras. This one was a 10 inning seesaw battle that involved 6 lead changes before the game was settled in the 10th inning to send the Phillies to the WS vs. the Royals.
4. 1986 Red Sox/Mets WS Game 6…I would have liked to have placed this one higher on my list, but I continue to abhor the NY Mets and even though I poke fun with the oven mitts, I’ve always felt horrible for poor Bill Buckner who was a heck of a baseball player.
5. 1991 Braves/Twins WS Game 7…Jack Morris with the 10 innings of work for the 1-0 win in the deciding 7th game is hard to beat.
Honorable mentions could be countless, but I have to go with the 1988 Dodgers/A’s WS Game 1 and the call on the walk-off 2 run tater…”I don’t believe what I just saw!”
The most exciting game I ever attended was Game 6 of the 1993 World Series in Toronto when Joe Carter smashed a three-run homer in the bottom of the 9th to walk off the series against the Phillies 8-6. In those days I was working in Toronto and as a consequence was a temporary Blue Jays fan. But I was wearing my red STL cap at the game!
Cubs lost again last night. 3-1 to Anaheim. The Angels swept them.
This would be a perfect time for the Redbirds to start to get on a roll. I think the game tonight is a very important one.
Oh, and by the way, the Brewers have Oakland tonight at Miller Park in Milwaukee. That could be a three game sweep so we better be careful we don’t fall ten games out of 1st place.
Another one for those of us old enough to have been watching, was 1975 World Series game 6. That one was amazing. And who can forget the same game in 2011??
Most of us weren’t there and television was still in its infancy as far as sports broadcasts, but game 7 of the 1960 World Series may have been the best big time game ever played. MLB network did an entire show about that game with a panel that included three players from each team. Bob Costas hosted it.
I got a call from a good friend, and Cub fan, after the 1986 Series. He could not believe Buckner had missed that ground ball in game six. I told him that I thought that play had to resolve an outstanding concern he had. That is, it would not have mattered if the Cubs had traded Buckner or Durham. Your first baseman would have missed the ground ball against the Padres in game five of the NL Playoffs.
Will DC be recalled tonight? And if so, for who? It seems like it could be any of Yepez, Baker, or Mercado. I’m going to guess Yepez as he feels useless right now. One of he and Baker is redundant.
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