A lot of these pitches have been strikes in the top half of the inning...

I'm starting to cool on Freese, pardon the pun...

Holland is fucking St Louis up right now.

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Yeah he is...I thought after Furcal's at bat where he seemed to be seeing the ball well and missed out on a double thanks to Beltre's glove, he was going to be in for a long night...

...looks like everyone but Berkman is in for the long night instead.

Rangers better add on a few if they want win this game.


I think a second run would be huge

Leadoff walk is a great way to do it...

...5 walks?!?!? Fucking A.

@ Kinsler's look when taking that fourth ball.

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I missed it...wha happen?

If Andrus doesnt get him over, it will come back to haunt them

Hard to explain. Just a very subtle, lazy "There's no chance this is a strike, I'm not even considering swinging" look. It just made me laugh.

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Can you blame him?

How the fuck is a foul tip on a pitch that you yourself say is "hittable" the best swing Hamilton has had all series?

McCarver probably thinks that was his second best swing of the series...

...for giving up a lot of walks, Jackson is keeping the Cards in this game.

Yeah hitters do that in SUPER OBVIOUS no chance in hell your swinging situations.

Cant blame em

Be funny if one of em got hit though as they stand they're disinterested and casual...baseball hipsters, if you will





TERRIBLE. If Andrus is going to bat second the least he can do is learn how to move a runner. Thats awful.

Very possible. LaRussa will find a run somewhere in the next couple innings.

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Well, if batting second doesn't work out for Andrus, there's a future in acting...fucker is acting like every pitch tracking his head like a heat seeking missile.

Six walks now...

...wow...the strke zone is shaky as hell.

This is probably one of the best 6 BB outings by a pitcher in World Series history.

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LaRussa is probably moving it around with his complaints...seriously. He gets in the umps heads, he's like the most effective complainer ever.

Make that seven...

...and it's not looking as good now...

you're getting to "John Madden talking about Favre" levels with LaRussa

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Ok, I admit. Ive heard that like 3 times about LaRussa in like 20 years and Im presenting it like its proven.

But I DID hear it recently, so...ya know, why would someone lie about that?


Unrelated: Did you know that Tony LaRussa invented the question mark?

Nice Move LaRussa, dumbass

Mitchell Boggs showed LaRussa something last night...

...yeah, well he just made me vomit.

Game

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Buck and McCarver as quiet as Hawk there for a minute.

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I thought Buck called it pretty joyously actually

The only solace I'm taking right now is that when Boggs goes into the clubhouse, it's going to be like that scene in Shawshank where Hadley is waiting to beat the living shit out of him...

He called it but then they sat quietly for way longer than those talkative douchebags normally do. They actually went silent for about 40 seconds without coming up with a story about Whitey Herzog's favorite restaurant or glamorizing some dickwad thing that Bob Gibson did thirty years ago.

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I was waiting for them to replay Pujols' homer again afterwards for comparisons sake.