22 innings of baseball goodness
Padres-Rockies last night was pretty great.
Here’s my favorite part of the AP recap:
Manager Clint Hurdle noticed that his players were a little tight.
“This was a good game to get outside yourself,” Hurdle said. “About the 16th inning, I said, ‘Hey boys, no matter what’s in front of us, there’s a world of people out there who’ve got harder rows to hoe than we do. No matter what happens the rest of the night, have some fun with this thing.’ ”
His players listened. It just took them six more innings to score a run.
I’m not sure if that’s sarcasm or not, but it sure seems like it. Six more innings for the speech to get a result? Listening would be joking around followed by a HR the next at-bat.
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I’m not sure how I feel about there not being a curfew anymore. Luckily in this case, it was a Thursday, so you know their next game won’t be a day game. But, boy would it suck if they had a 1pm start today.
Harder rows to hoe? I didn’t realize the skipper was a farm boy from Nebraska.
I’m picturing him wearing a straw hat and overalls in the dugout.
Nice part for us in Colorado is that, even after the Mariners game was over, we had a whole other game worth of baseball to watch. Should one really want to stay up until 2 am Colorado time (yeah, I didn’t). I was surprised to hear it was only the longest game in the last 15 years, though. 22 innings is mind-boggling. I have a lot of respect for fans that stayed to the end.
It would be nice to be Houston or Arizona, knowing that if you get to their bullpen, they’ll probably just forfeit.
I can’t believe I watched the last 8 innings of this game.
I’d noticed on the M’s game part of the blog that the game was going long, so I checked the score and lo and behold, they were just in the 18th. So I tuned in for 4 more innings of baseball at 12:30 am. MLB audio package, $14.95 a year for every game, in and out of market. A great bargain, and since I can’t get radio reception at work, the only way I can hear M’s games at work. Plus we listened to opening day from Israel last year.
How much rest does Ledezma need after that? When did he last throw 5 innings?
Wait – it took them 6 more innings to score? That means that, promptly after Hurdle’s inspirational speech, they spent 3 innings being shut out by Wilfredo Ledezma.
I would argue that Hurdle’s speech actually made them worse.
My favorite part of the box score is that the Rockies had 27 plate appearances by guys batting below the Mendoza line and they still won.
2. Actually, Big Rapids, MI… but yeah, one of the stranger analogies he could have pulled out of his straw hat.
Baseball Reference has answered my question. Ledezma last pitched 5 innings in 2006, a year in which he started 7 games.
Hurdle’s statement is definitely not sarcasm. It’s a way of reminding his players that, no matter how burdened they might feel to have to keep playing, they still are being paid well to PLAY. As opposed to the rest of the us, most of whom are paid substantially less to WORK.
Derek suggesting that a manager’s words can somehow affect the outcome (“a HR the next at-bat”) — that’s gotta be sarcasm.
Good game to watch. I was at a bar and only partially paying attention and thought the Rockies won it in 14. Came home and still caught the last 6 innings. It was worth watching for the craziness that started coming out of the broadcast team. By the 17th inning all professionalism had been lost as they started getting snippy with each other and the search of food became a priority over the game. I think it was the 21st inning when the play by play guy was asked, “When are you going to go potty?” Classic game and glad I stayed up till about 2:20 here in Colorado.
Time release inspiration.
DMZ was wondering, if this phrase was sarcasm…
I couldn’t sleep and sat down at the computer and saw the comments at the bottom of the M’s game. At first I couldn’t believe people were still commenting. Great fun. No other sport does this, go on forever; cricket can be five days but they have tons of breaks and go home overnight.
Yeah I listened to 9 innings of that game, the LAST 9 innings, on XM. I know Petco is a tough run-scoring environment, but come on! I couldn’t believe that guy getting thrown out by a mile at 3rd with no outs in the 13th. Ouch.
One of the ESPN page 2 guys had a great article on crazy stuff that happens in extra innings. I wish I remembered the link. The best line was about the crazy things the broadcasters begin to say around the 14th inning. Color guy leans over to play-by-play guy and says like “Did I ever tell you about the time I murdered a man with my bare hands in Las Vegas?”
This marks the one time this season that I get to watch LIVE night baseball in Hawaii.
Luckily in this case, it was a Thursday, so you know their next game won’t be a day game. But, boy would it suck if they had a 1pm start today.
Yeah, but it would still suck to have to leave, get on a plane, and fly a couple of time zones east (as the Rockies did, to play in Houston tonight). JoeJessica caught all 22 innings. Think he gets the day off tonight?
They should rig up Petco so they can move the fences in. A few feet an inning, every inning after the 12th (or something like that).
18: I remember the Red Sox announcers in a rain-delayed West Coast extra innings game in the seventies asking for postcards from anyone still listening and they got a few hundred.
I’m sure this game is going to do amazing things for the ERA’s of both teams. ATTN fantasy players
he’s a manly man, that Torrealba.
this morning Marzy was reminicing about catching a double-header where both games went into extra innings …
That is: Priceless
Hmm…define irony. :.(