Baseball Errors
Why don't they call errors anymore in baseball? I mean, they do it on all the obvious ones, but if there's even the slightest doubt, they won't rule it an error. Too many hurt feelings or some such. I was at the Astros-Diamondbacks game on August 6, and there were about three plays that should have been ruled errors, but were not. Lots of sloppy play, especially on the part of the Diamondbacks. I'm watching the Diamondbacks at the Giants right now, and there were a couple of bad plays on defense that weren't ruled errors. Fielding percentages have gone up and errors have gone down over the last few years -- all the "best defensive teams" in history (in quotes because it's based on fewest errors and highest fielding percentage) have been in the last ten years. Watching them play, it's obvious that the fielding has not gotten any better.
The Pepsi marching band commercial is horrible.
Jason Schmidt pitched rather horribly today (especially by his standards), but was pretty impressive at the plate. He hit a couple of bullets to left field that were just short of homeruns -- one hitting about a foot below the top of the wall and another hitting the ground right before the wall. They ended up being a double and a single, respectively, but they were really close. The Giants would be sitting in a much better situation if they could have gotten those and/or some better clutch hitting. I think they've left a runner in scoring position in every inning except the first (in which they scored four runs, their only runs of the game so far (bottom of the seventh, one out).
In non-baseball news, I received season eight of The Simpsons in the mail from Amazon yesterday (very nice) and recently purchased a Super Nintendo and a GameCube on eBay (won the auctions on Monday, so still waiting for those). Also, possible Vegas trip this weekend. Yep, that's right, I'm blowing through my money.
The Giants have now scored three runs to take the lead, meaning Schmidt stays unbeaten by the Diamondbacks since September 5, 2003. Entering today's game, he was 11-0 with a 2.61 ERA in his last 16 starts against them (allowing six earned runs today certainly hurt that ERA).
The Pepsi marching band commercial is horrible.
Jason Schmidt pitched rather horribly today (especially by his standards), but was pretty impressive at the plate. He hit a couple of bullets to left field that were just short of homeruns -- one hitting about a foot below the top of the wall and another hitting the ground right before the wall. They ended up being a double and a single, respectively, but they were really close. The Giants would be sitting in a much better situation if they could have gotten those and/or some better clutch hitting. I think they've left a runner in scoring position in every inning except the first (in which they scored four runs, their only runs of the game so far (bottom of the seventh, one out).
In non-baseball news, I received season eight of The Simpsons in the mail from Amazon yesterday (very nice) and recently purchased a Super Nintendo and a GameCube on eBay (won the auctions on Monday, so still waiting for those). Also, possible Vegas trip this weekend. Yep, that's right, I'm blowing through my money.
The Giants have now scored three runs to take the lead, meaning Schmidt stays unbeaten by the Diamondbacks since September 5, 2003. Entering today's game, he was 11-0 with a 2.61 ERA in his last 16 starts against them (allowing six earned runs today certainly hurt that ERA).
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