What was your favorite baseball moment of 2009?
(via fuckyeahbaseball)
- Jim Thome hitting a three-run home run off Kyle Farnsworth on Opening Day because Trey Hillman is an idiot, giving us one of the best Dugouts of all time.
- Jim Thome hitting a grand slam and a three-run home run on July 17th.
- Jim Thome getting traded to the Dodgers.
Jim Thome brings my life joy and purpose.
Also:
- Orlando Hudson’s cycle at the Dodger Stadium opener, April 13, and Vin throwing out the first pitch.
- Chad Billingsley’s 11-strikeout, 0-walk game against the Giants, also in the Dodger Stadium opener, April 13.
- Clayton Kershaw’s 13-strikeout, 1-walk game against the Giants on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day.
- A few Tim Wakefield starts. But I’ll go with his near no-no against the A’s on April 15. 9 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 4 K. This started their 11-game winning streak. Wake is awesome.
- Chad Billingsley: 8 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 5 K on July 5 against the Padres. And he hit his first career home run and nearly killed Eliezer Alfonzo running over him at the plate (not after the home run). And then Broxton came in and ruined things. But the Dodgers won anyway.
- Randy Wolf: 7 2/3 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 10 K on August 16 against the Diamondbacks. He also hit a two-run home run and had an RBI double.
- Dodgers vs. Giants, September 19 and 20, because they kicked the shit out of Brad Penny on the 19th (lol schadenfreude) and then the Giants were up 1-0 on the 20th before The Immortal Tim Lincecum gave up that big-ass bomb to Endre in the third.
- NLDS Game 2. Sorry, Sam. Well, not really.
- And anything that resulted in me and Olivia spazzing out on the Internet, good or bad, including but not limited to Blake DeWitt tripping over home plate, Brad Ausmus managing the Dodgers, the rare times Mark Loretta did things that were constructive, James Loney’s first Dodger Stadium home run, nearly everything Vin has ever said about anything, Awesomely Average Jon Garland writing our jokes for us, and other stuff I can’t really think of off the top of my head. Because the Dodgers’ season crashed and burned, but it was awesome until then.
reblogged from fuckyeahbaseball
This might be the weirdest walkoff pile I’ve ever seen. Look at Thome. He’s so slow, he didn’t even get to the dogpile in time, so all he can do is…that…whatever it is. But there’s no such thing as a bad home-plate dogpile when you love the winning team. (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
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Walkoff pile! (Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
Clutch. Who knew? (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
Two Dodgers fans watch the last at-bat.
- Olivia: OMFG
- Olivia: MWSNBN
- Olivia: LORETTA
- Amanda: NOOO
- Amanda: or rather
- Amanda: whatever
- Olivia: how do players do this
- Olivia: i'm about to vomit
- Amanda: I know, right?
- Olivia: OGGKLDASJFLKJFASDKJFLKAJSDF
- Olivia: OMFG
- Amanda: !!!!!!!!!!
- Olivia: MFGJFOFMJG;
- Olivia: OFG
- Olivia: JFKDASDJ
- Amanda: I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE THAT
- Olivia: OHHHH MY GOD
- Olivia: I CAN'T BELIEVE IT
- Amanda: AHAHAHA ANDRE FIST PUMP
- Olivia: OHHHHH MY GOD
- Olivia: LMFAO
- Olivia: GEOFFREY
- Olivia: RUNNING CRAZILY
- Olivia: OMFGGFDSAK;
- Olivia: amanda
- Olivia: i wish we werw atching this together
- Olivia: to go crazy
- Amanda: I KNOW RIGHT
- Olivia: OMFG
- Olivia: THANK YOU MATT HOLLIDAY
- Olivia: LMFAO
- Olivia: I LOVE HOW THE GUYS DIDN'T KNOW
- Olivia: WHAT TO DO
- Olivia: THEY WERE JUST RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE
- Amanda: LMFAOOOOO
- Amanda: JIMMER WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING
- Olivia: LOLL
- Olivia: I KNOW
- Olivia: OH MY GOD
- Amanda: DID YOU SEE THAT
- Amanda: MY GOD
- Olivia: NOOOOO
- Olivia: MY FRIEND TEXTED ME
- Olivia: CRAP
- Olivia: WHAT HAPPENED
- Olivia: OLOLOL
- Olivia: LORETTA
- Amanda: LORETTA
- Amanda: Sorry Vin, I never mute you, but
- Olivia: LOL
- Olivia: omg this team
- Olivia: they never die
- Olivia: i love them i love them i love them
- Olivia: the bison looks so happy
- Olivia: omgggg THESE HAPPY GUYS
- Amanda: OH SURE YOU CAN RUN OUT OF THE DUGOUT, THOME
- Olivia: LOLOL
- Olivia: amanda omg
- Olivia: did this just happen
- Olivia: did useless pickup and mwsnbn like
- Amanda: YES IT DID OMG
- Olivia: ... carry us to this victory?
- Amanda: They did!
- Amanda: OMG
- Olivia: i'm just so...
- Olivia: LIKE THESE TWO
- Amanda: I KNOW
Olivia and I just had a breakthrough.
- Olivia: OMFG
- Olivia: OMFGOMFG?!
- Amanda: WHAT
- Amanda: OMG
- Amanda: ARE YOU KIDDING ME
- Olivia: WHAT IS THIS?
- Amanda: MWSNBN
- Olivia: I AM USING HIS NAME NOW
- Olivia: BECAUSE
- Amanda: OMG
- Olivia: HE CAME THROUGH
- Olivia: LORETTA.
- Olivia: THERE. I SAID IT.
- Amanda: THIS IS A MONUMENTAL MOMENT
- Olivia: IT REALLY IS
Free Blake DeWitt! - Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness
So, here’s what we’ve got. The younger player who can hit lefties and had some upside sits while two older players who can’t hit anyone - and let’s face it, their careers are over - play. Makes total sense!
Olivia and I have been bitching about this for the last two days (or, you know, longer, because we like Blake better than Castro or MWSNBN). I lovelovelove these kinds of things where everyone sees a problem except the people who need to see it.
This is not a suggestion that the team will stop playing like ass simply because Torre stops starting shitty players. But that might be a nice way to start getting them to stop playing like ass, n’est-ce pas?
