notalpujols

this is what happens when you park the bus 10 games before the season ends. There's no spark or drive.

god dammit.

the ****ing Royals. Seriously?

Cool. Time to find something else to watch.

Huzzah

not a save situation now; rest Street?

insurance

I'm glad baseball has instant replay, but it's a terrible sport to have good replay in. The way the field is shaped and where they put the cameras just isn't good

They could build electronic sensors into the bases, the shoes and the balls to register when a tag is made.

Phew... BULLPEN PLEASE

It's happening!!!

Monday is Coco Crisp jersey day in Oakland. if he's out for his own promotion day, that'd suck

A home run, and Crisp out of the game? Nice!

Wow. I can't believe they ****ed this inning up. I gotta go to bed

I agree with this, but I don't think we have time to stretch him out.

If you're gentle enough...

Hopefully Wade LeBlanc received his boarding pass for his flight back to SLC when Scioscia went to the mound in the 4th inning tonight... so... who else can we put on the firing line? The next start in this slot is against Oakland... well, dang. That's going to work out great...

for Oakland.

Coco almost lost his shit there. Wonderful

Jasonesto Grillieri

Of course the coaching staff is going to try to stretch the starting pitchers, knowing that there aren't a lot of off days the rest of the way and the bullpen is going to be carrying a heavy load. It's just good fortune that they had the lead large enough to test their luck tonight.

Team has what? 1 day off the rest of the way. With the lead 9-0 at the time...and it being the 7th inning, it's totally reasonable for Sosh to pull the vets to give them the rest of the game off

We also have to opportunity of rotating these guys through the DH spot, so the rest isn't a big deal, especially since tomorrow's game is in the same time zone. I'm not sure 3-4 innings is a big deal in terms of energy for tomorrow anyway. The risk of injury is small but still there, so why not have better defensive players in when you're ahead?

I already partied a little too much tonight

we aren't all so privileged

At absolute least we can all agree if that did happen it would be on the pitching and not on Scioscia pulling some starters.

Pulling Pujols and Hamilton was the right thing to do.

How were you capable of doing that knowing that we already lost a couple games. By the way, I'm not the slightest but worried about this game.

That's fine, but I'm still a little worried about this game. Not as worried as I am about LeBlanc pitching tomorrow.

Argh... I was hoping the game would be wrapped up in time for Homer vs. the 18th Amendment at 8 p.m., but looks unlikely now

You must be pumped

No, I'm terrified. It would really suck to blow a 9-0 lead. I was already starting to think about tomorrow's game.

Here we go...