All We Do Is Throw No Hitters
Without question, the best thing about The Flap is the way it connects Giants fans around the world. As the no hitter was unfolding, and I was avoiding the blog for stupid jinx reasons that I don’t believe in anyway, I wondered if there were any Flappers in attendance. I thought I’d remembered MacDog was going, wondered if PK and DJ went as well. I always assume BuzzSaw is there.
Anyway, turns out but one lone wolf Flapper made it to the game. Considering we’re 2,906.7 miles away from New York, one ain’t bad….MacDog, take it away…..
Sorry I’m late with this. I gotta say, when Craw made that play to end the 8th and then Heston got those three punch-outs in the 9th to finish it off, I was as excited as I’ve ever been at any sporting event, and I’ve been to just about everything, except the Super Bowl, as far as team sports go. I’m still stunned — Chris Heston!!!, not someone like MadBum or Timmy. Ok, so that wasn’t exactly the ’27 Yanks he faced, and the Mets certainly helped with all those bats left on their shoulders. But what an amazing game: That homegrown infield making every play look easy, Heston putting it where Buster wanted it just about every time, and then throwing that hook of his to finish ’em off. And to be surrounded by Giants fans (yes, there were many) as it all unfolded. I’m just so very grateful to be a fan of this team and get a chance to experience in person one of the many special moments they’ve given us over the last five years.
This was my third no-hitter. The first two were against the Giants: Terry Mulholland in ’90 and Kevin Millwood in ’03, both at the Vet, the only no-hitters ever thrown there. So maybe I was owed one.
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D’backs down by a run, 6-5.
Rusty Staub looks like he should be wearing a size 9 cap. No one should ever mock Bochy again.
Loo, it happened to me too, but with tennis pros . . . I was in a Madrid hotel bar and chatting up this English tourist. I was positive her and I would be heading up to my room in 5, maybe 10 minutes max. Unfortunately, these two dick heads walk in talking about their tennis tournament matches that afternoon and of course, she was listening to the conversation and asked them questions about the tournament and life as a tour pro. Pfffttt! Exit stage left for me and speaking of left – lefty and me had a joyless time in bed. 😦
Ben Buchanan:
“The Red Sox lost this game in the second, not by digging a hole so deep they couldn’t climb out of it, but simply by reinforcing their identity as baseball’s most expensive three-ring circus. They did this by leading off the inning with back-to-back hits off Wei-Yin Chen from Xander Bogaerts and Pablo Sandoval. They both rounded first and headed to second. And they were both thrown out.
Honestly, at this point, I struggle to continue. That was an inning tailor-made for the Red Sox to get out to an early lead, maybe even put up a crooked number on Chen. It would be one thing if Pablo Sandoval had simply grounded into a double play–he’s certainly done it often enough before–but for both to get thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double? One after the other? The Red Sox are finding new, more impressive ways not to score.”
BF mentioned this earlier today.
It was hilarious how Kruk kissed Buster’s rear end so much in this morning’s KNBR interview. It was as if Buster had thrown AND caught the Heston no hitter, and Heston was merely a bystander. Seriously, we get that Buster is supposedly the Giants golden boy, but at some point, the mouthpieces need to tone the Buster love down just a little. Give Heston a little credit for actually throwing the dang no-no…
Looks like Bochy’s been listening to me. 😉
Pavlovic reports they’ll DL Pence to get his forearm healed up, and bring up somebody, not named, from AAA…
It’s good that Pence is going on the DL. I’ve never been less concerned about someone on the Giants going on the DL . . . Doesn’t matter who – Buster; or, in this case, Pence or someone else. This team can be missing a part or even a couple of parts, and it still runs smooth. Of course, I don’t want any of these guys on the DL, but there is a quiet confidence about this team, where if one player goes down, another player will do a competent job replacing him. Sheesh, when Bonds was playing, you always worried about them pitching around him. With this team, you can’t do that – 1 through 8 will beat you . . . Shit, even our pitchers can hit.