2003 Playoff talk thread

[thirty-two]

Originally posted by Zona90
Giants lose game three 4-3 in 10 innings. Jose Cruz Jr. drops a routine flyball, wow! Check the Giants message board, truly classic.
http://insiders3.ezboard.com/fsanfr...geRange?topicID=1125.topic&start=401&stop=406

Haha I just saw it on espn.

Made my day!

 

[Lefty]

Giants lose the series to the Marlins as Snow is thrown out at home to lose. YES!

 

[Young Gun]

Originally posted by Zona90
Giants lose the series to the Marlins as Snow is thrown out at home to lose. YES!

last evening I posted a thread about 'Giants are done',well it turns out that I was correct. After leaving 18 guys on base in that one game & committing a multitude of errors, that is a combination for an early exit out of the playoffs.

I'm still sticking with my earlier prediction, I think the winner of the Yankees/Twins series wins the World Series.

 

[Lefty]

Cubs win!!! First post season win since 1908.

 

[arthurracoon]

GO CUBBIESSS!!!

 

[BC867]

As a long-time National League fan, I'm glad we have the Wild Card setup.

Otherwise the Braves would have been pulling their post-season fold just about every year in the World Series, instead of earlier.

The best hitting team in the league. Stocked with ace pitchers year after year. And Bobby Cox can't lead his team to more than one World Championship in over a decade of dominating the NL standings.

 

[Lefty]

This is unbelievable if true.

Boston -- If the A's advance to the American League Championship Series, they might be missing two-thirds of the Big Three.

Tim Hudson, Oakland's best pitcher all season, strained his left oblique (side) muscle and left Sunday's game after just one inning.

He is scheduled for an MRI exam today in Oakland, and it was unclear when he would be able to pitch again. Hudson might wind up joining All-Star Mark Mulder on the sideline. Mulder is still unavailable because of a stress fracture in his right femur.

"I felt a little tweak on the last pitch to (Todd) Walker to end the (first inning), but I didn't think about it,'' Hudson said. "Then on my warm-ups the next inning, I threw a couple nice and easy, and it grabbed a little. I tried to let one go, and I knew I wouldn't be able to do it.''

Hudson, dismayed, sat on the bench, head in his hands, for the remainder of the inning.

Three sources suggested Sunday that Hudson's injury might have stemmed from an alleged altercation on Friday night at Q, a Boston nightspot.

According to a security guard and a member of the bar staff, Hudson got into a skirmish with a Red Sox fan and threw several punches, including one that clipped a bartender.

"It was a big melee. He was throwing haymakers,'' said the security guard, who spoke on the condition his name not be used.

"Honest to God, he's 160 pounds and it took eight big guys to hold him back,'' the staff member said of Hudson. "It was five minutes of mayhem.''

Hudson was unavailable for comment about the alleged incident on Sunday night, and the manager of Q, Noel Gentelles, strongly denied that any clash had taken place.

"Tim and Barry (Zito) were both here, and they couldn't have been nicer,'' Gentelles said. "Barry even played with the band. There was no altercation.''

Hudson's early departure was a stunner for his teammates, who had to absorb the loss of Mulder in the same city less than two months earlier. Mulder exited a game at Fenway with leg pain after just three innings on Aug. 19 and hasn't pitched since then.

"That's deflating,'' reliever Steve Sparks said of Hudson's injury. "But it's a playoff series -- you don't have time to change your focus from the task at hand.''

According to trainer Larry Davis, Hudson's injury is near the same area where he had a problem during the Division Series against Minnesota last year, a problem above the hip that first appeared, Hudson said, before his final 2002 regular-season start.

"It's in the same area, but I don't think it's the same thing,'' Davis said. "It's a little higher up, more his oblique muscle.''

As he did in last year's Division Series, Hudson was working on short rest on Sunday. He threw just nine pitches in retiring the side in the first.

The injury is a common one for hitters, who often strain obliques on big swings. It might be easier for a pitcher to rehabilitate such an injury, but hitters are brought along slowly because of the risk of aggravating the strain on check swings.

Catcher Ramon Hernandez was a late scratch because of back spasms, which he said were the result of a swing in his final at-bat on Saturday night. The All-Star said he was feeling better Sunday afternoon and expects to play today.

 

[Lefty]

Cubs beat the Marlins in game 2 to tie up the series and the red Sox beat the Yankees in game 1.

 

[arthurracoon]

GO CUBS!!!
GO SOX!!!

 

[Dback Jon]

Always nice to see the Yankees lose!