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lol and another good hit with a guy on 2nd base by drew one run wont be enough the way this bullpen is pitching though heh
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deja vu here in the top of the 11th.... Let's hold on this time!
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Gold stars to Tracy and Haren. Boourns to pretty much everybody else.
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Drew thrown out AGAIN at home? CMon Hale! Cost the DBacks another run on Tracy's hit.
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Alright come on Qualls get the job done here this washington for crying out loud it isn't boston lol
My DVR kicked in on recorded programs. I thought this game was over! What happened?
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A win is a win. Hey, maybe THIS will be the turnaround game... 
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Good win, but lets be honest, these were the Nats who are terrible. It's going to take a lot more offense to take the next series in Philadelphia
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thank you offense for atleast waking up in extra innings, what a great game pitched by haren to bad he didn't get the win cause he deserved it and a good job by Qualls on getting the job done with a guy on third and one out now allowing a run. Also the dodgers are already down 3-0 to Flordia which is good
Utterly beyond belief. This is a very special win for this team. Will it just become another blip? A fleeting tease?
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You know what this game, and 5-run comeback show? That the PLAYERS have the heart and the will to keep scrapping.
We just have to get the cud-chewing dimwit out of the picture and out of their way.
We just have to get the cud-chewing dimwit out of the picture and out of their way.
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The funny thing is that if the Diamondbacks go on to have a successful season, we'll all look back at this game fondly. Even if it was a trainwreck.
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This was such a bizarre game. The final score in a pitcher's duel was 7-5.
Haren pitched better than I ever have seen him pitch and hopefully he will start the ASG for the second straight year. The magic for him stopped in the 9th (REYNOLDS!), so it was, oh no, decision time for BoMel. Up by two with nobody out, putting your closer in was the right thing to do since Haren could not get the L if that was done. Lyon sadly tried to put the 'loser' in 'closer', but Reynolds' third error was not costly and #38 pitched out the bases-loaded jam.
Nobody expected Rauch to give up the farm like he did. D-backs 10th inning runs were all scored with two out! Pena nearly blew that game (why? Tony? why??). I was worried when Qualls came into the game with an inherited baserunner, but Montero holding onto the ball after Kearns collided with him saved the day. And Qualls did not blow this game (wiping the sweat off brow).
Momentum on Arizona's side now and Ayala fell victim. He hit Ojeda, allowed CY to move the runner over and gave up the eventual game-winning hit to Drew. Qualls received a two-run lead to hold onto and shut the Nats down 1-2-3. The D-backs NEED Qualls to succeed. Be glad you're not Nationals fans, having to deal with a loss like this where you're dead all game then miracolusly alive then dead again, then alive and finally dead and the coffin nailed shut, I am sure glad the D-backs ended on the sunny side of that!
Haren almost had an amazing eight innings thrown in the crapper, but even despite mistakes be a few individuals, I can't say that the team didn't try to win, not once. The offense still reeked through nine innings (half of the 14 hits came in extra innings!), but like I always say, the D-backs can never make it easy. And LA lost, in 11 innings, ironically, so first place solely belongs to the D-backs...for now!
Haren pitched better than I ever have seen him pitch and hopefully he will start the ASG for the second straight year. The magic for him stopped in the 9th (REYNOLDS!), so it was, oh no, decision time for BoMel. Up by two with nobody out, putting your closer in was the right thing to do since Haren could not get the L if that was done. Lyon sadly tried to put the 'loser' in 'closer', but Reynolds' third error was not costly and #38 pitched out the bases-loaded jam.
Nobody expected Rauch to give up the farm like he did. D-backs 10th inning runs were all scored with two out! Pena nearly blew that game (why? Tony? why??). I was worried when Qualls came into the game with an inherited baserunner, but Montero holding onto the ball after Kearns collided with him saved the day. And Qualls did not blow this game (wiping the sweat off brow).
Momentum on Arizona's side now and Ayala fell victim. He hit Ojeda, allowed CY to move the runner over and gave up the eventual game-winning hit to Drew. Qualls received a two-run lead to hold onto and shut the Nats down 1-2-3. The D-backs NEED Qualls to succeed. Be glad you're not Nationals fans, having to deal with a loss like this where you're dead all game then miracolusly alive then dead again, then alive and finally dead and the coffin nailed shut, I am sure glad the D-backs ended on the sunny side of that!
Haren almost had an amazing eight innings thrown in the crapper, but even despite mistakes be a few individuals, I can't say that the team didn't try to win, not once. The offense still reeked through nine innings (half of the 14 hits came in extra innings!), but like I always say, the D-backs can never make it easy. And LA lost, in 11 innings, ironically, so first place solely belongs to the D-backs...for now!
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What a weird game, but still a win nonetheless. A great game from Haren and it is very unfortunate he got the loss. But I agree how in a pitcher's duel, we got to a 7-5 score? Whats with that?
One good thing is that I think maybe having to score 7 runs was a very good thing. Guys were moving around the bases and had to score. Hopefully this gets some juices going. Our starting pitching has been excellent all year but the offensive woes are whats killing this team. I think unfortunately at the expense of a Haren 'W', if thats what it takes to get this team going, then maybe not getting Haren a win tonight might have been for the better. Or I could totally be blowing hot air out of my behind. ...
One good thing is that I think maybe having to score 7 runs was a very good thing. Guys were moving around the bases and had to score. Hopefully this gets some juices going. Our starting pitching has been excellent all year but the offensive woes are whats killing this team. I think unfortunately at the expense of a Haren 'W', if thats what it takes to get this team going, then maybe not getting Haren a win tonight might have been for the better. Or I could totally be blowing hot air out of my behind. ...
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Haren did not get a W, but he did NOT get a L. To him, it may have felt like it. How a pitcher's duel becomes a 7-5 game says plenty about the relief pitching.
relief pitching.
scXfreakX
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Haren did not get a W, but he did NOT get a L. To him, it may have felt like it. How a pitcher's duel becomes a 7-5 game says plenty about the
....or the lack of.
