As the Braves noted ...
"You can’t spell DISASTROUS without ASTRO!"
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As the Braves noted ...
"You can’t spell DISASTROUS without ASTRO!"
I tell you what, the first time I watched that play, it was a bit humorous, but just kinda made me remember that disaster of a play that the Reds made that allowed J.D. Martinez to get a t-ball inside the park home run.
But then I don't think anything can top the slapstick comedy of the pitcher/1b collision, followed by Matt Downs flying through the air. That is what clinched it, couldn't stop laughing there for a minute, had to watch it a few more times.
Might rank up there with the Gus Frerotte left handed interception in the Bungles worst archives.
Last week I went to a class A game and left marvelling at the infielders' inability to pick up a baseball. I particularly thought that Pirates prospect Alen Hanson would never stick at short.
I've changed my mind. He could play in Houston's infield right now.
:laugh: That uncoordinated, melodramatic dive of the third basemen makes that play for me. At least they're contributing humor at this point.
Basically there was a runner at first and a sac bunt in the top of the 11th. The Nats put down a sac bunt where the Astros' pitcher and first baseman collided trying to field it. Then the pitcher threw the ball down the right field line, scoring the runner from first. And then the throw to home plate from the right fielder was about 10 feet too high, which sent the runner all the way to third.
I have seen the Reds of yesteryear throw the ball all over the park like that before. The season gets long and the Astro's have been out of it since January.
On a side note MLB should be embarassed by the product the Astro's are sending out there right now.
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Too late... personally I love it when teams like this appear, it really belies how hard the game and the business really is and how lucky it can be as well. In short it makes the game human and I'm all for that.
Wasn't it against the Astros when a Red (Eric Davis, IIRC) bunted a ball and the pitcher threw it past first base down the right field line. The result was almost like a bunted inside-the-park-homer, but I think it was ruled a 3 base error. I think it happened in the Astrodome and maybe Joe Niekro was the pitcher, but perhaps I'm imagining part or all of this.
Anybody else remember that?
I saw Anderson Machado score on his own bunt in a game against the Braves.
On a related topic, there was NO ONE in the stands.
How many wrong/bad/erroneous things happened on that play - for both teams --i put the over under at 10.