All-Star Game - 7-14-2009

[BitterDodgerFan]

so why did they give us a horrible angle on obama's pitch? was FOX instructed to not show where the pitch landed for some reason?

[ayebatter]

:^

After the extra innings games of late, he was being saved as a guy that could go 5/6 innings if need be.

I think the MVP should go to the home plate ump that gave Jeter the HBP in the 1st.

Zimmerman or sandoval not starting over wright cost the game as either easily makes the throw that he put in the dirt.

Singling out that one play is unfair. I could counter by saying starting Pujols at 1b cost the NL the game with his first inning error(0-3 at the plate as well). Or Ryan Braun taking his sweet time to retrieve Mauer's double was the downfall of the NL. Let's not forget Carl Crawford robbing Brad Hawpe. Plus, there was Justin Upton's "route" to Granderson's shot that turned a double into a triple. Which allowed Adam Jones to drive in the tying run with a sac fly off heath bell. Speaking of Bell, you could say he cost the NL the game by throwing Jones multiple high fastballs on 0-2 when a sac fly gives the AL the lead.

Nope, it was the Jeter non-HBP.

[GiantsFan14]

After the extra innings games of late, he was being saved as a guy that could go 5/6 innings if need be.

I think the MVP should go to the home plate ump that gave Jeter the HBP in the 1st.

Zimmerman or sandoval not starting over wright cost the game as either easily makes the throw that he put in the dirt.

Singling out that one play is unfair. I could counter by saying starting Pujols at 1b cost the NL the game with his first inning error(0-3 at the plate as well). Or Ryan Braun taking his sweet time to retrieve Mauer's double was the downfall of the NL. Let's not forget Carl Crawford robbing Brad Hawpe. Plus, there was Justin Upton's "route" to Granderson's shot that turned a double into a triple. Which allowed Adam Jones to drive in the tying run with a sac fly off heath bell. Speaking of Bell, you could say he cost the NL the game by throwing Jones multiple high fastballs on 0-2 when a sac fly gives the AL the lead.

Yes but pujols actually deserved to be the starting 1b as he's the best player in baseball, wright did not.

[AussieDodger]

So the NL is still teh suxor?

Alright

[Pogotheostrich]

1 run games. The NL is really underperforming their Pythagorean record.

[AussieDodger]

1 run games. The NL is really underperforming their Pythagorean record.

How unlucky. If only Halladay was starting for them

[BitterDodgerFan]

so lince and pujols lose it for NL. good job

[StlSluggers]

so why did they give us a horrible angle on obama's pitch? was FOX instructed to not show where the pitch landed for some reason?

I was wondering that, too. That was an awful, awful camera angle.

[StlSluggers]

wakefield makes it there after so many years and you can't give a guy an inning; wow ....

Maddon announced in advance that Wakefield would only play in extra innings:

ST. LOUIS -- Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon, who is running the American League team in tonight's All-Star Game here, said Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers and Josh Beckett and Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox will pitch tonight only if the game goes extra innings.

Verlander had pitched Sunday and said he was available to pitch one inning if needed.

Maddon added that Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees is his closer. "He's still pitching at a very high level," Maddon said. "I thought it was right."

[GiantsFan14]

so lince and pujols lose it for NL. good job

Except tim didn't lose it for the NL, his defense which forced him to get 4 groundballs to finally get out of the inning (three of which were double play balls) lost it for the NL. That and billingsly