Tom Glavine pitched 7 scoreless innings, and Carlos Beltran provided all the offense New York needed as the Mets shutout the Cardinals in game one of the NLCS, 2-0. Glavine was spectacular, allowing just 4 hits on the evening. Jeff Weaver wasn't too shabby either for St. Louis, allowing just 2 runs on 4 hits over 5 2/3 innings. However, Weaver made one critical mistake, and Beltran made him pay by driving a two-run shot off the scoreboard in rightfield. Guillermo Mota and Billy Wagner each pitched scoreless and hitless innings to help New York go up 1-0 in the best-of-seven series.
Game Notes and Quotes
Q. Can you talk specifically about your game plan with Albert tonight?
TOM GLAVINE: Well, the first part I executed real well, which is facing him with nobody on base. That was the first part. But you know, when he's up there, it's just a situation where you have to -- if you're going to try and get him out, you have to be aggressive and you have to try to mix your speeds and mix your locations. He's a great hitter -- to say he's a great hitter is an understatement and he's the best hitter in baseball right now and he's the guy you don't want to beat you and you can't control that all the time. But when he's in the box and you have to face him, you have to face him like you do every other day, you have to be aggressive and attack him. And you can't go in the same speed and same location very often because if you do, he's going to catch you and make you pay for it.
Q. Just talk about the pitch, and also, what's the feeling of hitting a home run?
CARLOS BELTRAN: My first at-bat he was throwing me a lot of fastballs outside and inside and I was seeing the ball pretty good. I was about to tell Carlos, Carlos, I feel pretty good today at the plate. He said, "Just keep it simple, if you see the ball, hit the ball." My third at-bat, I just went up there, and he threw me a pitch in the middle of the plate and I was able to hit it and as soon as I hit it, I knew it was going to be out of the ballpark and it was going to give us the lead and I was very happy about it, because Tommy was pitching a great ballgame.
Q. Can you talk about both starting pitchers tonight?
TONY LaRUSSA: Well, it pains me that -- no way in hell, to suggest Jeff's name for tomorrow -- no way to suggest that he's a losing pitcher. He was equally as good, two outs, nobody on, two-run out like that, we can't break through offensively. Jeff was outstanding. So was Glavine. We hit too many balls in the air. I mean, it's tough to win when you do that.
Q. Mo instead of Heilman tonight was that a hunch?
WILLIE RANDOLPH: No, just trying to win the ballgame. He was warm, ready to go. I trust him. When you get into the playoffs, you're not thinking about situations, you're trying to win the ballgame. He was loose and he did the job.
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Thursday, October 12
NLCS Game 1 Recap - St. Louis at New York
by
Joe Hamrahi
on Thu 12 Oct 2006 10:48 PM EDT
ALCS Game 2 Recap - Detroit at Oakland
by
Joe Hamrahi
on Thu 12 Oct 2006 12:41 AM EDT
There was no power outage this evening in Oakland as the A's and Tigers combined to hit 5 home runs in a slugfest that went down to the wire. The A's jumped out to a 3-1 advantage before the Tigers scored 4 in the 4th to take the lead for good. Craig Monroe had 2 hits, scored 2 runs, and drove in 2, but it was Alexis Gomez who came through with a homer and 4 RBI in his first playoff start. Milton Bradley had 4 hits, homered twice, and drove in 4 for the A's, but that wasn't enough as Esteban Loaiza was roughed up for 7 runs on 9 hits over 6 innings. Justin Verlander wasn't much better for the Tigers, but the bullpen hung on and Detroit defeated Oakland, 8-5, to take a 2 games to none lead in the best of seven series. Frank Thomas and Nick Swisher were held hitless for Oakland, going a combined 0-for-8 with 6 strikeouts. The two teams travel to Detroit for game 3 on Friday night.
Game Notes
Losing a Member of Our Family
by
Joe Hamrahi
on Thu 12 Oct 2006 12:17 AM EDT
It was around 3:00 PM today when word started spreading around my office that an aircraft had hit a high rise apartment building on the Upper East Side. Many of us received CNN email alerts and others heard details from friends and colleagues in the vicinity of the crash. In the post 9/11 era, word of an aircraft hitting a building in New York City rings of one thing and one thing only, terrorism. People immediately rushed to radios and televisions to see if any more details were known. Interestingly enough, in a city inundated with media, it took an awful long time to get any real information about what had happened.
But once the pictures started coming in, we all knew this wasn't the work of a terrorist. The fire was confined to about 3 apartments in the building, and the scale of damage was minimal. I guess once you see the destruction of the World Trade Center, you get a sense of what may or may not be a terrorist act. Scary and sad, I know. Nobody was sure whether the aircraft was a plane or a helicopter, but we knew this was some sort of accident. As terrible as this may sound, and despite the fact that we knew that people were hurt or killed, there was some relief in knowing this was not 9/11 Part II. I immediately called home to let Christie (my wife) know that everything was alright in New York. I told her that if she hears about a plane hitting a building, it was just an accident. The fire looks to be under control and casualties appear to minimal. Once my colleagues realized that suicidal pilots weren't targeting New York again, they quickly turned their attention to the location of the accident. There are about 70 people in my office located on 23rd Street in midtown Manhattan. About 20 of those people live in the vicinity of the crash. Unfortunately, it took a while, again, for us to learn that the building on fire was located at 72nd and York. People were naturally concerned that maybe it was their home that was hit. Luckily, as it turned out, none of our staff was affected except for a few minor traveling delays here and there. Then the eerie news struck. My brother sent me an email that ESPN News was reporting that the plane was registered to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. I thought it might be some kind of cruel joke or tip someone passed along. I mean, what are the odds that a single engine plane traveling through some of the busiest airspace in the world could crash into a NYC building AND belong to a pitcher on the Yankees? It was inconceivable. But then more details started coming in. CBS radio, WFAN, News4 NY...they were all reporting the same thing. I suddenly became numb. Word soon circulated that Lidle's passport was found on the ground among the debris at the site of the accident. I just sat still in a daze. There was nothing I could possibly say or do. Over the past few years, the BDD community and professional baseball have become extensions of my own family. It may sound overly sentimental, but it's true. From the conversations with our members to the discussions with general managers, baseball is not just a sport or hobby to me anymore, it's an integral part of my life. I've formed relationships I'd never dreamed were possible and discovered a side of myself I never knew I had. I look up to established journalists and baseball executives as my mentors now and share what I've learned with others who are interested. My kids get a kick out of the fact that I talk to professional athletes. I get a kick out of the fact that some major league players treat me like their dad (One day I'll tell the funny story about Adam Dunn and Austin Kearns!). The bottom line is that BDD, baseball, players, managers, executives, scouts, media relations, and everyone else associated with the game are MY people now...my family if you will. Looking back on today's events, I guess it's no surprise then that the death of Cory Lidle really upset me. Cory Lidle was not just a baseball player. He was a person, a husband, a father. I wasn't sad that I'd never see him pitch again. I was sad because we lost a member of our "family." Tonight, the thoughts of the entire baseball community are with the Lidle family and the family of the flight instructor flying with Cory...and rightfully so. |
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