Sunday Night Baseball

[waltjp]

Got any game details for those of us not watching?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by waltjp

Got any game details for those of us not watching?

Jim Wolf tossed the Cubs pitcher for what was clearly an intentional HBP on Edgar Renteria of the Braves. You can tell by the replay that the pitch went exactly where the pitcher aimed (on 0-2). Piniella of course thinks there was no intent, that the pitcher was just trying to pitch inside. Yeah, and I'm the King of France.

Now Joe Moron is interviewing Piniella, and confirming what I just said about him (and what Tee said about Morgan).

Renteria should have been run by Jim Joyce for intentionally slugging the Cubs' second baseman when he stole second base, and popped up late and applied a forearm shiver to the rook.

For more details, TURN ON THE GAME!

[jimpiano]

Now Joe Moron is interviewing Piniella, and confirming what I just said about him (and what Tee said about Morgan).


What exactly did Morgan ask Piniella that seemed to confuse you?

[Welpe]

Any idea why Lilly threw at Renteria?

[SanDiegoSteve]

piano: I wasn't confused about anything.

Welpe: Because the Braves were throwing at the Cubs the night before, including nailing Soriano on the first pitch of the game.

[Welpe]

Thanks Steve, that would do it!

So it seems Sweet Lou was complaining that there weren't any warnings given before the game.

[jimpiano]

Pretty nice interview with Smoltz.

[gsf23]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Any idea why Lilly threw at Renteria?

On Friday, Soriano hit three homeruns against the Braves. On Saturday on the first pitch of the game to Soriano, he was hit in the shoulder, clearly it was as intentional as Lilly’s was to Renteria, but Hudson wasn’t ejected. Later in the game, Isturiz for the Cubs had a pitch thrown behind him, and Gallagher for the Cubs was hit. Again, no ejections.

Before Sunday’s game, no warnings were issued and nothing was addressed in the pre-game about retaliation. It seemed to me that Wolf figured this was going to happen and instead of doing something to prevent it said I’ll just wait for it to happen and then toss the guys. Pretty crappy way of handling it I think.

Then after he was hit, Renteria steals second on the next pitch, does a very late pop-up slide and delivers a forearm to the face of the Cubs Fontenot who was covering on the play and again, nothing was done. The Braves basically got four shots at Cubs players with no repercussions, while the Cubs retaliated once and got a player ejected.

[midtnblu]

Right on g,

I attended Fri and Sat games of this series.

Soriano went deep 3 times and not once did he "show up" the Braves.

Bush league crap by the Braves. Ridiculous "game management" by this umpiring crew. MLB needs to review this one, especially the forearm by Renteria. Plus, replays showed he was out at 2nd.

It was reported that Renteria was removed because of the HBP and X-Rays...but I'll bet Cox took him out of this one to prevent injury as this was the last series between these two teams this year.