Baseball: pennant night

tonight there are a lot of big games going on Phillies/braves mets/nats marlins/astros angels lost mariners 10-9 yanks/rays A's/indians
these are picture perfect match ups

Yes. The Yankees and D-Rays is a perfect match-up. That rivalry is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Nats winning 5-3 in the 9th

NEW YORK -- Vinny Castilla's RBI single in the top of the 10th inning helped the Nationals defeat the Mets, 6-5, in front of 21,441 fans at Shea Stadium on Thursday afternoon to sweep the three-game series.

With a runner on third base, two outs and Roberto Hernandez on the mound, Castilla singled to right field to drive in Nick Johnson to give the Nationals the one-run lead.

The winning pitcher was Jason Bergmann, while Hernandez took the loss and Gary Majewski picked up his first career save.

The Nationals are now 2 1/2 games behind the Phillies and Marlins in the Wild Card race.

In the early going, the Nationals gave starter Livan Hernandez a 3-0 lead in the first inning off starter Jae Seo. Preston Wilson drove in two runs with a single to right, while Castilla drove in the third run of the game with a sacrifice fly that scored Wilson.

The Mets made it a two-run game in the bottom of the inning, when Jose Reyes took Hernandez's 1-0 pitch and hit the ball over the right fence.

The Nationals made it a 4-1 game when Cristian Guzman homered over the right-center-field fence off Seo.

But the Mets took the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Mets had the bases loaded with two outs, when Cliff Floyd took a 3-2 pitch and hit a line drive over the right-field wall for his fifth career grand slam that gave the Mets a 5-4 lead.

Livan Hernandez ended up pitching six-plus innings and gave up five runs on nine hits. He struck one batter and walked another.

The Nationals were able to tie the score off Braden Looper in the top of the ninth. With runners on first and third and one out, Brad Wilkerson hit a perfect double-play ball to Kaz Matsui. But the ball went under Matsui's glove and Kenny Kelley scored on the play to tie the score at 5.

was this today?

The Nats were up by 4 in the 9th with two outs and cordero gave up a grand slam to khalil greene to tie it....then the nats lost in the 12th...it was a heart breaker

Originally posted by ReginaldMartinezJackson
Yes. The Yankees and D-Rays is a perfect match-up. That rivalry is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

yanks/red sox? Maybe it was sarcasm lol, either way I am missing something on this one

do u think the indians will overtake the white sox

I have a bizzare feeling they will. Then Ozzie Guillen will murder someone. This would be very similer to the 1978 playoff run between New York and Boston

Only the White Sox had a bigger lead, 15 games compared to 14

Lastly, the Indians play 6 more games againt the sox, giving them a chance to overtake them. It could turn into a "Chicago Masacre" if you know what I mean.

Jeff Brantly on baseball tonight was like positive that the Indians would win the central.