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[catslash]

So here's a question it's never occurred to me to ask: if you are the starter in an away game and the home team is ahead going into the ninth and stays that way because your offense hates you so much it wishes you were dead, so you only pitch eight innings instead of nine, is that a complete game? (Okay, okay, I know the answer to that, but fucking hell.)

Because if it is, then boy did I ever watch the wrong CG today.

Because not only was David Wells not thrown off by his six-day suspension, but he came back from it to throw his first complete game of the season, a one-run seven-hit beauty. (Okay, technically he had another CG, but only because it was cut off by rain after six innings.) We won 5-1.

Yeah, I didn't watch that one.

I watched Jeremy Bonderman's brilliant CG instead, and if I was worried about him being thrown off by the extra day of rest provided by a rainout, I didn't need to be. Actually, it obviously did him good, it being late in the season and him being tenth in the league for innings pitched and all. This was his fourth CG for the season, with two runs on five hits and six Ks and one walk, and it was wonderful to see him look so good after how shaky he's been recently.

And it made me fucking want to puke and die. Because do you think he can get any kind of run support? Do you think the Tigers offense can get any further once they get men into scoring position several times? Are you fucking kidding me?

2-0. We lost TWO FUCKING ZERO BECAUSE OUR OFFENSE CANNOT GET ITS HEAD OUT OF ITS ASS AND PLATE THE GUYS WHO GET ON BASE.

Okay, yes, Jon Garland also threw a CG, and a pretty one at that, BUT. I mean, Jesus, it's not like we never had a chance; we only got four hits, but we got more men on base than that, and we had a man at third twice, and we even managed to draw a walk (whoa). We had opportunities to score, and we wasted every single one of them.

Hell, Bondo's last CG was also a two-run loss, although, gosh, at least we got ONE run that time.

Tigers offense, you suck. You suck and I hate you and not only do you not get cookies, but I will find a way to TAKE AWAY the cookies that you do not have. Do not put it past me. I will go to school and take math class after math class until I am super smart and I will invent a new kind of math that will allow me to leave you with the negative cookies that you deserve. Because I hate you. And you suck. Now go sit in a goddamn corner until you think you understand why you are being punished.

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[americanleaguer.livejournal.com]

I could not believe this game. I could not. Believe it.

When Carlos Pena was up in the ninth with two outs, I almost wanted to cry. He's gone cold even faster than he got hot.

Garland is good, very good. But he wasn't throwing a no-hitter, we had chances and just couldn't get it done. And there were some bad, bad breaks for us, like when Big Red's ball just died at the wall, and when Ozuna made that totally unfair snag to save a run.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I think I actually did cry a little at one point, and I didn't wait for the ninth to do it, either. I think I knew by the sixth that we were done.

Made. Me. Sick. My inner Bondo is none too happy, either. I try to overcome my own fury and stay with real!Bondo's acceptance of blame for losses, but how the fuck do you pitch better than ZERO? We had chances and we wasted them gloriously.

[americanleaguer.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what feed you were watching or anything, but as I'm back in Michigan I get the full FSN broadcast... at the end of the game, when Carlos was up, they had a shot of Bondo with a towel wrapped around his hand, biting it, looking like he was about to cry.

I dunno, man, it is hard to pitch better than Garland these days, but we just... the chances were there. It's not like he totally blanked us, except in the score, where, uh, he did. Sigh.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I was stuck with the Chicago feed, so I watched the entire game on mute rather than suffer with those morons. It was kind of fun, actually, since it makes you pay closer attention to the game and you're not swayed by whatever biases the announcers are trying to feed you.

Also, I'm rather glad I missed that shot, I think it would have broken me. Does add a bit of weight to the bitter Bondo post that's about to go up, though.

Shiiiiiit.

[owllover711.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world for the last two months. *hug*

Every time an Orioles pitcher does well our offense has failed to capitalize on it. Everyone says Miggy's trying too hard and B-Rob's lost his mojo at the plate, and to top it all off apparently Slammin' Sammy's a thing of the past. Feh. Anyway, I feel your pain, even though for us half of our nosedive's been about shaky starters who aren't striking enough batters out.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

*cries on your shoulder* It just hurts, dude. It hurts so bad to watch my favorite pitcher on the planet turn in an amazing game and end up with a loss. I mean, I firmly believe that the Win statistic is useless, but that doesn't mean that I don't want my boys to get wins, and that it doesn't pain me when they get undeserved losses.

I'm sorry that your team hates you, too.

[heckraiser87.livejournal.com]

I think the Tigers' offense is currently so bad that they should be giving the fans cookies just for watching. Freshly made, homebaked chocolate chip cookies. With pecans in them.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

And served by the players who sucked the most during that day's game. It's so hard to decide who has to bring me my cookies today, though.