Semi-ot: Tigers combine for no-hitter against Jays
Should have left Manning in. Even the best pitchers really only get a handful of opportunities to throw a no-hitter and Hinch took that away from him. Combined no-hitters are meaningless.
He was at 91 pitches in the seventh and just came back from an injury. They made the right call.
Wut? He can’t throw 120 pitches? Slacker…
I'll bet you're a delight at parties.
Quick: go find another random expression of positive vibes that you can piss on.
We're all breathless in anticipation.
I don't get invited to parties. The last one I went to was so lively a funeral broke out.
Leave my wife out of this.
And when he lost the no-no, overextended his arm and ended up with an injury, then what?
C’mon. Manning already was at 91 pitches in the 7th inning. There’s no way he’s going to pitch all nine innings. He had an arm injury last year, is just coming back from a foot injury, and in his MLB career he’s thrown more than 100 pitches (102 to be precise) once. Now you can quibble about whether MLB should be babying pitchers, but you just can’t expect someone to throw 120 pitches in a game without preparing him for that. Just ask Johan Santana who was never the same pitcher after throwing 130 pitches to get a “no-hitter” a decade ago. (Quotes around no-hitter because if there had been review, a ball call foul would have been ruled a hit.). [Looks like I took too long to make the same point that others made more succinctly).
Beats that combined one-hitter from Armando Galarraga and Jim Joyce…
See? More people remember that than the last combined no-hitter.
Jim Joyce runs red lights and tells the police it was green.
That is hysterical. If I remember correctly though Galarraga‘s reaction to it absolutely crushed Joyce in a truly remorseful fashion, and he was grateful for the grace that was shown to him and freely admitted it was a mistake. We should all be so remorseful when we make mistakes.
Galarraga handled that so well that it made Joyce feel even worse for his blatant mistake. Of course that didn't affect certain idiot fans who reacted as though they were personally injured. And I'm not talking about booing, which was perfectly reasonable. Some people went after his daughter on Facebook.
Still too soon. You can include Jerry Hairston Jr ruining Milt Wilcox's perfect game with just one out to go.
Of course, the difference being that Hairston was the opponent, was trying to ruin it, and did so with his athletic skill. It was a really tough break for Wilcox, but his opponent beat him cleanly. Whereas Jim Joyce ruined Galarraga's with his incredible incompetence at the absolute worst time.
Joyce's fuck-up is why I will never, ever object to instant replay, nor how much it might slow the game down. Had it existed then, Galarraga's name would be in Cooperstown where it belongs.
As an aside, when I was at Tigers Fantasy Camp in '04, Wilcox was the coach of my team. One of the other Tigers passed us the word not to ask Milt about the near-perfect game. It was still a sore subject.
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Miss American Pie!
drove my chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.
My Chevy took a sh*t.
Then the levy wasn't dry
Rod and Mario didn’t mention this one while it was happening, but for a different reason this time.
Neither Rod nor Mario broadcast Tigers games anymore
/whoosh
Thank you, Tigers, from this Yankee fan! The Yanks won so they pick up a game on the Jays.
#UnintendedConsequences
Thank you, Tigers, from this Red Sox fan! The Sox won so they pick up a game on the Jays.
Bless you boys. I was there Wednesday and they looked like the Bad News Bears against the A’s. Life really is all about timing.
As always, Go Tigers! Fuckers.
Awesome - the pitchers will remember this day! 40 years from now the grandkids will hear the exaggerated stories of this day!!
So great.
It was a coincidence of good pitching. A No-Hitter requires one pitcher and nine innings.