Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[smashedagain]

Not only that, but this year is now only the second in the modern MLB era with to no hitters in the same season, 2010 being the previous

Phillip Humber of the White Sox pitched a no hitter two months ago

How rare is that Tighty, overall?

Are there any MLB Games I could easily catch (Live) whilst over in Vegas?

Go and see a Las Vegas 51s game.

I guarantee you'll have a great time.

Gortcha Keith, thank you.

I hope you decide to return to Las Vegas for the Main, buit good to hear that common-sense prevails when you are not running as well as you might.

More than that, I hope you continue with that Diary of yours. It is a wonderful read, reminds me so much of Camel Ruminates, you write lovely crisp & clear stuff, well presented, simple, but eloquent. I'll comment on there as soon as time permits, but one or two entries were really well-pitched, I thought.

And some also hit the ball out of he park too

[Dino]

You realise Anna used to present an online football mag this is one example of dozens that she did.

[tikay]

The report I saw on that "Perfect Game", as most American sports writing seems to, blew conventional English phraseology out of the water. I rather like it actually, the more I read it, the more I want to see.

Did you know that the chap was a righty?

Not political I assume. He could equally have been a lefty, I suppose.  Or the winningmost. Driving his motorcar down the straightaway
"No-hitters"? Ten a penny, it seems.


Matt Cain has such good stuff that it seemed like it was only a matter of time until he put his first no-hitter under his belt. But the big righty did all our expectations one better on a memorable and cool  Wednesday night at AT&T Park, throwing a perfect game against the Houston Astros in a 10-0 win. It was the second perfect game thrown this season, the 22nd in history and incredibly only the first in the 128-year history of the Giants franchise.

Any perfect game fits the definition of dominant, but Cain's effort will allow him to enter a rarefied air among perfect game pitchers. His 14 strikeouts on the night gave him a game score of 101 as well as a share of the record for most strikeouts in a perfect game. The pitcher he tied for that record? Just a Los Angeles Dodger by the name of Sandy Koufax, who struck out 14 Chicago Cubs in 1965.

As is usually the case, Cain wouldn't have made history were it not for some great defense. Melky Cabrera started the heroics with a warning track grab of a Chris Snyder blast in the sixth inning, Gregor Blanco turned in the defensive play of the year after running down Jordan Schaefer's gap-seeking drive in the seventh (below) and Joaquin Arias gobbled up Jason Castro's tricky grounder to third for the 27th and final out.

We're still a few weeks away from the All-Star break and we've already seen five no-hitters this season. Cain joins fellow perfect game pitcher Philip Humber as well as Jered Weaver, Johan Santana and the six Seattle Mariners pitchers who combined for a no-hitter last Friday. The record for most no-hitters in a season is seven, which was reached in both 1990 and 1991.

[tikay]

You realise Anna used to present an online football mag this is one example of dozens that she did.

No, in fact I never knew that. Oh my, I can have some mischief with that, thanks!

She really is some nice kid though. She is a professional photographer in her day job.

Love the kid.

[Mohican]

Not sure if any of you noticed, but last night a chap - a Giant I believe - pitched a "perfect game" in Baseball.

I gather this is pretty rare. Not sure if there are other sports where something so rare happens? The report said it was "the 22nd perfect game" (I assumed in MLB), which, if true, given how much Baseball is played, must be quite something.

The photo is not from last night, but note the crowd all taking photos of the scorebaord.

"....I was there....." sort of thing I guess.

Must be almost worth a Tighty bell graph.

It is indeed a rare thing seeing as each team plays 162 games in the regular baseball season- See here for definition- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game

Is that Mohican from next door? Welcome aboard Carl, good to see you here!

Are you a Baseball freak?

Tis I from next door. Been loitering with no intent for a while. I follow the Boston Red Sox but I'm only a casual fan. I like watching it but don't get that much time to watch it. Tend to go on a bit Baseball games.

[Dino]

Well if you want to wind her up you tube has a few of these as well.

[tikay]

Well if you want to wind her up you tube has a few of these as well.

!

So much ammo there.......but I won't embarrass her with it, she's way too nice.

[Claw75]

were you in to speedway as a lad Tikay?  My late grandfather (died before I was born) was a speedway racer/rider (what's the correct terminology?) - no idea if he was well known or not.  I should make an effort to find out more about him. 

I most certainly was! Find out your Grandad's name, please.

It's "rider" not racer.

Barry Briggs was Billy Big Bollocks was I was following the sport, I believe.

I used to go & watch Speedway at White City, Hackney, Stamford Bridge, Coventry, Perry Barr, & Ipswich, where, later, I attended the annual World Stock-Car Championship every year. My Stock-Car heroes were Barry Lee (351), Duffy Collard & George Polley (BOOOOOOO!).

In those days, ALL Speedway bikes were JAP-powered. And all Speedway riders had their pick of the girls - "Spedway-rider" then was like Rock-star, or Street-Artist (= Tosser), today.

bumping a very old post from another thread, but these photos have just surfaced of my grandad in his speedway days.  He's second from the right in the team photo (Harringay 1947).  Pretty cool I reckon!

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[Mohican]

The report I saw on that "Perfect Game", as most American sports writing seems to, blew conventional English phraseology out of the water. I rather like it actually, the more I read it, the more I want to see.

Did you know that the chap was a righty?

Not political I assume. He could equally have been a lefty, I suppose.  Or the winningmost. Driving his motorcar down the straightaway
"No-hitters"? Ten a penny, it seems.


Matt Cain has such good stuff that it seemed like it was only a matter of time until he put his first no-hitter under his belt. But the big righty did all our expectations one better on a memorable and cool  Wednesday night at AT&T Park, throwing a perfect game against the Houston Astros in a 10-0 win. It was the second perfect game thrown this season, the 22nd in history and incredibly only the first in the 128-year history of the Giants franchise.

Any perfect game fits the definition of dominant, but Cain's effort will allow him to enter a rarefied air among perfect game pitchers. His 14 strikeouts on the night gave him a game score of 101 as well as a share of the record for most strikeouts in a perfect game. The pitcher he tied for that record? Just a Los Angeles Dodger by the name of Sandy Koufax, who struck out 14 Chicago Cubs in 1965.

As is usually the case, Cain wouldn't have made history were it not for some great defense. Melky Cabrera started the heroics with a warning track grab of a Chris Snyder blast in the sixth inning, Gregor Blanco turned in the defensive play of the year after running down Jordan Schaefer's gap-seeking drive in the seventh (below) and Joaquin Arias gobbled up Jason Castro's tricky grounder to third for the 27th and final out.

We're still a few weeks away from the All-Star break and we've already seen five no-hitters this season. Cain joins fellow perfect game pitcher Philip Humber as well as Jered Weaver, Johan Santana and the six Seattle Mariners pitchers who combined for a no-hitter last Friday. The record for most no-hitters in a season is seven, which was reached in both 1990 and 1991.

Here's the above in moving pictures- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsqZd1Zx3x0

[AndrewT]

LOL - the guy at 3rd base nearly fluffed it on the final play.

[Mohican]

LOL - the guy at 3rd base nearly fluffed it on the final play.

Nearly but produced an excellent throw to save the perfect game.

[Eso Kral]

A picture of our hero from last weekends deepstack at DTD in his papa smurf outfit!!

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Tikay's younger brother in the background also!!

[JaffaCake]

I used to like watching Last of the Summer Wine....

[TightEnd]

Someone should take him to Tie Rack too.

[JaffaCake]

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