He's my hero! Ever since he made that catch on June 25th in Oakland that just won me over. He earned my respect and made me a fan for life today. Here's how I called the second to last play before the final strike out.
Whoever was last AB Tracy(?) he hit the ball towards right field going towards the wall. Mohr leaps, jumps, whatever you want to call it and makes the catch.
Throws the ball back into the infield and Ransom catches and tags Zinter who was on 2nd and Hairston went back to 2nd for some unknown reason. Ransom tags out Hairston and then tags out Zinter for the double play.
That was a great moment because Kruk and Miller were saying something about how he should have gotten more than one person out. I called it pretty dead on when I saw the replay. That was sweet. And I even made a comment about how white men can jump. Because Mohr had to make a jump for that. He definitely made up for last night getting out with bases loaded.
This had to be a great game. Then I saw this on the forum:
"I'm going to be honest with you," Patricia said. "I don't want him to do it here at home. I'm sorry for the fans. I'm sorry for baseball. But that's the way it is. In this game, you have to have a lot of pride. And the way this year has gone for us, this would be the last thing that we need."
Pedrique ordered reliever Mike Koplove to walk Bonds, who entered Saturday's game with 698 career home runs, in the eighth inning of Friday night's D-Backs victory with two out and nobody on. At the time, the D-Backs were holding a 2-1 lead. The walk was the 198th of the season issued to Bonds, tying him for the all-time single-season record for walks, which he set in 2002. His 103 intentional walks this season easily shattered his 2002 record mark of 68.
Bonds set the all-time single-season mark when he drew a two-out walk from Stephen Randolph in the first inning Saturday night. The ball is not likely to be worth anything more than the price of a baseball.
The first player to hold the record ball was D-Backs catcher Juan Brito, who got the starting nod for Saturday's game. Pedrique, well aware of the rubber chickens that have been shaken by Giants fans whenever a pitcher intentionally walks Bonds, said that Brito has the best idea for signaling an intentional walk to the slugger.
Pedrique said Brito suggested he place a rubber chicken under his chest protector. When an intentional walk is ordered, Brito would simply grab the chicken and wave it.
This is how I responded when I first read that:
I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Hold a Chicken...and it has to be Walker too! Maybe the high ups can send some over to the other teams to show them that they're chicken. That way they'll have a chicken to use to amuse Bonds and to show they're chicken. That's something I'd like to see. Forget the catcher having a chicken unless it's one of those "wardrobe malfunction" types where you can just cover it back after. If that's the case the chicken should be used with every player they decided to walk.
I was hoping that Bonds could at least get something to hit besides the one that R.J. threw at him and the one that hit him. However, the funniest part was when Kruk said that if he (Pedrique) walks Bonds one more time he'd have to be escorted out the stadium with security. People paid good money to see him hit and they were disappointed big time. After Bonds's last at bat the crowd left in disappointment. I would have as well.
There was the man who was wearing a chicken cap on his head doing the chicken dance. The people booed from all over. Mostly Giants fans and if you paid more than face value to see Bonds hit and didn't you were one of them.
Tomorrow is another day and if Pedrique keeps it up I think he'll be out and someone else will take his place. In the mean time GO GIANTS!
I can't wait for the news to watch the highlight of the catch again!
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