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Runs Thread 9/6: Braves at Pirates

Let's go. We're winning this game.

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And now the rain fade has killed my TV. Crappy.

Lets get some runs

I can has runs thread?

dang

didn’t know meek had been so solid this season. let’s get to him

HITS HITS HITS

RUNZ RUNZ RUNZ

POINTS POINTS POINTS

RUNZ POINTS RUNZ POINTS RUNZ POINTS
lets get some runs boys

we’ve got alot of pinch hitters

RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS

Hitting the jackpot = two of the emptiest singles ever.

how bout

a b-day bomb mr lee.

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS>

Did he really just call that strike one?

Well now they have an all-star pitcher in the game

So we’ll probably start scoring the runs!!

nah

he just powered up….

cue the walk/ pinch runner

The bat hitting the ball has a nice sound here.
Leadoff walk

is nice.

hits..

then more hits..
then runs..
then win..

GUYS!

someone on the team playing the phillies just took a dump! we’re saved!

I get it

while the fans throw up in the stands, the players take a dump on the field

lead off walks

great sign for us

can we please take advantage of these walks...

its the damn pirates come on…

Come on MattyD

for the love of Heyward, take some pitches. Stop swinging at everything.

…as he swings at ball 2.

which would’ve been called for a strike

Please be patient Matty

( I may be talking to myself on that one)

diaz, keep it up
load them up for Mac please
I dont know

what my record is exactly, but when I enter a runs thread only we are pretty damn good.

Ah, just noticed this:

We really shouldn’t pinch hit Freeman until we absolutely have to.

Why? Because then we can’t pinch run for DLee since Glaus is our only option at 1st.

Is DLee that slow? I know he is not as fast as he used to, but he should still be slightly above average, right?

He’s average at best with his bad back, and Diory is certainly faster.

1 out, Diaz at first
...Diaz grounds out on ball 3.

At least it wasn’t a vidro.

C’mon Alex.

1st pitch swinging?

Ugh.

its happening far too often.

happens all the time late and on the road

that’s the biggest difference home/road, they have ZERO patience on the road. at home they have a minimal amount

cmon...this is pathetic...do we not realize the pirate suckÇ
Gonzo tried to tie it up with that swing
frack...

im done…. at least the tomorrow we will be in first place still……

by half a game possibly
dont come back

when we win

We need an A-bomb from A Gon
-1

too close to a Yankees reference

I know

But they win so maybe it’ll help

I just remember we're playing THE G.D. PIRATES!!

WTF IS GOING ON WITH THIS TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF IS GOING ON WITH THIS TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Road game

I know....

I can understand it with most opponents….but the Pirates/? Really??? We have hit rock bottom

Gonzo is swinging at bat pitches
what an attrocious at bat he has working

Phillies are trying to come back, now 7-1 in the bottom of the ninth.

FML

Gonzo never has good ABs late in the game.

........

Oh goodness.

Except for when he has

There’s a reason I like my Psychology class so much.

90% of the team falls into this

they get too aggressive. even more so on the road.

60% of the time

it works every time

Swing bunt single for Gonz

well that would have been cool an inning earlier

wow...

we have astro’d them to death today…

Where was that last inning. Blergh.

RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS

lady luck smiled on us there…
mac is up now!

Yea but she slapped us in the face

when Martin was up

that's what happens when you wait for 2 outs to start any rally
usually the result...

Save us Mac!!

Alex swinging like he’s Vlad

we need some bmac ma-JACK
please mac......... please.....

for the love of your hot woman.

I love all the Negative Nancies on here.

Relax.

who else doesn't want a walk here?

The problem with pinch-hitting McCann here is that they can just walk him.

ugh why swing at that?

That was ball 3...
Swinging at ball 3

we’re trying to swing ourselves out of the inning.

they do what they want

2nd and 3rd with 2 out now
whew, and boo

We need you Nate.

WHOS GONNA COME THROUGH FOR THE BRAVES?

It's OK...got the two runners over.

Aaaand this game rests on Nate McLouth. Wonderful.

not what i'm looking for

but at least we have runners in scoring position

redemption time for Nate

brooksy or hinske on deck?
please be brooksy if we load the bases
cmon nate...

redemption time for all your failures earlier in the year

bring it back home buddy
almost had a big sackful of win yesterday.
Nate PLEASE be patient
2nd and 3rd, 2 outs

CMON NATE!!

good…mclouth is up…can’t we pinch hit with brooks and let ankiel take over defensively?

pointless

bases aren’t loaded

Come on Nate

Please do something positive for us!

Please Nate I will forgive all
arghh....

i just hope that by the end of the month, this whole season had not been just a tease…….

NASTY NATE!

Come on kid. Be the man and step up.

Slow clap for McLouth
you wanna start tomorrow nate...

that ain’t gonna do it

I hate all of our players today
UGHHHHHH

WHY CAN’T WE HIT WITH RISP

nate u could win alotta ppl back right now

This is complete shit.

NASTY NATE FUCKS UP AGAIN
Whatever

fuck this.

We just wanted to pad that "wins in the last at-bat" statistic, right?
THE F"IN PIRATES?!?!?!?

We’ll have Brooks (or someone else), Infante, and J-Hey in the 9th.

Sounds like win.

Except Brooks can’t bat without the bases loaded.

Who's the Pirates closer?

Joel Hanrahan, I think.

uhhhhhhhhhh

uhhhhhhhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhh, mike gonzalez? no… matt capps? no… uhhhhhhhh tyler yates? idk

octavio do… mike go… who the f knows

Chan Ho Park maybe?

what a shock

braves fail again

Who’s their closer?

it doesnt matter.....

he would be lights out…..

Damnit Nate

…That’s all I have to add.

this is fucking pathetic… we are not going to win a game in the playoffs and even we might miss the goddamn playoffs!!

ZOMG!!

DFA THE WHOLE TEAM!!!

Our playoff percentage is still huge, as even if we lose the division, we are effectively 3 games up in the Wild Card right now, with a lot of the Wild Card competitors having to play each other in the last few weeks of the season.

In addition, we’ll play at least one game at home in the postseason, so we’re probably assured of winning at least one game.

Nate McClouth should retire

Today, after the game hold a press conference announcing that you are the biggest P.O.S in the game, and you will never play again

that's...

a bit of an overreaction

Ruiz kills the rally, 2 down in the 9th, 7-1 Fish.

But he didn’t hit a HR…

so...

they lead will be just 1/2 game tomorrow

You’re assuming Philly wins their other game today.

they will...

They just lost 7-1 and you’re making the bold statement that they’re GOING TO WIN this next game?

PITTSBURGH.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for fucks sake……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, the Pittsburgh Pirates are a MAJOR LEAGUE TEAM.

They are going to win a few games, quit acting like its a auto-win. Fuck. I want them to win as bad as anyone else but damn.

Yes, but a playoff caliber team should be able to score more than 1 run of Brian Burres

Whos ERA coming into the game sat just above 6.

10 left on today so far and 25 in the last three....

Too many holes in the lineup. Too many backups and AAAA guys in our lineups.

Moylans up to give them a solid victory

Fish win game 1. Now go for 2

would be nice to be up 1 1/2 games instead of just 1/2 a game tomorrow
This.

Another 7-1 victory would be nice.

YAY!

the lead is still safe!

Man

this is not a good game to come back to. I’m not even sure this is the Pirates we’re playint

why the braves choose to become a lobster against Pirates?

0-6 RISP
10 LOBs
2 times bases loaded

its been quite a trend lately.

we are the unclutch.

the Pirates?

who haven’t they done it against?

It’s official, Marlins take the first game of their Philly doubleheader.

Lead is temporarily at 1.5 games.

This has been INN.

embrace this moment...

this is the largestt lead we will see this month…..

Of course we finally get perfect performances from Farnsworth and Moylan when the offense totally sucks.

Moylan looked good there. Let’s go offense!

Moylan looked pretty damn good there. Let’s go offense!

FTFY

Moylan beasted.....
9th inning rally in 3, 2, 1.....
...

for the Aussie.

Now lets get some Runs.

Who thinks we're going to win?
deep really really deep in my gut

i see a win…. but very deep….

down in your cockles?
Braves have 30+

comeback wins. We got this covered.

I actually think its 23

ok I failed

but still, you know what i mean…

23 last AB wins

Different from come from behind wins

Due Up in the 9th

Pitcher Spot
Infante
Heyward

OT Mannys been sick for the ChiSox
playing for a contract
ok, time to win
brooksy will play his usual role.
or the red hot ski...........
hooray for opposite day!
and by opposite day you mean opposite field HR!

That pitch could not have been any more of a strike…

leadoff walk! leadoff walk!
Man he is throwing gas!
the braves need

we needed that to be fair
might've been fielded then

If Hanrahan challenges Heyward, that ball could go a long way, but we need someone else on to even make that relevant.

or he'll pound it into the ground
Hinske out

shocking…..

yay for more GBs to 2nd
I think we have lost
i think the batting champ is up

with heyward on deck

with ROY on deck, you mean….

ah wait..

Phillies have a double header.. two losses please.

1 down 2 to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when'd it become the 9th!

boooooooooo

Come on Omar- basehit

hey at least

we got another PA for infante

Umm...so?
Exactly.

The PAs don’t matter if they’re outs.

who cares?

we are losing to the PIRATES

with no hit, it's the same as adding one to the end

about as useful for the team too

sheesh

ill never be optimistic again

Shouldnt of played the Bucs on Labor day..

Fail. Stop hitting it to Walker.

Omar says:

Who wants a batting title!!!

our ability to hit weak groundballs is uncanny

Only Jason Heyward

Can hit a 3-run homer with nobody on

even mac could score on his hr.
Hinske 20 for his last 102 dating back to July 2
20 for 107, sorry
Oh thats better than lol

but he’s a good luck charm

ahhh its my birthdays fault

Of course it is… GTFO

we'll probably load the bases now

and fail

Heyward walk, Prado HR to tie it.....we win in extras.
single*

Thanks for the minor correction. Now it’s Prado HR time….

An Oracle, I am not... :(
Heyward single
walk, walk, weak ground out.

REDEEM YOURSELF, PRADO.

Come on Martin!!!

Let’s go Prado.

Two-out lightning KAPOW

BALL GAME!!!!

GO BRAVESSSSSS

what a shitty fucking day
WTF

what a terrible game

M-m-m-m-m-monster fail.

See you tomorrow, folks.

Hope the Phillies drop another one to those damn Fish.

just fucking pathetic

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This team will not win a WS or make the playoffs the way they are playing

OMFG

I am just livid right now

11 LOB

5 by Prado

What time does the Marlins game start? 7?

What an absolutely pathetic loss.

This team doesn’t deserve to make it to the playoffs. They’d just be a warmup for the NLCS for whoever they faced.

our starting pitching is so damn sporadic, our defense is wholly as hell and our bats are the anti-clutch.

recipe for disaster.

We’ll get ’em tomorrow. Mark my words

we do have huddy going for us

he is the stopper

I have a feeling

that we turn things around tomorrow. It’s gonna be one of those talks from Bobby like the one he gave to Mike Stanton

I agree

We can only hope that this is one of those wake up call games

shit-fucking-sandwich

1 run against the Pirates…. really??? the worst pitching staff in the NL held us to 1 run… brutal

did we just lose to the worst team in baseball?

wtf, hope we win tomorrow

We lost to one of the worst teams in the history of baseball.
we lost is the right way to put it too

they certainly didn’t beat us.

well....

1 game lead….

If we don't win this series, we have SERIOUS issues.
this team is equally awesome

at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as they are coming back when they should lose.

I am fucking pissed, that was an absolutely awful game to watch….THE PIRATES?!?!?! REALLY?!

top of the order 2-13

not gonna get it done

remember when they used to hit....??

that was a nice week ago…..

Leave Heyward out he did his part.
This is pathetic.

To the worst team in baseball, against Brian Burres, when we’re trying to make the playoffs. Fuck.

San Diego has lost 10 in a row. It could be worse

We’ve already had our 9 game losing streak for the year. It’s even.

I know right?

Not like they don’t have any motivation to win.

Not being rude but

I think you need to tone your language down a bit. By you being one of the authors you should know bette.

when your team

is in a pennant race and is playing like the Pirates have been playing the last 17 years you want you should be very frustrated

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating but

Cursing and all the other negative comments by other poster aren’t going to make the team play any better.

I'm sorry if I offended anyone when I said "f***" over the internet
Not about being offended but

When other posters see one of the authors making comments like yours that leads to them posting stuff like that and getting banned.

Braves have to go 21-3 the rest of the year to win 100 games. Can they do it ?
we will not win 90 games

ok well u can leave and not come back, thanks

call me when the Braves win the WS
What do you think CM?

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH
just imagine a team with this pitching staff. and we have to face their 24 times during a year

can someone help me?

Olsen
Moyer
Wolf
Narverson
Kyle kendrics
Andrew Miller
Brian Burres
that 2 lefties from Rockies

I honestly just don't know how we're going to beat a team like the Yankees on the road in the World Series.We would have to win every game at home just to have a chance at beating them.
That 2nd inning spelled doom today

1 run out of a bases loaded, no out situation

we had the bases loaded twice

and runners at 2nd and 3rd once as well. Only 1 run out of those 6 RISP scores, that’s why we lost

Can someone tell me how THIS braves team is any better than the Braves teams from 2000-2005 that won 90+ every year and lost in the 1st round every year ?
what is the worst thing in baseball for a team?

lose to Pirates?

Being the Pirates

might be worse.

Being the Mets

is even worse.

today braves looks like "My Entire Team Sucks"
what happened to the bench heyward post?

we need it back to make heyward to get a lot hits again

hahaha

up and down and up and down and up and down….

This has to be one of the most confusing contenting team I have ever seen. I still think we will right the ship and take this series……

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