Okay, I haven’t posted anything about baseball lately, so I thought I’d remark about the oddest play I’ve heard of this week. No, it wasn’t Ichiro Suzuki’s inside-the-park homerun during the All Star game (although that was bitching), but rather occurred during tonight’s game between the Athletics and Twins.
Cuddyer triples off A’s middle reliever Kennedy with one out the bottom of the seventh. Kennedy then beans Morneau, giving batters at the corners with only one out. Calero comes in for relief in the bottom of the seventh. He tosses one pitch, gives up a hit, allows a run to score, and gets two outs.
How? Torii Hunter singles to left, Cuddyer scores, and then Stewart to Crosby catches Morneau out at third, and to Ellis gets Hunter out at second.
Nice.
Calero only threw the one pitch in the losing effort.
[tags]Oakland Athletics, Baseball[/tags]
Addendum: On this date in 2005, one of my favorite Athletics, Miguel Tejada, won the All Star MVP. Okay, technically, he was an Oriole, but we know he’s still green underneath. We miss ya, Miggy.