Legendary Bay Area sports broadcaster Bill King passed away today, and I must admit, it bums me out. A great talent, I know him mostly as the radio voice of the Oakland Athletics, but he previously did play by play for the Oakland Raiders and the Golden State Warriors. He has one of the great radio voices, and listening to him call innings for the Athletics was one of the things that I enjoyed the most.
Bill, you’ll be missed.
You begin by leading 4-2 in the top of the ninth, and then bring in your reliever to get two quick outs:
– B. Lidge relieved D. Wheeler
– J. Rodriguez hit for H. Luna
– J. Rodriguez struck out swinging
– J. Mabry struck out swinging
Then, you let some speedy kid bang out a single to left, and then let him advance to second.
– D. Eckstein singled to left
– D. Eckstein to second on fielder’s indifference
Then it would be good to walk Edmonds so that you could bring up Pujols, and let him crack a game winning homer over the fence.
– J. Edmonds walked
– A. Pujols homered to deep left, J. Edmonds and D. Eckstein scored
– R. Sanders struck out looking3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
St. Louis 5, Houston 4
It goes back to St. Louis. If the Astros don’t make it to the Series, this will go down as one of the most amazing ninth innings in baseball history.