October 17, 2005
Bottom of the Ninth
Lidge is on to close the game for the Astros. He faces John Rodriguez.
Update: Rodriguez strikes out.
Update: Mabry strikes out. It's up to Eckstein!
Update: David does it. He singles through the hole to keep the Cardinals hopes alive. Jim Edmonds up.
Update: Eckstein moves up to second, removing the force.
Update: Edmonds gets out of the way of a pitch! He has to take one for the team there!
Update: Edmonds walks. Pujols is up!
Update: Pujols swings at the first pitch, strike one.
Update: Pujols homers! He saved the best for last! What a shot! It was up on the train tracks! The Cardinals lead 5-4 and are still alive in the post season!
Update: Reggie Sanders strikes out. Can Houston come back again? They did it against the Braves. Can history repeat?
It is an absolute pleasure to watch lidge pitch. That slider is one of the most unhittalbe pitches I've ever seen.
As a white sox fan, I want to see this series go longer.
well, the hanging slider over the middle of the plate, for the record, is NOT unhittable.
Hey, I just caught that ball, it crashed through my window.
WOW.
As soon as Pujols came up, I immediately went, "Oh boy, there's only one thing that could possible happen right now..."
Amazing to not pitch around the best hitter in the game. Hit the corners, and then walk him if need be.
As soon as he swung I said "oh insert cuss word," everybody knew it was gone.
Screw everyone who blathers on about 'smallball' and chides the three-run HR.
God bless the three-run HR!
You gotta love the baseball gods. They reward the White Sox yesterday after all these years and break the Astros hearts tonight. I have to wonder if Houston is done, that was a pretty big blow.
I think it's safe to say Pujols is the player of the game here.
i hope lance berkman finds a good charity to give his chevrolet player of the game award to. maybe it can be train repair.
Jeremy: No way Houston's done. They have Roy Oswalt and Roger Clemens on deck. It's hard to bet against that. Although why Lidge didn't pitch to Edmonds and did pitch to Pujols is beyond me. They'll rebound.
Don't want the 'Stros to win, but that was way harsh.
No idiotic Crawford boxes in Busch. The Astros don't win any of these games without their jam-shot HRs.
That ball was simply an immense blast. Can anyone remember a homer that was that well struck which was also an ultra dramatic game changing playoff homerun? That one tops all I have ever seen for its majesty. Note I am not a Cardinals fan nor an Astros hater (Red Sox for me). I was just truly amazed as a baseball fan.
Yeah, the Astros still have an excellent chance (especially with Oswalt), but they'll have to do it the real way, not via the cheap 300 ft home run to the left porch they seem to specialize in at Minute Maid.
315 foot homeruns - tell it to the Yankees.
My heart was broken, but then I thought, Man the Astros never do anything the EASY way. This whole season has exemplified that. Now we go to their house and let Oswalt "suck the life" out of their stadium. I still Beelieve!
To all posters who call the "Crawford boxes" the cheap homers, I say you play the hand you are dealt, and the Cards have the same "cheap" opportunity. Astros pitching just doesn't make it easy for them. Just my humble opinion.
i'm **** tired of hearing all the complaints about the crawford boxes.
they are there for the cards, too
and we lost TWO games on homers into the crawford boxes to jack freaking wilson.
so ida wanna hear it