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Saturday loveliness
30 July 2005
Detroit 5, Oakland 9 at McAfee Coliseum
Winning pitcher – Barry Zito (10-8)
Losing pitcher – Nate Robertson (5-9)
SV – Jay WitasickJr. (1)
Detroit Runs: 5, Hits: 10, Errors 0
Oakland Runs: 9, Hits: 13, Errors 0
HR: DET: C. Guillen (4) V. Wilson (1)
HR: OAK: S. Hatteberg (5) J. Payton (9)
Oakland Record:(57-46)
No A’s on tv again for us. Bah!
Friday goodness
29 July 2005 Detroit 4, Oakland 8 at McAfee Coliseum
Winning pitcher – Rich Harden (9-4)
Losing pitcher – Sean Douglass (3-1)
Detroit Runs: 4, Hits: 15, Errors 0
Oakland Runs: 8, Hits: 8, Errors 0
HR: DET: OAK: M. Ellis (3)
Oakland Record:(56-46)
Ten games over .500. Wowsers. Sometimes I can’t believe the turnaround the A’s have made. It’s almost too much to relish. And then I think to myself, hey, these are the freakin’ A’s! And in baseball, anything can happen. 😉
The game wasn’t on tv for us (should I just stop harping about that?), so I tuned into the Cardinals/Dodgers game. Disappointing! Somewhere in the sixth inning, I realized (after doing my nails) that I should start that Harry Potter book.
Day game delight
27 July 2005 Cleveland 4, Oakland 5 at McAfee Coliseum
Winning pitcher – Huston Street (4-1)
Losing pitcher – David Riske (2-3)
Cleveland Runs: 4, Hits: 14, Errors 0
Oakland Runs: 5, Hits: 14, Errors 0
HR: CLE: A. Boone (10)
HR: OAK: B. Kielty (7)
Oakland Record:(55-46)
Sounds like they had a big crowd at the Coliseum today for the game. And they won! 😀 I “watched” this game on my Treo (you know, kept hitting “refresh” so that the page would show me the latest). Then I got sucked in by a couple of People magazines in the dentist’s office and didn’t realize the A’s won until I got my Yahoo alert. 😆
(A’s Photo)
Mostly I think I would have liked to get a root beer float from one of the A’s players. Yah!
Snapped streak
26 July 2005
Cleveland 2, Oakland 0 at McAfee Coliseum
Winning pitcher – Jake Westbrook (8-12)
Losing pitcher – Joe Blanton (5-9)
SV – Bob Wickman (25)
Cleveland Runs: 2, Hits: 8, Errors 1
Oakland Runs: 0, Hits: 4, Errors 0
HR: CLE: G. Sizemore (10) OAK:
Oakland Record:(54-46)
Oh well, you can’t win them all. But darn it, you can try! 😛
Mulder won last night, even though he really didn’t pitch too well. (Is that wrong for me to say?) I’m just glad I got to watch it. I missed his hit though. We were channel surfing and came back when he was already on first base. It’s never fun watching when he’s not on his game, but at least they won. So, good enough to win? I guess so…
Between postgame alerts…
26 July 2005
Mark Mulder on the mound (AP Photo)
The A’s aren’t on tv out here in the Central Valley. GRRRRRRR! But all is not lost in my baseball world. The Cardinals are on and Mulder was pitching until the 6th. It’s the bottom of the 7th and the Cards are up 4-2.
Pitching change.
Seven straight
25 July 2005 Cleveland 4, Oakland 13 at McAfee Coliseum
Winning pitcher – Barry Zito (9-8)
Losing pitcher – C.C. Sabathia (6-8)
SV – Keiichi Yabu (1)
Cleveland Runs: 4, Hits: 6, Errors 1
Oakland Runs: 13, Hits: 14, Errors 0
HR: CLE: J. Peralta (14) OAK: E. Chavez (17)
Oakland Record:(54-45)
This game was on television for us out here in the Valley. Yeehaw! It was GREAT watching it, especially seeing Chavez’s TWO home runs and Zito’s nasty curveball. So LOVE it when they win. 🙂
Sixth in a row…
24 July 2005 Oakland 8, Texas 3 at Ameriquest Field in Arlington
Winning pitcher – Rich Harden (8-4)
Losing pitcher – Chan Ho Park (8-5)
Oakland Runs: 8, Hits: 13, Errors 0
Texas Runs: 3, Hits: 7, Errors 0
Oakland Record:(53-45)
Not exactly a stellar performance from Harden, but an awesome game by the offense. The important thing? The A’s are now tied for first in the Wild Card race. Woohoo!
