Hot Monday

glorious! Oakland 2, Minnesota 1 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

Winning pitcher – Joe Blanton (6-9)
Losing pitcher – Johan Santana (10-6)

SV – Huston Street (10)

Oakland Runs: 2, Hits: 5, Errors 0
Minnesota Runs: 1, Hits: 2, Errors 1

HR: OAK: MIN: J. Morneau (15)

Oakland Record:(59-46)

Woohoo, another win for the A’s!!! Awesomely awesome. 😉

I had my follow-up eye appointment this morning. I was in there for an HOUR. Totally goofy. But all was well with my eyes. I could have told them that without waiting an hour. Geez.

And yes, another very warm day. When will the temperature go down just a little? Just a very little? Alas!

Slow Sunday…

groovy Detroit 2, Oakland 5 at McAfee Coliseum

Winning pitcher – Kirk Saarloos (7-6)
Losing pitcher – Jeremy Bonderman (13-7)

Detroit Runs: 2, Hits: 7, Errors 0
Oakland Runs: 5, Hits: 9, Errors 1

HR: DET: M. Ordonez (4)
HR: OAK: J. Payton (10) N. Swisher (15)

Oakland Record:(58-46)

Again, no A’s on tv! I did not see one A’s/Tigers game this weekend. Suck! But hey, they won. ‘Tis all that matters, eh? 😉

Mulder in what should have been a win for him...
Mulder in today’s game… (AP Photo)

The Cardinals game was on. It’s very interesting listening to a Dodgers game. Non stop talk from ONE person. Wow!… Mulder should have won that game. He left with the freakin’ lead! But noooooo, the Dodgers came back to tie it. The good thing, of course, is that the Cards still managed the win. Woohoo!!!

I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!!! I enjoyed it very much and look forward to the rest of the tale. I will say, I nearly cried at the end. Alas… Now I think I’ll start all over again and read each book once more. 😆

Saturday loveliness

yeehaw! 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!

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Friday goodness

yeehaw! 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.

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Day game delight

a new streak begins! 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. 😆

Harden serving up the floats
(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

alas, snapped! 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…

Mulder on the mound...
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.

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