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Tomas
April 24th, 2009
8:25 pm
Schafer has been having some pretty good at bats lately.
Ugaman
April 24th, 2009
8:26 pm
Waling Ross intentionally to get to JV
Run Heap Run
April 24th, 2009
8:26 pm
Oh yay the pitcher is up!
abwright
April 24th, 2009
8:26 pm
Ross walks to load the bases. Vazquez comes to the plate.
a643dp
April 24th, 2009
8:27 pm
Javier needs to take pitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David O'Brien
April 24th, 2009
8:27 pm
Well, they’re sure running up Volquez’s pitch count now — up to 71 pitches, and he doesn’t have 11 outs yet.
Run Heap Run
April 24th, 2009
8:27 pm
But wouldn’t it be hilarious if the hit he is going to give up is to the pitcher?
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:27 pm
Our pitchers are seriously going to have to singlehandedly win every game from now on.
How about an hour of batting practice just for the starters?
braint
April 24th, 2009
8:27 pm
5 walks in this ballpark with 0 runs? That’s not very encouraging.
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:27 pm
I have faith in you Javy.
You can do it.
Choppinmama
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
Bases loaded, 2 outs………..isn’t Yunel up to bat? THAT would be interesting to say the least.
Stephen
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
VAZQUEZ WITH THE GRAND SLAM
NCBravesFan
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
Since April 14, when the Braves fell into their funk, they’ve scored in just 12 innings covering nine full games.
ArkyTech
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
KJ still in the lineup? Prado and Omar still riding the pine?
In the words of Nancy Kerrigan….”WHYYYYYY??? WHY????????????!!!!!!!!”
TnBrian
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
Krusty the Clown might not be calling Yunel a pu*!* once he gotta hold of em!
K Johnson
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
HOw bad do you think volquez smells?
abwright
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
Volquez nearly throws the ball away. Good play by the catcher. 2-1 to Vazquez.
David O'Brien
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
Even A.J. Burnett’s nine-walk, one-hit-batsman no-hitter didn’t have this many pitches this early. At least I don’t remember it having quite this many.
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
Make it happen Javy!
Ugaman
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
Wow, he’s should groove on here
abwright
April 24th, 2009
8:28 pm
3-1 to Vazquez. No where close to the plate on that last one. V’s gotta take two.
Smyrna Jim
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
JAVY!!!! Great eye (wink, wink)!
David O'Brien
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
We need Escobar to lay down a bunt to break up the no-no — that’d get this roiling, don’t you think?
keylargo
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
win with 0 hits?
Stephen
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Treehouse
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
WALKED in a run! Sadly, that’s the only way we can score….
a643dp
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
we got lucky that was a strike
TnBrian
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
Walked in a run!! THE PITCHER OF ALL GUYS… WOAH!
northbeach Scott
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
Sweet. FU Edinson, you douchebag.
abwright
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
Low! Braves score a run! Close pitch, but he’s been wild. Didn’t get the call.
keylargo
April 24th, 2009
8:29 pm
Come on KJ, get another walk!
David O'Brien
April 24th, 2009
8:30 pm
Braves’ last two runs over the past 21 innings have come on bases-loaded walks.
braint
April 24th, 2009
8:30 pm
oops, I posted too soon.
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:30 pm
Yeah baby!!!!!!!!
That’s my dog.
Get a grip Endinson, you and your stupid name. Those aren’t even close. Lose the ‘tude.
northbeach Scott
April 24th, 2009
8:30 pm
Blast one KJ in this band box.
Ugaman
April 24th, 2009
8:30 pm
I’m sure that wasn’t intentional! And we thought that the Braves were the only teams that did that sort of thing!
ArkyTech
April 24th, 2009
8:31 pm
Kelly hitting .138 vs righties.
MFin04
April 24th, 2009
8:31 pm
Hey boys, thats how we score runs. it works, lol.
John Milton
April 24th, 2009
8:31 pm
They also serve who only stand and wait!
Interested Observer
April 24th, 2009
8:31 pm
Who knows maybe we can walk ourselves into the World Series!! Swinging hasn’t done any good.
N Nine
April 24th, 2009
8:31 pm
hey he still has a no no …
Edinson Volquez must have goo on his hands!
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Like seriously!
Smyrna Jim
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Why is KJ batting in this spot??? Oh, …never mind.
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Bull… well, you know the rest.
keylargo
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Come on Escobar. Keep that bat on your shoulder!!
TnBrian
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Now, Yunel needs some patback, right?
Mixxo
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Good eye KJ!
Run Heap Run
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Sweet!
Hey wasn’t it Jered Weaver last year that took a no-no into the 9th and then he walked in a run with an out or two and Scioscia took him out and whoever got the last out but they lost the game 1-0.
MariettaDerek
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
That a way, KJ! Now, Yunel Grand Slam! Get double pits to chesty with it!
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Kelly! Way to not make an out.
Run Heap Run
April 24th, 2009
8:32 pm
Revenge right here, Yunel. You can do it!
Stephen
April 24th, 2009
8:33 pm
Yunel should just randomly charge the mound with his bat, maybe he could actually hit something.
Steve from OH
April 24th, 2009
8:33 pm
Well, lots of good AB by the Braves so far, at least. Volquez’ stuff is electric…glad he can’t find the zone, because if he does tonight, no one will touch him.
MFin04
April 24th, 2009
8:33 pm
I dunno what the ump is looking at…some of those pitchers are strikes…not sure which ones anymore…but…we’ll take it.
Ugaman
April 24th, 2009
8:33 pm
Did someone send out the middle relief of the Braves and give them Vosquez’s jersey? This is umbelievable. No hits, two runs in and the lead!
Tom O'Hawke
April 24th, 2009
8:33 pm
Has a team ever won 10-1, while being no-hit?
ArkyTech
April 24th, 2009
8:33 pm
Kelly is a lot more productive when he doesn’t swing
Brandon
April 24th, 2009
8:34 pm
Hey I read the benches cleared earlier in the ball game…just got home. Can anyone fill me in?
Hey, runs are runs.
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:34 pm
If Yunel hits a homerun here he better take his sweet time rounding the bases.
I’d settle for a single. Or a walk.
Run Heap Run
April 24th, 2009
8:34 pm
How about…walk Yunie and let Chipper come up and get his birthday present. Or not.
MFin04
April 24th, 2009
8:34 pm
%#@$#@$%#@$#@$#@ THIS OFFENSE SUCKS!!!!!!!!! @$#@!$!@$!@ PUT PRADO AND INFANTE IN!! GEEEEZZZ!
Runnin
April 24th, 2009
8:34 pm
IO, so you ARE a Braves fan?!?
Moby Grape
April 24th, 2009
8:35 pm
2 runs on no hits? Hey Dave you might still have a shot next time through the order.
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:35 pm
Wow.
Interested Observer
April 24th, 2009
8:35 pm
Darn! Yunel swung at a pitch!
N Nine
April 24th, 2009
8:35 pm
Aflac trivia? Last time someone pitched a no hitter and lost?
David O'Brien
April 24th, 2009
8:35 pm
Volquez threw 40 pitches in that unsightly inning. Five walks, including four in a row with two outs.
TnBrian
April 24th, 2009
8:36 pm
Brandon, go back a couple of pages and it’ll be there, in detail. That’s what I did.
Tom O'Hawke
April 24th, 2009
8:36 pm
PSSSSSSSSSSHT …. don’t you just love the sound of that first one opening for the evening? eh, cabravesfan?
spotts
April 24th, 2009
8:36 pm
At least Volquez still has the no hitter going.
…except for Yunel
JasonInFL (Formerly ME)
April 24th, 2009
8:36 pm
someone…anyone…please…get…a…big…hit!
Mitchell
April 24th, 2009
8:36 pm
Not a chance Brandon.
You should have been there. I’ll never tell.
Run Heap Run
April 24th, 2009
8:36 pm
Jered Weaver, N Nine?
Ugaman
April 24th, 2009
8:36 pm
We could actually win this game with no hits. Vasquez is on tonight, so the Reds may not score again with our main bullpen guys rested and available!
a643dp
April 24th, 2009
8:37 pm
I think the braves bullpen gave the nationals and the reds pitchers a case of “ballsyndrom”
Chuck James was Solid until the 6th!!!
April 24th, 2009
8:37 pm
DOB “Braves’ last two runs over the past 21 innings have come on bases-loaded walks.”
PATHETIC!!! All they can do now is hope for walks to get runs scored?? Volquez not hitter through 4….
Chuck James was Solid until the 6th!!!
April 24th, 2009
8:37 pm
**no hitter
Chuck James was Solid until the 6th!!!
April 24th, 2009
8:38 pm
a643dp
Nah I think we gave Volquez elephantitis tonight dude!
Wil
April 24th, 2009
8:38 pm
Nine. from Wiki:
Unlike a perfect game, in which no batters reach base, in regular no-hitters batters can reach base in other ways, such as a walk, an error, or a hit batsman. Thus it is possible to lose a no-hitter. On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s became the only pitcher to lose a complete game no-hitter in nine innings when he was beaten 1-0 by Cincinnati. The winning run was scored by Pete Rose in the top of the ninth inning via an error, groundout, and another error.[10] In 1967, Steve Barber and Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles pitched a combined no-hitter, but lost 2-1 to the Detroit Tigers.[11]
Because the home team does not bat in the ninth inning when it is already leading, a visiting pitcher (or pitchers) may complete a full game without allowing a hit but not be credited with an official no-hitter because they pitched only 8 innings. This happened most recently on June 28, 2008, when Jered Weaver and José Arredondo of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim threw 8 no-hit innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, but lost the game 1-0 and are not credited with a no-hitter. This is the first near no-hitter of this kind in which more than one pitcher was involved. Previously, Silver King (1890), Andy Hawkins (1990), and Matt Young (1992) pitched complete games without allowing a hit, but pitched only 8 innings as the losing pitcher from the visiting team, and thus are not credited with a no-hitter.[12][13]
Ugaman
April 24th, 2009
8:39 pm
Oh No! No more walks Javy! I know you need to warm back up, but get it together quick!
braint
April 24th, 2009
8:39 pm
9 RBI for KJ — doesn’t that come out to over 90 RBI on the year?
Interested Observer
April 24th, 2009
8:39 pm
Runnin….Yes, I am a Braves fan…a frustrated one…who likes to see them win…and thinks they have the talent so that they SHOULD be.
cabravesfan
April 24th, 2009
8:39 pm
sooo…did the strike zone get bored and wonder off?
MFin04
April 24th, 2009
8:40 pm
The strike zone with this ump DOES NOT EXIST
cabravesfan
April 24th, 2009
8:40 pm
or wander even?
N Nine
April 24th, 2009
8:40 pm
Run Heap Run :
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Has_there_ever_been_a_no_hitter_loss_in_baseball
PI Braves
April 24th, 2009
8:41 pm
Vazquez returning the favor..
spotts
April 24th, 2009
8:41 pm
Has a team ever won a game without getting a hit?
N Nine
April 24th, 2009
8:42 pm
Wil! you beat me to it!!
MFin04
April 24th, 2009
8:42 pm
Ump thinks its homerun derby…where you get as many pitches as you want to hit the ball.
McFann Ô
April 24th, 2009
8:42 pm
Bravos2294
Yeah…I was trying to find the replay of Hairston’s bunt, but I couldn’t find it. That was kinda funny, though–Mac standing in his way.
Ah, but I sure wish it wasn’t now that they got to play the Reds on the road. Only go up there once a year…
Oh well. Maybe they’ll meet again in the playoffs.
Wil
April 24th, 2009
8:43 pm
Spotts, the two paragraphs above are about your exact question. Pitchers who threw no hitters and lost, hence a team wining without a hit.
a643dp
April 24th, 2009
8:43 pm
Best no hitter of all time was doc ellis eight walks and a no hitter on LSD. Hey DOB were you there I think the dead did a post game concert after. Was ellis sitting on second base after the game watching the fireworks?
abwright
April 24th, 2009
8:43 pm
They’re talking about pitchers who threw no-hitters and lost. It’s only the 4th inning and Volquez has thrown about 200 pitches.
spotts
April 24th, 2009
8:44 pm
Thanks for saving me the reading
spotts
April 24th, 2009
8:44 pm
I don’t even think the Reds need their outfielders this game.
Wayne in Utah
April 24th, 2009
8:44 pm
Wha’t the word on McCann (sorry, I have been away for a couple of days)???
Thanks in advance.
abwright
April 24th, 2009
8:44 pm
Base hit. First and second. 2 outs.
Ugaman
April 24th, 2009
8:46 pm
Javier is looking like a really good pickup for Wren. I know Bobby has loved him since he first came up with the Expos. He just dominated the Braves when he pitched for them. I’m really loving his poise on the mound. I’m thinking he just couldn’t handle the scrutiny of NY and the stupidity of Ozzie. This guy is the real deal when he’s playin for people who will trust him like Bobby does. That is why players love playing for Bobby. He covers their back and let’s them play ball and doesn’t overreact when a guy struggles through a rough patch. Some of you fellow bloggers wouldn’t have a team if you ran it the way you talk on this blog.
abwright
April 24th, 2009
8:46 pm
Phillips steals third. No throw by Ross. Good thing, too. Hoss wasn’t covering.