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Vin Scully announced he would return to broadcast Dodger games for a 60th season in 2009, reports Ken Gurnick of MLB.com. Happy days for all mankind ...
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Andre Ethier's 5-for-5 night compelled me to search for what I decided to call Yahtzee games: games in which a player's boxscore line read "5 5 5 5." (If you want a fifth 5, you can count plate appearances.) I knew Steve Garvey had one, on August 28, 1977 when he hit two homers and three doubles, but since 1956, according to Baseball-Reference.com, there has been only one other: Larry Parrish of Montreal, just three months before Garvey's.
Update: No, Yahtzee games don't have to be all 5s. I just thought those were pretty cool. There have been no 6 6 6 6 games, but here are some 4 4 4 4 games (none with just four plate appearances). Randy Wolf once had a 3 3 3 3 game with three plate appearances.
Should be a nice day at the ballpark, I'll be there, thinking of bringing some "Lee's Sandwiches" to the game.
Except Vin won't be at today's game since it's on Fox.
6-0 Opponents - 13 runs, Dodgers - 40 runs
Dodger starters - 0-7 during the losing streak, 6-0 during the winning streak.
Also, though I have mixed feelings about Simers, I highly applaud his berating of Rick Reilly. I hate that guy.
There are 10 of them within a 20 mile radius of my home.
"What do you want for dinner tonight?"
"I'm feelin' Arby's."
But not play on Sunday.
Wasn't he around 4 years old when the show went off the air?
Btw, I'm quite tired of all this weather out here on the east coast. Give it a rest, Mother Nature.
And an even more memorable 1 1 1 2 game.
"The Burning"
ELAINE: So where do you wanna eat?
PUDDY: Feels like an Arby's night.
Stan from Tacoma
Manny is close behind, raising his OPS 72 points since July 31.
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/VbsN
Russ Martin had a Yahtzee 2 game last September, one of 17 since 1956:
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/KHvR
There have been numerous Yahtzee 1 games, the last being Andruw Jones' pinch HR in the St. Louis comeback (and eventual loss) game.
And I doubt Ethier has any idea about the ruckus stirred by Simers.
Hilarious to everyone else but us, I guess.
I prefer to think of it as complementing each other.
Back to 1 , are "Lee's sandwiches" the ones you brought to the Friday Cleveland game?
Much like a kick in the crotch, it's funny to everyone except the kickee.
Lee's are Bahn mi sandwiches.
One thing I have noticed is that Ethier is pulling the ball a little more during this recent hitting streak, it may be that teams are working him inside and also throwing more breaking stuff that he can pull or go up the middle.
/gas-on-fire
I object. The nickname was originally intended to be ironic, and Ethier's recent emergence only makes the irony sweeter.
Besides, it beats my wife's nickname for him, which is "Pretty Boy."
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