The Wilson vs. Dunn AB from the 8th last night. The Nats announcers were griping about it for a...

The Wilson vs. Dunn AB from the 8th last night. The Nats announcers were griping about it for a good half hour after it happened.

PFX thinks it was a good pitch.

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It certainly wasn’t a pitch you throw away a historic victory on. I’m ok with the ump having a sense of history at such a moment. I was standing next to a Cubs fan at the Red Loft in CF and after that pitch we started talking about Milt Pappas no-hitter, which was a perfect game with two outs in the 9th. With a 2-2 count on Larry Stahl, Pappas threw two consecutive fastballs at the knees on the outside corner and Bruce Froemming called them both balls. Pappas retired the next batter to preserve his no-hitter but had lost what would have been the 8th perfect game since 1900. After the game Froemming had the nerve to tell reporters that both pitches “could have been called either way.”

A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.

by Roger on Jun 5, 2009 6:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Roger, so you made it out for the double header? Cool!

That’s pretty amazing, I’m glad you got to see it — rain and all. How was the game in person (besides wet)? On the TV, you could hear a bunch of Randy chants near the end. I thought that was cool.

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by xanthan on Jun 5, 2009 6:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I had a great time at the first game. There’s a big porch bar in hanging above CF that has a roof over it and there were several 100 people hanging out there by the end of the game — all rooting for Johnson to win and a lot of whom were pretty knowledgeable general baseball fans. There were two woman next to me at the rail and on Burriss’ great double play one of them let out a shout and when her friend asked why she was rooting against the Nats, she said “i just like good double plays.” Anyway, it was a pretty good party atmosphere and there really didn’t seem to be anybody rooting for the Nats. When Dunn was called out there was as lusty a cheer as 2000 people in a giant sports arena in a chilly downpour can muster.

The second game was just sheer misery, however. It was cold; it was wet; and nobody was having fun. Everybody was just trying to hang on until the 5th so they could call it.

by Roger on Jun 5, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sounds like a good time. Maybe next season we can meet up for a Nats game when the G’s are in town. I was bummed I couldn’t make it up this season.

Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Jun 5, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Looks like a strike to me.

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by FairweatherFan on Jun 5, 2009 8:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It definitely looked low on the TV replay. If I’d been Dunn, I’d have been much more…er… animated about the call.

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by Lyle on Jun 5, 2009 9:17 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

If you were Dunn, you wouldn’t love or care about baseball anyway.

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by ResDog on Jun 5, 2009 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

by briandean on Jun 5, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for the visual confirmation, Brian!

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by Lyle on Jun 5, 2009 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

looks shopped

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by S.F. Giangst on Jun 5, 2009 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That appears to be a picture of where the catcher caught it. I thought it looked like it had some sink or drop at the end, so it may have passed through the zone before this picture.

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by raisingcain on Jun 6, 2009 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pitch f/x isn’t batter-adjusted, so this doesn’t really mean too much – the pitch may have been a strike for the average hitter, but Dunn is very tall, so his kneecaps are higher than most.

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:-(

by Cookyman on Jun 5, 2009 9:54 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs