Friday, August 12, 2005

This Week In Baseball

Summed up by three amazing plays and one semi-rare occurrence.

Three amazing plays. Sorry I don't have video / images of these.

1) David Wright's barehanded catch in Tuesday night's Mets / Padres game. He got an ovation from the opposition fans!

2) K-Rod's lapse of judgment and Jason Kendall's great steal of home to win the game for the A's in extra innings. What a great play by Kendall!

3) Mike Cameron colliding with Carlos Beltran in Thursday afternoon's Mets / Padres gams. Hopefully they are okay. Later in the game, Cliff Floyd was hit on the knee by a pitch and Roberto Hernandez had a ground ball hit him in the hand. The Mets also lost the game.

For the first time, post-9/11 a fan jumped into the net behind home plate at the Yankees game. There was a ton of press coverage about this, and the fan got put in jail. But, pre-9/11 this actually happened once before (and I hadn't noticed it in any articles until I checked google) but back then there definitely wasn't as much coverage of the event.

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