Tuesday, June 8, 2010

"Clogging the bases"



Alan Robinson of AP reports that yesterday at the Cubs/Pirates game, Carlos Silva hit a fly ball that reached the right field wall on one bounce but stopped at first base for a single.

"I didn't even try to go to second base, my legs weren't there," Silva said. "That's why I didn't want to do anything crazy."

Silva was then thrown out at second base when Ryan Theriot hit what would have been a single to right field.

?!?!

Remember years ago when baseball sage Dusty Baker said that from an offensive standpoint, he did not like baserunners because they "clog up the bases"?

Maybe he was on to something there.

As an added bonus, attached is a photo of the crowd in Pittsburgh yesterday.

The AP story reports 141 people in the upper deck.

Do you even put a roaming vendor up there?

4 comments:

TheRealDFG said...

96 of them were Cubs fans

Orioles Magic said...

Wow, yeah for a Cubs game? That's crazy.

tastelikedirt said...

Maybe they should put tarps on the upper deck. That would be sweet.

Contrary Guy said...

Looks great too!