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El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 04:34 PM Apr 2012

Clown Fish become first team to walk four straight batters with four different pitchers

Like a little blonde girl sampling porridge in a house where bears live, Ozzie Guillen changed pitchers like crazy against the New York Mets on Tuesday night.

Josh Johnson went cold. Randy Choate and Steve Cishek came out too hot. Mike Dunn couldn't get out of the jam, either. No matter what Ozzie tried, he never got it just right for the Florida Marlins.

In the process, he and the Marlins committed a major-league first. Never before had a team walked four straight batters using four different pitchers, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The walk-a-thon allowed the Mets to tie the score in the bottom of the seventh, and they later pushed across another run to win 2-1 in Jose Reyes' return to Citi Field....

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/marlins-become-first-team-walk-four-straight-batters-153752924.html;_ylt=AhyQwWVQ2bNkQxmsBmG8VboRvLYF


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Clown Fish become first team to walk four straight batters with four different pitchers (Original Post) El Supremo Apr 2012 OP
You just know Bobby V. is all over this. bluedigger Apr 2012 #1
The official Red Sox movie is titled "Still, We Believe." KamaAina Apr 2012 #2

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
1. You just know Bobby V. is all over this.
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 05:15 PM
Apr 2012

If any staff can go five for five, it's Boston's bullpen. We just need an opponent patient enough not to swing...

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. The official Red Sox movie is titled "Still, We Believe."
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 06:10 PM
Apr 2012

But that wasn't the fans' choice. That was "Dude, Where's My Bullpen?"

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