Jonathan Sanchez
From SFGate:
The Giants’ 33-year no-hitter drought ended at China Basin on Friday night, and the pitcher who threw the nine innings of brilliance was not a Cy Young Award winner, nor a 300-game winner, nor a pitcher with a nine-figure contract. It was a pitcher so bad this year he was banished to the bullpen last month, a man who had not thrown a complete game in 50 big-league starts.
It was Jonathan Sanchez, a 26-year-old left-hander who until this night was the personification of pitching promise unfulfilled. Now, his name is etched forever on the list of this franchise’s great achievements.
In an 8-0 victory, with his father watching him start a major-league game for the first time, Sanchez no-hit the San Diego Padres and nearly had a perfect game. The only baserunner was Chase Headley, who reached on an error by third baseman Juan Uribe with one out in the eighth inning.
It was the first no-hitter by a Giant since John Montefusco’s in Atlanta on Sept. 29, 1976, the first ever at China Basin, the 17th in franchise history and the first in the majors since the Cubs’ Carlos Zambrano no-hit Houston last season.
And across America today, people will look at a staff that features Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain and Randy Johnson and say, Jonathan Sanchez?
But the damn Dodgers are still in first place by 7 games.
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For some reason it seems like no-hitters are usually thrown by unknowns. I don’t think Roger Clemens ever had one–at least not when he was in his prime with the Red Sox.
I remember when Dave Stewart of the A’s and Fernando Valenzuela both threw no-no’s on the same day. During the first game when Stewart was pitching in Toronto I remarked to my wife “That’s not something you see everyday” Then Valenzuela did the same thing during a night game at Dodger Stadium.
http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/news/bct/memory-lane-stewart-valenzuela-fire-no-hitters/
GO DODGERS GO DODGERS GO DODGERS GO DODGERS GO DODGERS
My apologies for going OT already, but I want to make a small explanation.
On the Goldman-Sachs post I made a comment that I intended to expand on the post, but that Riverdaughter interpreted as a personal criticism and insult. I want to state that nothing of the sort was intended.
However, since apparently my writing is so easy to misconstrue, I do intend to quit making even the occasional comments I do. I may pop in to read an occasional post, but I’ll stay away from the comments.
Good luck to all. Hope dakinikat gets justice in her situation. Keep up the good fight.
sister of ye
If you were bothered by what RD said then I don’t know what to say. Perhaps the blogosphere is too uncivilized sometimes, but what she said is about as mild as it ever gets.
I didn’t read her comments as snippy Ye. believe me, I’ve seen WAY worse!
The Internet is famous for lack of inflection leading to crossed wires. RD’s response was undoubtedly not meant to be personal, but I can see where you might’ve taken it that way in some measure. Even so, my experience is that this is one of the most upfront, trustworthy (and nonlethal) sites around. It might be good to rethink your intention to stop posting occasionally.
Agree with others. It tends to be pretty safe and nice here. If you think things are getting a bit weird in some comments I recommend just skipping that post and moving on to another. It probably has nothing to do with you personally or necessarily the points you’re trying to make but is instead just about miscommunication, either in how you’re interpreting things or how other commenters are interpreting you.
My substantive contribution here: because of my mother the fan, I grew up listening to the sound of Cubs games on the radio – summer’s most dependable, soothing serenade. Along with millions of others, I assumed that as long as the Cubs were in business, the universe was in order. Didn’t matter if they won, they just needed to be there. For a number of those years, I hadn’t a clue about the rules of baseball, but I certainly knew who Jack Brickhouse, Ernie Banks, and Ron Santo were (and had an early eye peeled for those great butt-friendly uniforms). The sound of the organ rolling through “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, followed by “play ball!” was music from hot dog heaven. Many years later, when I moved to Chicago, I finally got to visit the holy land – Wrigley Field on Addison Avenue, a ballpark securely anchored amidst blue collar neighborhoods within pitching distance of the El tracks, where the vendors in the stands housed some notable beery bellies under their aprons, most all seats were open to the heavens, the famous ivy covered wall remained in place, and the night lights wouldn’t go on until 1988. The Cubs were never much in the way of winning statistics and they still aren’t, but hearts – well, that’s an entirely different matter.
hmmm soif your a cubs fan than im sure that you know all about the curse of the goat???
Ah, the famous billy goat curse. Wonder how many exorcisms this has prompted through the years?
speaking of exorcisms it would be nice if we could perform one on the DNC there is more than one demon in the leadership of that bunch
How did the DNC wander onto the outfield?
OT, but Denninger is on fire today. Go read ALL of it. Here’s some snippets:
the same banks that lobbied hard this spring to get an exemption from mark-to-market accounting for the “assets” they hold on their books – an exemption they were in fact using without having it, as I will shortly illustrate.
Well now Doddering Dodd and “I’ve never been frank” Frank are asking for the impossible:
Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank asked the heads of U.S. banking regulators to look into whether their companies are carrying home-equity loans at “potentially inflated values,” which “may contribute to resistance on the part of servicers to negotiate the disposition of these liens.”
Most of these loans are in fact worth nothing!
Here’s the understatement of the year from the same article:
“It is well understood that the four major banks would likely need an additional capital injection should they be forced to mark the second-lien mortgages on their balance sheets to a realistic value,” Greenwich Financial’s Frey said.
Oh, so you mean our wonderful Congress has in fact encouraged and put into policy and law accounting fraud?
Why yes!
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REALITY folks is that these banks (and many more) are in fact BANKRUPT, right here and now. Again:
“It is well understood that the four major banks would likely need an additional capital injection should they be forced to mark the second-lien mortgages on their balance sheets to a realistic value,” Greenwich Financial’s Frey said.
In English (translation by Tickerguy), for the financially less-literate, this is what Greenwich’s Frey said:
These banks have less capital than the loss on these loans if the value of these loans are recorded honestly. That is, their assets are exceeded by their liabilities.
This is the definition of bankruptcy; ergo, these four banks are in fact BANKRUPT right here and now, have been bankrupt, and it is “widely understood”, including by Congress, The Federal Reserve, The FDIC and OCC that this is the case. All of these “Regulatory Arms” of our government are in fact actively conspiring in violation of the “Prompt Corrective Action” law to hide this.
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1203-Stupidity-Bites-HARD-Dodd-and-Frank.html
Things that make Obot heads ’splode:
What If Palin Were President
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/10/what_if_palin_were_president_97375.html
Giants win again tonight (2-1) to go 3-0 in the 4-game series against the Pod People.
Matt Cain was hit by a line drive and left the game but the x-rays were negative.