Blogger: ByrnesBlogger1
Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog". Contact: ByrnesBlogger1[at]azsportshub.com
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Playoffs
I am rooting for whomever comes out of the Chicago-Tampa Bay playoff. Right now I’d like to see TB win. I like their worst-to-first story and their ability to come from behind in the late innings. But the White Sox winning gets Junior Griffey deeper into the post season, and that, as Mychael Urban would [...]
1Oct2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedR.I.P. 2008 Diamondbacks
I console myself by thinking that the playoffs would not have been that much fun without Byrnesie anyway, and that it would have been terrible to see Orlando Hudson sidelined for the second October in a row. But the bottom line is that the Diamondbacks would have won the division going away if they’d played [...]
26Sep2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedThe other 22…
as in wins for Webby. 2008 National League Cy Young Award to Brandon Webb. Yes, Tim Lincecum will win it someday. But not this year.
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Cathedral Hype
is almost over as I write this. Hoooray! I had never heard of Yankee Stadium being a cathedral before this year and I hope I won’t hear it again after this year. Yes, you will not be able to say “Ruth played here” at the new stadium. But it is not as if the Yankees, [...]
21Sep2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedByrnesie UpDate
Eric Byrnes did his radio interview and LV appearance today instead of the usual Friday because of scheduling conflicts. He reported himself well on the mend, having recently run a 4:40 mile on a special kind of treadmill. He is going to use his full no-trade clause to stay in Arizona for the remainder of [...]
18Sep2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedCongratulations, Dan Haren…
for pitching your first shut-out. (Diamondbacks 2 – Giants 0). ‘Bout damned time you threw a complete game! And Happy Birthday!
BoMel, thank you for sticking with Dan even though he gave up two singles in the ninth. Sometimes ya gotta let the young’uns clean up they own mess.
While I am on the subject of [...]
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse…
the Diamondbacks drop two of three to the Reds–who are about as bad as the Giants–at home, in extra innings. The starting pitching has straightened itself out; Randy Johnson had a good outing Saturday, but at this rate, he’ll have to pitch ’til he’s 50 to get to 300. Rookie Max Scherzer struck out nine [...]
14Sep2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedThis is terrible!
Bad enough to be swept by the Dodgers, but to be swept by the Giants, a team that went into the series 18 games below .500, is terrible. Especially when the last two of the three were Giants walk-offs. There was so much wrong with that.
Doug Davis did about as well as could be [...]
Qualls is closer.
After Brandon Lyon’s latest spate of ineffectivenees nearly cost Brandon Webb his 20th win, Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin named Chad Qualls the closer.
Qualls has had 3 saves in 11 opportunities this year.
The Dodgers have activated closer Takashi Saito.
This year’s NL Wild Card will come out of the East or the Central. Houston, [...]
20!
Finally! Brandon Webb has become only the third pitcher in Diamondbacks’ history to win 20 games in a season. (Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling are the others). He threw 8 innings of shut-out ball, 98 pitches total, at the Cincinnati Reds. I would have liked to have seen him complete the effort, but as the [...]
14Sep2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedGiants 6 Diamondbacks 2
And it wasn’t even that close. The Diamondbacks did not score until the ninth inning and only because the Giants could not turn a game-ending double play.
Looking at this game from the larger perspective of the playoff race, the problem wasn’t so much that Giants’ starter Tim Lincecum was lights out for 8.1 innings (9 [...]
Uh, Guys?…
It wasn’t that long ago that you were 4.5 games up the the Dodgers. Now they are 1.5 games up on you as you face the Giants Cy Young candidate, Tim Lincecum tonight. It’s like you are learning to juggle and you keep dropping a ball. Just when the bullpen seemed to get its act [...]
8Sep2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedByrnesie healing well, but won’t be back in ‘08
I saw Eric Byrnes online this morning on livevideo.com. He said the doctor was pleased with the latest MRI of his hamstring. The leg is healing very well. But EB has been advised to not push it. So Byrnesie won’t be coming back in ‘08. The doctor has recommended that Byrnesie treat his leg as [...]
5Sep2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | ContinuedDrew Makes History in Wild and Woolly Win
Stephen Drew was sick in both senses of the word yesterday. He was physically ill, reportedly having fever that hit 102 degrees before the game. And he had a career day at the plate, going 5-5 including hitting for Chase Field’s first-ever cycle, and only the third one in Diamondbacks history.
The Diamondbacks beat the Cardinals [...]
Byrnes progressing, return questionable
Outfielder takes swings on field, to have MRI next week
By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
SAN DIEGO — Eric Byrnes took batting practice on the field Tuesday for the first time since suffering a torn hamstring almost two months ago….
Byrnes said he will have an MRI taken next week to determine if his left hamstring has healed sufficiently [...]
27Aug2008 | ByrnesBlogger1 | 0 comments | Continued
