Game 1 - Second Inning

Michael Young is batting clean up because Ron Washington is a m f ing genius.

Joe Buck calls him "one of the classier players in the game" What makes him classy? His name is Young and he's gettting old and he can't play SS anymore so he was classy and only bitched a little bit about being a 1B/DH in his twilight years. Carp probably strikes him out...

NOPE...2 hops to Furcal the Ring Demon...ONE OUT

Beltre up. Good glove, decent bat, low average...not a HOFer. Nelson Cruz on deck swinging..should be practicing with his glove...

FIRST EXTRA BASE HIT OF THE NIGHT - Beltre doubles off the series goat's glove, David Freese...

And here's Nellie Cruz. He is holding a bat.

Remember when Nelson Cruz was "Mr. 11th Inning" - Joe Buck? Yeah. I don't either. Napoli on deck. Series goat David Freese at 3rd.

Full count, good pitch from Carp with 1st base open...McCarver said that...Does he challenge Cruz? I don't think so...AND HE WALKED HIM...

Why aren't I listening to Rooney and Shannon? Next inning...

"This is precisely why Washington has Napoli behind Cruz" - JB Because Wash is m f ing GENIUS! He really is. I believe in Wash...

1-2, what does Carp do?....Throws a bad one out of the zone that Nap does not chase and Carp says audibly "GOD DAMMIT!"

Molina is coming out to tell him not to take the Lord's name in vain...oops, Pujols did that...

DOUBLE PLAY BALL! 6-4-3 INNING OVER!!!

There's the ARCH! (First sighting)

Here's Matt Holliday, under-appreciated Cardinal....

Takes strike one

THERE'S BIG MAC (first sighting)

Up the middle, off of Wilson's leg, Kinsler takes care of it...one out...

McGwire is a good hitting coach as long as the Cards are hitting good...

Berkman up. My hero. He gave over 2 million dollars to charity last year. Put him #7 on the celebrity giver list. Where is Albert Pujols? Anaheim (It's not LA, Al.)

Berkman works it 3-1. Some organizations thought he was finished.

Off the plate, Beltre's good glove takes care of the slow moving Berkman.

Here comes the series Goat...David Freese...

CJ Wilson throws like a jerk.

2 balls inside to start Freese...hitter's count...what will he do?

Look at ball 3 low...

"Seeing the ball extremely well" -JB

Strike one on the inside corner...

In case you didn't know, he went to Lafayette High in St. Louis. So did Ryan Howard...He was a senior..Freese was a freshman...Howard gave him a swirly at Freshman orientation...

And he draws a two out walk...

Here comes the great golden god of catching, Yadi Molina who will be in my good graces until he signs with the Angels after 2012...

Molina works it 2-0...Punto on deck...

Ball 3 is called strike 1

Slices strike 2 foul...Jose and Bengie are there with Mama Molina...

His brothers each have 2 rings...Yadi only has one :( What will he do about that?

Ball 3 finally arrives...Full count...foul off...Wilson will probably strike him out...

Nope...ground out to Elvis...

INNING OVER