Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – July 19, 2014

Photo – San Diego Padres (via Twitter)

Is Fox Sports still not willing to talk about “dead guys” because of a 1990’s mentality? Time to break that.

Baseball takes place in the past, present and future all at the same time. That sentence makes sense to me.

It is a respect the future and past episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.

Travis d’Arnaud, Jason Kipnis, Madison Bumgarner, Yu Darvish, Brayan Pena, Omar Infante and Tom Wilhelmsen all added to their totals for Who Owns Baseball?

ALERT – Josh Donaldson is good at baseball

Ben Margot, Associated Press

In case anyone was wondering, Josh Donaldson is good at his job. As in “If the A’s are losing in the 9th and Donaldson is the go ahead run at the plate, just cue up Celebration by Kool and the Gang” good at his job.

The A’s went back and forth with the Orioles and Donaldson’s old nemesis, Manny Machado, looked like he was going to slug the first place Orioles past the first place A’s.

Jeff Samardzija was going to have another hard luck loss.

Oh wait. Donaldson was up as the winning run. My bad. Nothing to worry about here.

One walk off come from behind 3 run bottom of the 9th home run coming up!

BOOM! A’s are 5-4 winners. If this is a playoff preview, then the East Bay will be rocking.

Time to update the Dodged Bullet/Teeth Grinder tally.

An explanation of what this is all about can be found HERE.

 

 

A’S DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally

Down 4-2 in the bottom of the 9th, Josh Donaldson launched a 3 run walk off shot to give the A’s a stunning 5-4 win over Baltimore. DODGED BULLET

38 Dodged Bullets 29 Teeth Grinders

TOTAL: +9

GIANTS DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally

36 Dodged Bullets 30 Teeth Grinders

TOTAL: + 6

 



RED SOX DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally

A 4 run 6th inning, capped by Jonny Gomes’ pinch hit 2 run homer, turned an early 4-1 hole into a 5-4 Boston win over Kansas City. DODGED BULLET

32 Dodged Bullets 38 Teeth Grinders

TOTAL: -6

Yes, these tallies include the A’s dodged bullet on July 13th and the Red Sox, Giants and A’s teeth grinder from July 12th.