Obviously, it was Houston Astros starter Chris Sampson's fault that Dan Wheeler blew the save against the Oakland Athletics last night. So, he did what any frustrated reliever with an 0-4 record, 6.10 ERA and three blown saves would do - he shoved him in the dugout.
Wheeler left after surrendering three runs in the eighth inning Wednesday night, aiding the A's in their 7-3 come-from-behind victory.
Sampson, who pitched seven strong innings, tried to console Wheeler when he came back to the dugout. Wheeler, demoted from the closer role after blowing a save in Colorado last Thursday, turned and shoved Sampson with both hands, then yelled at him to stay at the other end of the dugout.
This is, of course, reminiscent of the beatdown Chicago Cubs' ace Carlos Zambrano gave Michael Barrett two weeks ago, though this one was over in seconds and never escalated to fisticuffs.
Which makes it a total waste of my time.
Wheeler struck out the first two Oakland batters he faced before Jason Kendall and Marco Scutaro, pinch-hitting for starter Joe Blanton, singled.
Mark Kotsay then drove a double into the left-field corner to score Kendall and tie the game before Mark Ellis lined Wheeler's next pitch off the left-field wall to bring Scutaro and Kotsay around the horn.
Trever Miller relieved Wheeler, but Eric Chavez - who also homered - added a two-run single later on in the five-run eighth. The A's came back to win after trailing through seven innings for the second straight night, winning nine of their last eleven games.
Blanton won for just the second time in five starts, despite giving up eight hits - six of them doubles.
Sampson singled and scored a run for the Astros, while allowing only three hits - two of them longballs. Eric Munson and Hunter Pence had RBI doubles for the Astros, who've lost five of their last eight.
5 comments:
I hate it when that happens. Same with the Marlins game last night - I don't want to see the benches clear unless there's a brawl. That's all there is to it.
Any excuse you girls can find to put a picture of Mark Kotsay up, huh.
As if It's not bad enough that the Mets are blowing leads, not executing and just plain sucking, they're getting bullied by the likes of Brad Penny and Hong-Chih Kuo.
Where'd I put that bottle of Hennigan's? It's noon somewhere, right?
Don't drink yourself to death yet, Mikeski!
You know how hard it was for me NOT to cover Carlos Silva's complete game shutout? So hard I had to mention it in the comments.
Heh..."yet".
Sooze, you rapscallion.
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