Talk about a wild card. This one was just plain wild. Chipper Jones played his final game. The Atlanta fans turned Turner Field into a trash heap after a disputed infield fly call. And the St. Louis Cardinals did what they always seem to do in October. They celebrated another postseason triumph. Matt Holliday homered and the Cardinals rallied from an early deficit, taking advantage of three Atlanta throwing errors -- the most crucial of them by the retiring Jones -- to beat the Braves 6-3 in a winner-take-all wild-card playoff Friday. In the eighth inning, there was more crazy throwing, this time by an irate crowd that littered the field to protest an umpiring decision that went against the Braves. The Cardinals fled for cover, the Braves protested, and the game was halted for 19 minutes while workers cleared up all the beer cups, popcorn holders and other debris. Source: ESPN
One of the worst calls I've ever seen. On a side note, if it was Phillies fans throwing stuff like that, the media would have a field day with it.
How can the infield fly rule be called when the ball is about ten feet from the ground. Extremely bad call that really had no bearing on the outcome. The Braves crap the bed with errors and missed opportunities at the plate. Just a bad game for the great Chipper Jones to end his career. Not one ball out of the infield . And yes...if it happened in Philly, the fans would be barbecued in the media.
There is no way to know that. They would have had bases loaded with only one out. Anything could have happened.
True. I rescind that portion of the post. My disbelief in how the Braves played so poorly overrode sensibility.
They had plenty of chances to do crap in that game. I have ZERO sympathy. It was the right call just at the wrong time. The ump should have called that much earlier but I think either way the Braves would have lost that game. I'm just mega glad that Larry essentially cost them the game. Stay Classy Atlanta!
