Pics: PCL Playoffs - Tacoma at Sacramento (9/11)
by Flashfire on Sep 13, 2009 3:17 AM EDT
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From Raley Field in Sacramento. The River Cats won, 13-2. In Game 3 of their best-of-five Pacific Coast League playoff series with the Rainiers, Sacramento poured it on early and late and rode a strong performance by Jerome Williams (7 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 SO) to coast to the victory and a 2-1 series lead. Chris Carter, Matt Carson and Brett Wallace all went deep for the River Cats and Wallace had 4 RBI. Chris Denorfia and Adrian Cardenas both pitched in with 3 hits each and Cardenas also had 3 RBI. Tacoma's Andrew Baldwin didn't make it out of the 3rd, giving up 6 ER on 8 H before the River Cats added on in the 8th with 5 more runs against Robert Manuel, capped off by Wallace's 3-run homer.
I've got 65 pics here. I'm not completely happy with the way some of them came out but I think I had to shoot a little differently earlier in the game because it was mostly overcast and not as bright. Definitely a good game, though. I never get tired of taking pictures of water cup baths either because it means good things for the Cats. They won again tonight (Chris Carter hit ANOTHER homer) and will next play Memphis for the Pacific Coast League title.
Tony DeFrancesco, the skipper:
Tacoma is introduced:
A very damaging lineup:
At attention for the Anthem:
Jerome Williams was on tonight:
Gregorio Petit hurdles Jerry Owens after the forceout (that's all they'd get on this play):
Andrew Baldwin was in trouble often and didn't get out of the third:
Chris Carter goes deep for the fourth game in a row (including three in the playoffs):
They're ready and waiting:
Travis Buck chats with Yung-Chi Chen during a pitching change:
Carlos Silva waits as Matt Carson jogs out a home run:
Carter & Carson:
Williams can kick back and relax after a good night's work:
Wallace caps it off with a big blast:
Wallace & Buck:
That's what you get:
Sam Demel works in the 9th:
Always a good sight for the home side:
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Sweet!
Jeroooome, Jeroooooome!. Jerome Williams is still around huh, that is pretty cool. Chris Carter is HUGE! By the looks of the last pic here, and the anthem pic – next to Wallace and Everidge too I might add. Both Wallace and Carter’s swings look really nice here in static form. You can see there eyes are locked dead in ball until it comes off the barrel.
by ChalupaCabrera on Sep 13, 2009 11:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Is it just me or does Chris Carter have the legs of a clydesdale?
They’re like four feet long. He reminds me of a young Dave Winfield.
by PissedMick on Sep 13, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
buck/wallace
are they both throwing up the shocker?
by fuzzy14eva on Sep 13, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That's what I thought
They’re both from ASU, so it’s the pitchfork highfive thingy they do down there.
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by Orodawg on Sep 13, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I didn't realize that at the time
If you, um, compare pics of the shocker and the pitchfork the index and middle finger are together for the shocker, apart for the pitchfork.
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by Flashfire on Sep 13, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You act as if the "inverted W" will have its feelings hurt because it creates obvious timing problems and leads to shoulder injury...
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by King Richard on Sep 13, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Demel animations
Not sure how well you’ll really be able to get a sense of Demel’s motion but here are a couple animations. The first is 1/10 of a second between frames while the second is slowed down to 1/50 of a second.
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
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by Flashfire on Sep 13, 2009 4:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Ahem. Second one is half a second per frame ;-)
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
by Flashfire on Sep 13, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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