there's no telling where Cliff Lee will be in 2011, but I am sure the Rangers new ownership will be very helpful to keep him from leaving after this year with a good contract, because everyone knows the Yanks are sure as hell going to try to lure him away.
But as of now I am sure he will be a Ranger in 2011.
That night game at Fenway was great, Bengie got introduced to the 'Antlers' real quick with his 'ripping of the time-space continuum' cycle:
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/20...ace-continuum/
Bengie Molina hits for cycle, creates rip in time-space continuum
We have witnessed many unlikely events already this season — Stephen Strasburg striking out 14 in his major league debut, four no-hitters, two perfect games, one almost perfect game, the first-place San Diego Padres and the National League actually winning an All-Star Game — but I can say without hesitation that Bengie Molina‘s cycle against the Red Sox on Friday night was the most improbable of them all.
Molina was already 3-for-3 with a single, a double and a go-ahead grand slam when he came up to the plate in the top of the eighth inning. That’s a great night by anybody’s standards, but Molina wasn’t done. He proceeded to crank a long drive to distant center field, not far from where he hit his grand slam in the fifth inning. After the ball ricocheted off Eric Patterson‘s glove and into Fenway’s famous nook in right center field, the notoriously slow-footed Molina legged out his sixth career triple and successfully completed the first cycle by a catcher since Chad Moeller on April 27, 2004.
Even more incredible, Molina is the eighth player and the first catcher to hit a grand slam and complete the cycle in the same game. It happened.
If you haven’t seen it already, I recommend watching the video footage here.
Here’s what Molina told T.R. Sullivan of MLB.com:
“This means a lot,” Molina said. “I’m not a stats guy; everybody who
knows me knows that.
That’s an individual thing, but being one of the
slowest guys in the world, and being criticized for it all my career, to
be able to do something like that really makes me feel good.”
The fact that Molina was forced to leave the game immediately after the triple with a tight right quadriceps is rather appropriate. It’s like he was
punished for messing with the cosmos or something.
10-25-2010, 07:23 PM
I watched the video again today. He's so darn cute when he does the little antlers thing after his double. Just adorable. If I didn't already like him, I'm pretty sure that would have made me a fan!
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