Uribe, I Ribe, We All Ribe
As if to prove that the Dodgers can destroy other people’s dreams as well as those of their fans, Juan Uribe — whose batting average is so low, it’s like he’s still working for the Giants — ended a Padre no-hitter last night after 8 2/3 innings.
The Padres have never had a no-hitter. They came within one pitch.
I’d feel bad for them, but I know too many Padre fans.
(Update: As Cosmonaut Snell has rightly pointed out, the Padres were as scoreless as the Dodgers up to the ninth, so striking out Uribe would have ended the inning, not the game. But the Dodgers, having survived their usual fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth inning collapses, undoubtedly would have given up a run in the tenth. Because they’re the Dodgers. So let’s assume that without Uribe’s hit, the Padres would have had a no-hitter and that I’m not an idiot.)
[Image courtesy of the LA Times.]
