Bloggystyle -- The Greatest

Over at Fitz, all the Cards fans are getting nostalgic about a regular season game last year in which Albert Pujols had a good game and the Cards beat the Cubs in Wrigley. I don't like the Cubs any more than any other non Cubs fan, so I don't mind when they lose. In fact, the only thing that can make a Brewers fan complacent about professional baseball is to see a team from Chicago suffer that much worse.

Anyway, Team Fitz is talking about this regular season game, dubbed the "Pujols Game," like it was one of the greatest baseball games of all time. In fact, Team Fitz initially published this post 6 months ago and decided to republish it again this weekend since the Cards-Cubs are playing each other. I probably wouldn't have found the game that amazing the first time, let alone the fact that I couldn't make sense out of some of it.

The score was 8-2 going into the top of the 6th inning, when the Cardinals turned it on. With simple small-ball tactics, the Cardinals were able to score 3 runs and make the score 8-6.

Finally, in the bottom of the 9th, Albert Pujols hit a 2-run home run to make the score 10-8, followed by a Reggie Sanders home run to make it 11-8. But the game wasn't over yet, as the Cubs threatened in the bottom of the ninth.

Pujols finished the game 5 for 5 with 5 RBI, 4 runs scored, and 3 home runs.

But here's my favorite part of the post: "The game propelled the Cardinals ahead in the NL Central, and in 2004 the Cardinals made their first trip to the World Series since 1987."

If you look at the box score, we'll see that the game merely propelled the Cardinals 10 games ahead of the NL Central, on their way to winning the division by 13 over the Astros, 16 over the Cubs, and 38 over the Brewers. I'm sure it must be fun to watch a World Series caliber baseball team, but if you're going to get excited about Cardinals victories in games in which Pujols has a good game, then you'll be excited about 100 times a year.

So let's talk about a real special regular season game. I'm talking about the "Lyle Overbay Game."



Instead of having to republish a post about a baseball game that happened over a year ago probably to temper the pessimism of the World Series sweep, The Lyle Overbay was one of the greatest regular season Brewers games in history, and it only happened yesterday.

As opposed to making the division lead 10 games instead of 8, this one has serious ramifications because it could be the turning point in the Brewers season, as we gun for our first 500 season in 12 years.

Coming off a downer the night before, Lyle Overbay took over last night, going 3 for 5 with 2 homers, one of which was a grandslam, finishing with 6 RBIs and 3 runs scored against the mighty Cincinatti Reds. Much like the "Pujols Game" had So Taguchi tie the game for the Cards, the Brewers also saw Geoff Jenkins extend a 16 game hitting streak and Carlos Lee retake the MLB RBI lead with 3 of his own to get to 82.

Now THAT's an important game.