Gallagher and Murton have nice debuts

[Oscar Zamora]

Nice piece on Baseball Tonight showing that Sean Gallagher pitched well in his debut for the A's and Matt Murton had an RBI.

[imb]

(WE'VE) MADE A HUGE MISTAKE

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

Damn you Billy Beane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Little Slide Rooter]

7 innings, 2 hits, 2 runs, 3 BB, 7 SO. Not bad. Not bad at all. Hopefully Harden can give us something similar.

[Derwood]

oh look, they batted Murton 2nd (i.e. exactly what we've said he should be doing for like 2 years now)

[Derwood]

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[weis21]

(WE'VE) MADE A HUGE MISTAKE

Cowherd was right, we just got robbed! :banghead:

[Shilzzz]

Murton was meant to be an A.

[rawaction]

Nice piece on Baseball Tonight showing that Sean Gallagher pitched well in his debut for the A's and Matt Murton had an RBI.

 

Murton had 2 RBI and a great running catch against the wall. Gallagher will do well in that park. I think Eric Patterson will be a real good fit for them too when he comes up.

[Mizzou]

Murton also made 4 outs, two of which came with 2 runners on base. I hope he does great out there though, I've always thought he deserved better than what he had here.

[Roast]

It looks really weird seeing them in those uniforms.

 

Oh well, Best of luck to the both of you!

[Bote McBoteface]

The uniforms actually look quite nice on both of them, I think.

[BigbadB]

I watched the first 2 innings of that game. Gallagher was dealing. Murton grounded out to short his first two times up. They showed a Rich Harden A's commercial between the 1st and 2nd innings. Whoops!

[Andy]

It looks really weird seeing them in those uniforms.

 

Oh well, Best of luck to the both of you!

Murton looks like he should've been in that uniform all along.

 

(The green one anyway. That black one looks kind of dumb.)

[UMFan83]

A's are now my favorite AL team for the time being. Both Murton and Gallagher are players I invested a lot of time following, and its great to see they are getting the opportunity to play. Looks like Murton's stay with the A's might be really short though.

[Soul]

3, 4 years from now Gally will be a mainstay in the middle of that rotation and you'll be hearing comments to the effect of "gee, I guess Beane didn't get ripped off in that Harden trade after all."

 

 

....but you heard it on nsbb years earlier.

[BigbadB]

3, 4 years from now Gally will be a mainstay in the middle of that rotation and you'll be hearing comments to the effect of "gee, I guess Beane didn't get ripped off in that Harden trade after all."

 

 

....but you heard it on nsbb years earlier.

 

I think Oakland's park can shave a whole run off a pitcher's ERA. As good as Duscherer, Smith, Eveland, Blanton have shown so far, I don't think they'd be nearly as impressive if they were pitching in the NL Central.

 

However, I'm hoping Harden will be just as dominant in a Cub uniform as he has been with the A's.

[Schwarber Fan]

It looks really weird seeing them in those uniforms.

 

Oh well, Best of luck to the both of you!

Murton looks like he should've been in that uniform all along.

 

(The green one anyway. That black one looks kind of dumb.)

 

And how can a guy named Sean Gallagher not look right in green?

[anabiono]

good for them

 

gallagher is an awesome kid, but he had to go

 

murton on the other hand wasn't going to play here

 

i am pulling for them big time

 

i wonder if i will still pull for murton if he plays on the rays though :-k

[Keener98]

A's are now my favorite AL team for the time being. Both Murton and Gallagher are players I invested a lot of time following, and its great to see they are getting the opportunity to play. Looks like Murton's stay with the A's might be really short though.

 

Id have no problem with Murton going to Tampa. Tampa is an easy team to root for, and with Murton on there just makes it even better.

[MemphisVol]

The A's have always been my second favorite team, going back to "the Bash Brothers." If we had to lose Gallagher, I'm glad he went there.

[TheDude]

Gallagher looks right at home in an A's uniform. They never have a shortage of can't-quite-grow-facial-hair -but-this-is-what-I-got-anyway guys out there.

[Clem Fandango]

I am really really really really happy for the both of them. I hope they have all the success they can get over there.

[Derwood]

3, 4 years from now Gally will be a mainstay in the middle of that rotation and you'll be hearing comments to the effect of "gee, I guess Beane didn't get ripped off in that Harden trade after all."

 

and then we'll trade for him at the deadline :ninja:

[CubbieBum]

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