Home Run Derby

Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Lance Cormier got his ass absolutely torched by the Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano tonight.

And I don’t mean your average 3 for 3 night against a pitcher.

I mean that Alfonso Soriano made Lance Cormier his bitch and made him like it.

Going into tonight’s game, Soriano was already trouble for Cormier and the Braves. Soriano has been heating up as of late (batting .469 with 3 HR in June before tonight’s game) and the Cubs are heating up right along with him.

And tonight, Soriano hit three Home Runs off Cormier. Never a doubt for any of them either.

That makes Soriano 5 for 5 against Cormier this week with (get this) four (4) Home Runs and a Triple. That’s merely a slugging percentage of 4.400 !

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Lance Cormier is probably hugging his teddy bear and asking mommy Cormier to make the bad Dominican go away …

Nothing could be more exciting than the potentially last at-bat of a no-hitter in progress, right? 

Let’s go to the stands in Oakland … and the video.

I love YouTube.

Maybe Curt Schilling won’t shake off his catcher next time.

“We get two outs, and I was sure, and I had a plan, and I shook Tek off,” Schilling said.  

“And I get a big ‘What if?’ for the rest of my life”