It's party time again on the Islets of Langerhans*

*Still located in a pancreas near you I used that headline, more or less, when Ryan Langerhans hit a game-ender against Tampa Bay in the 11th inning on Aug. 7, and I'm never one to shy away from beating a good joke into the ground. Or even a bad joke. In that game, Langerhans entered the game as a pinch-runner in the seventh. This time, he took over in right field in the ninth after Ken Griffey Jr. pinch-hit for third baseman Jack Hannahan in the bottom of the eighth. Bill Hall moved from right to third, and Langerhans became the right-fielder. Don Wakamatsu noted that the addition of Hall gave him the versatility to make a move like that with Ichiro unavailable because of a calf injury. Read more...