Meanwhile, in the baseball world, the Orioles/Yankees played a truly epic five-game series to determine which of them would get into the League Championship. [Can include usual grousing here about how the seasons have gotten too long, going into November is ridiculous, remember tjhe lyrics from a certain Broadway show, etc.]
Game three of the series went 12 innings, and ended in a Yankee victory, putting them up two ganes to one. Raul Ibanez was the hero.
Game four was another marathon. This one went 13 innings, and this time the Birds eeked it out, on a RBI double from the bat of J.J. Hardy, to make the final score 2 to 1, and to tie the series at 2 games each.
It is fair to surmise that after those two back-to-back marathons, both bullpens were exhausted. Something had to give.
Unfortunately (for my personal biases) it was Baltimore that "gave." I grew up a Boston Red Sox fan, so my natural reaction in such situations is that the team to root for is the team that isn't wearing pinstripes.
Yankees won the final game of the five in a "normal" nine inning manner, 3 runs to 1.
Ah, well, I would have scroipted it differently for a movie, but reality doesn't have screenwriters. Thanks for the two instantly classic games, guys.
Fortunately, for us anti-Yankee folks, the Orioles had not strived in vain. They had softened up their pin-striped foes, who went up against the Detroit Tigers still bedraggled from the experience. Tigets swept them in the League Championship series in four straiught games, with a lopsided score in at least the last of those games.
Yeah, Tigers! Yeah, Orioles too!
Game three of the series went 12 innings, and ended in a Yankee victory, putting them up two ganes to one. Raul Ibanez was the hero.
Game four was another marathon. This one went 13 innings, and this time the Birds eeked it out, on a RBI double from the bat of J.J. Hardy, to make the final score 2 to 1, and to tie the series at 2 games each.
It is fair to surmise that after those two back-to-back marathons, both bullpens were exhausted. Something had to give.
Unfortunately (for my personal biases) it was Baltimore that "gave." I grew up a Boston Red Sox fan, so my natural reaction in such situations is that the team to root for is the team that isn't wearing pinstripes.
Yankees won the final game of the five in a "normal" nine inning manner, 3 runs to 1.
Ah, well, I would have scroipted it differently for a movie, but reality doesn't have screenwriters. Thanks for the two instantly classic games, guys.
Fortunately, for us anti-Yankee folks, the Orioles had not strived in vain. They had softened up their pin-striped foes, who went up against the Detroit Tigers still bedraggled from the experience. Tigets swept them in the League Championship series in four straiught games, with a lopsided score in at least the last of those games.
Yeah, Tigers! Yeah, Orioles too!
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