One More Day

Who WAS that giving up runs?

I had Yankees-Rays on the radio, Orioles-Red Sox on Gameday, and tracked the other games on Gameday's scoreboard.  

The Tigers took an early 4-0 lead Then, runs kept appearing next to CLE on the board. One, one, two, TWO; the score was now 9-6 with two more at bats for the Indians. 

Max Scherzer allowed the first four, and Phil Coke the last TWO on one-third of an inning. 

Ben Wah and the villified Ryan Perry came in to restore order, and Val Verde got the save. 

Miguel Cabrera went 2 for 5, is hitting .343 and is one game away from becoming the American League batting champ. 

In Anaheim, the Rangers won to hang onto their one game edge for Division Series home field. 

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The Red Sox won 8-7, but the O's had the winning run at the plate in the ninth.

Rookie catcher Ryan Lavarnway, a September call-up playing for the injured Varitek and Salta La Macchia, homered twice, drove in four, and saved the Sox from the further embarrassment of falling one game bacj for the AL wild card. 

If the D-Rays do make it, one play will make it possible. 

In the sixth, with the score even at two, the Yankees loaded the bases with none out. They seemed ready to put the game out of reach. Russell Martin then grounded into an around-the-horn triple play. Inning over, game stays tied, and the D-Rays go on to win 5-3. 

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HAHAHA BRAVES !!!!

7-1 LOO-sers, at home to the Phillies, while the Cardinals spot the Astros five in Houston and come back to win 13-6. 

So both wild card races are tied with one day left. That's never happened before, in the Era Of Guaranteed Excitement. 

Wouldn't it be great if this happened every year? 

Well, it could, because baseball's Special Committee for On-Field Matters wants to add a second wild card team in each league and a one-game play-in between the two wild cards to determine each league's prettiest bridesmaid, and assure the fans of two Game 163s and TV of two must-see baseball games. But can it be done with the World Series still ending before November? (Not really, unless the regular season is shortened.) 

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Hate the Braves while we can, because the word from reliable media sources is that, once Chipper Jones retires, the Braves will be replaced on the list of teams that have to lose before a Carrie Jacobs Bond night can be entered in the record book. The adulterous Mr. Jones, with his stupid nickname and aw-shucks persona, and the tomahawk chop, were the two reason for hating the Braves. But he'll be gone some day, and every team has dumb sheeplike fans who do dumb things at games.