This game, in its early stages of development, became a sort of foot race, between the Pretenders' fragile 1-0 lead, the rain, (hurry up!), the tarp, and the fifth inning.
The 1-0 lead was first to go.The Red Sox peckitty-pecked four off JV in the fourth inning. Now that the Pretenders have adopted a revised approach that de-emphasizes the scoring of runs, this wasn't a good sign.
The fifth inning won. Actually, it rained cats and dogs for about three innings, but in the sixth, with the P's up and the bases loaded, THEN they pull the plug on the game. (And NO official protest.) Out came the TARP (Troubled Athleticevent Recovery Program). When it rains, it pours; truer words were never spoken and they applied again tonight. In the record book, it goes as a rain-shortened 4-1 loss.
The loss leaves the Pretenders 2.5 out in the Central, and 2.5 back in the Bridesmaid standings, where the A's and Orioles are tied. There exists another baseball state of being, called Look Out Below, for teams who are sliding backwards from Wonderfulness and out of Bridesmaid, headed back downhill to Official Mediocrity.
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