If you turned it off after the Tigers put the winning run on third in the ninth and left him there, or when Boom-Boom Ben-Wah gave up two homers in the tenth, or when the Tigers were down by three and down to their last out with the bases empty, then hang your head, Ye Of Little Faith. For, as Dr. Lawrence P. Berra, Professor Emeritus of Baseball, says: c'est n'est pas fini until c'est fini.
Austin Jackson did triple leading off the ninth, with the score even at five. Josh Tomlin struck out Omar Infante, and issued intentional walks to Cabrera and Fielder. Quentin Berry, the last guy you'd think would ground into a double play, did so, first to home and back.
Boom-Boom did throw the gopher balls, his seventh and eighth in fifteen innings, about one every other appearance (yikes) to Travis Hafner and Ezequiel Carrera in the Tribe tenth. Jack Hanahan then singled, and Lou Marson doubled him in. Messers Price and Dickerson, with the Tigers down by three, had this one already in the loss column. If only Jackson had scored, they lamented ... this game, if they look back at the season for one game they really needed to win ...
Chris Perez retired the first two Tigers in the bottom tenth. Then, he lost the strike zone. He walked the eight hitter, Alex Avila. Andy Dirks hit for Danny Worth and walked. Jackson doubled in Avila. Infante hit a flare that scored Dirks and Jackson. Tie game, Cabrera up, but Perez was the guy; he's the closer, it's up to him to get out of messes like this.
Cabrera hit one to deep left center ... awaaaaaaaaaaaay back ... GAWN !!!
Simply amazing, Dickerson said. The most improbable, un-bee-leevable ... Beyond Godhead, observed Your Blogger. The kind of game they remember years later, like the Buckner game, the Sandberg game, The Impossible Return (played twelve years ago today).
If you wrote this game as a screenplay and submitted it, they'd throw it away and not even use your SASE to send a form rejection. Things just don't happen like this. Not believable.
The Indians, one out away from avoiding some negative history, instead made it. The loss was their ninth of the road trip, and marked the first time in 112 years of Tribe baseball that they lost every game on a trip of at least nine games.
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