It is now 12:40 a.m. CDT in the Midwest and I have just finished with my addiction of watching MLB.TV. I could au pine about how wonderful it is to be watching six games at once on the mosaic feature they have, but I will spare everyone the details.
It’s not much of a secret…I am a Chicago White Sox fan. When I follow baseball on the evenings where I don’t have anything going on, I not only pay attention to how the White Sox are doing, but also how the Twins are performing in their contest that selected evening.
The White Sox game started at seven o’clock while the Twins game started at nine, but they seemed intertwined the entire evening. The White Sox trailed most of their game, 6-1 in the 5th in fact, but slowly made their comeback. The Twins had a 2-0 lead early in their ballgame against the Mariners. Then things got weird.
As Alexei Ramirez came up for the White Sox as they trailed 6-5 in the 8th, the Mariners were mounted a comeback themselves in the 3rd. The Mariners took the lead 4-2 over Minnesota just one minute before the White Sox tied things up against the Tigers. The situation is not out of the ordinary. It can certainly be coincidence that the Sox had two instances of fate go their way at the same time. As the evening drew on fate would turn against them.
The Tigers came to the plate in the bottom of the 14th tied up at six. After Detroit got a man on, Placido Polanco came to the plate. He pounded a fastball over the left field fence from an overworked Matt Thornton to give the Tigers an 8-6 lead. About a minute later, the Twins capped a four-run rally in the top of the 8th to go up 7-6 on the Mariners. WHAT?!?!?! How can fortunes change this dramatically twice in one evening? This never happens! Once is coincidence, twice is a pattern. It certainly didn’t look good as I thought the White Sox were going to continue their slide and fall a full game behind the Minnesota Twins…then the unthinkable happened.
There’s an old saying that things happen in three’s. The “Baseball Gods” had something brewing. The White Sox started things in the bottom of the 14th with an Orlando Cabrera single. The line started moving, which was aided by a Tigers error, to the point where Nick Swisher came to the plate. The same line started moving over 2000 miles away. Ichiro and Raul Ibanez singled to put two on and two out for Seattle. Meanwhile in Chicago, Nick Swisher took a swing at a 2-1 fastball and blasted it into orbit over the center field fence. Jubilation as the White Sox win the game 10-8…now it’s time to turn my attention to the Twins game.
Courtesy:chicagosports.com
Thirty seconds, yes, thirty seconds after Swisher’s game-winning home run Jose Lopez doubles to left for Seattle off Joe Nathan. Ichiro scores, Ibanez scores…8-7 Mariners!! What the hell is going on here? It happened again!
Thankfully the M’s held-off the Twins on this night. While I love baseball as much as anyone and tonight was a fun night, as a White Sox fan, it’s not one that I care to relive any time soon. I don’t know if I can handle too much more of this.
1 Comment
August 14, 2008 at 11:30 am
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