Twins vs. White Sox
On September 25th Jon Wrolstad and I attended a great baseball game at the Metrodome.
I think Jon set the scene and described the game the best...
"Okay, I have to set the stage for this post... Mike and I are big Twins fans and with 6 games left in the season we trailed the White Sox by 2.5 games. The Twins had the White Sox at home for 3 games and if they won all 3 they would take the division lead and be playoff bound. So I called Mike and said if they win the first 2 games we should go to the 3rd game. The Twins won the first game. The second game was close and it wasn't on TV here so I was "watching" it on ESPN.com GameCast. Before I even knew who won (GameCast was going really slow) Mike called with the good news, we won! So we got tickets for the 3rd game. We go to the game, it starts off a little slow. Then we go to get beer and hot dogs and the Twins are down 1-6 when we come back. Apparently the Twins only like to win when we are watching them. So it was the fourth inning and we were down, but Mike and I remained hopeful. We slowly start coming back and in the 8th inning Gomez and Span tie up the game with a single and a triple. The crowd is going nuts at this point. Top of the 9th and 10th we bring in Joe Nathan. The White Sox can do nothing. Bottom of the 10th Casilla drove in Punto to win the game and take first place in the division. All we need to do is beat the hapless Royals and we are in the playoffs and have a lot of momentum behind us.... At least that is how it should have gone, but we ended up in a one-game playoff with the White Sox that is at Chicago due to our poor coin-flip calling abilities and didn't make the playoffs. Despite the rest of the season, it was the best baseball game that I have ever been to. I'm already looking forward to next year!"
I think Jon set the scene and described the game the best...
"Okay, I have to set the stage for this post... Mike and I are big Twins fans and with 6 games left in the season we trailed the White Sox by 2.5 games. The Twins had the White Sox at home for 3 games and if they won all 3 they would take the division lead and be playoff bound. So I called Mike and said if they win the first 2 games we should go to the 3rd game. The Twins won the first game. The second game was close and it wasn't on TV here so I was "watching" it on ESPN.com GameCast. Before I even knew who won (GameCast was going really slow) Mike called with the good news, we won! So we got tickets for the 3rd game. We go to the game, it starts off a little slow. Then we go to get beer and hot dogs and the Twins are down 1-6 when we come back. Apparently the Twins only like to win when we are watching them. So it was the fourth inning and we were down, but Mike and I remained hopeful. We slowly start coming back and in the 8th inning Gomez and Span tie up the game with a single and a triple. The crowd is going nuts at this point. Top of the 9th and 10th we bring in Joe Nathan. The White Sox can do nothing. Bottom of the 10th Casilla drove in Punto to win the game and take first place in the division. All we need to do is beat the hapless Royals and we are in the playoffs and have a lot of momentum behind us.... At least that is how it should have gone, but we ended up in a one-game playoff with the White Sox that is at Chicago due to our poor coin-flip calling abilities and didn't make the playoffs. Despite the rest of the season, it was the best baseball game that I have ever been to. I'm already looking forward to next year!"
posted by Mr. Anderson at 1:36 PM
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