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Old 04-27-2017, 08:02 PM   #45
PilotMan
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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ALCS
Game 5: Blue Jays win 5-4 to take a 3-2 lead. A 5-run 5th for the Jays and a Phil Garner homer was all they would need. Luis Leal topped Viola again. The Twins scored 3 in the bottom of the 9th, but came up just short. Except for game 1, every ALCS game has been a 1 run game.


Game 7
10/10
Pena v. Sanderson
6-5 W over the Expos
HOLY SHIT! This game caps a series for the ages for Dodger fans! I fully came into this game thinking that Pena couldn't possibly get roughed up two games in a row, and boy was I wrong. He was touched for another 10 hits in 6 innings. That means he allowed 22 hits and 9 runs in 12 innings. He barely allowed 7 per 9 for the season. This game lived up to everything that the last one did. Hearts were pounding, tears were flowing as this game looked to be over. LA drew first blood again in the first inning when Mike Marshall singled home UL Washington from 2nd. Montreal answered right back in the bottom of the inning when Raines scored on a Yount double play. Top of the 2nd and LA fought on again. This time it was Mike Scioscia again with another opposite field homer of 392ft to put LA up 2-1. Pena kept em off the board until the 4th. Gary Carter singled, then a George Hendrick triple scored him. Ron LeFlore was intentionally walked for Sanderson who made them pay with a hard liner to right that scored Hendrick. Raines then singled another run home before the inning would end. 4-2 Montreal.
Top 6 LA gets one back. Randolph leads off with a walk followed by a Marshall single. An Evans single scored Randolph and it looked like we were heading for a big inning. Scioscia was hit by a pitch to load them up before Smalley struck out swinging. 4-3 Montreal. That's how it would stay until late. In the bottom of the 8th , with Tanana on the mound, we just needed to keep it close. Instead George Hendrick took a 2-0 pitch into the left field bleachers and put the Expos up 5-3. Tanana struck out the side but the damage was done. Hearts sank. Hendrick had gone 4-4 with a triple and a homer and would probably be the series MVP because of it. That was it. Reardon was coming on again and there's no way we were coming back on the road. Top of the 9th, down 2. Best closer in baseball against the bottom of the lineup. Scioscia lead off with a single. Smalley flew out to left, 1 out. Ron Kittle pinch hit and slapped a 1-2 pitch into left to put runners on first and second. The go ahead run was at the plate. UL Washington kept the hit parade going with an unlikely 1-1, line drive into right. Scioscia scored and we're only down 1 with 1 out. Randolph came up next and Reardon was in trouble. He had him down 0-2 and then walked him on 4 straight to load the bases again. Marshall was up next, worked an 8 pitch at bat then knocked a hard ball threw the drawn in infield. That scored Kittle from third and we were tied. I flew up out of my chair. Evans came up next. He hit a fly ball to left and it was deep enough that Washington was able to get home to put us into the lead. The crowd was stunned. That's 2 games in a row where we beat up Reardon in the 9th. Murphy flew out to end it, and Steve Howe came on for the 9th. Howe got Harrah to ground out, then Raines (again, always Raines, he's like the devil out there) singled. He didn't steal and Dawson came up. Howe got Hawk to hit a hard grounder to short, and the 6-4-3 double play was on. Grich squeezed it for the out and all that Champagne and those new shirts and baseball caps that said EXPOS 1984 NLCS CHAMPS got boxed up and sent to Ethiopia. Mike Scioscia hit .360 with 2 homers, and kept Raines partially in check. He was the NLCS MVP. Fuck Yeah.


We'll be facing the Blue Jays, because we love traveling to Canada. Dave Stieb allowed 2 hits over 7 innings and struck out 8 in a 4-1 win over the Twins. That's another heartbreaking ALCS loss for the Twins. Mike Schmidt was the MVP.
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