[PilotMan]

Game #1
Rick Rhoden v. David Palmer
5-3 W over the Expos
LA takes a 1 game lead on a 4 run 2^nd inning on a Mike Scioscia single and a Steve Sax triple. It would stay like that with Rhoden pitching his shutout into the 8^th inning. With 2 out Incaviglia committed an error that kept the inning going. From there Ken Howell gave up a single. He gave way to Niedenfeur, who gave up a hit, who gave way to Howe, who gave up a hit and suddenly it was 4-3. Pena came on and struck out Gary Carter to finally end it. In the 9^th, Quiz came on for the Expos. He walks Scioscia, who is moved over on a Smalley ground out. Steve Sax doubles him in to give us an insurance run. John Franco pitches a 1-2-3 9^th to give us homefield and a 1-0 lead. Ray Knight went 3-4 and Sax went 2-5 with 3 RBI's.


Game #2
John Denny v. Charlie Liebrandt
2-0 L to the Expos
Liebrandt pitched a perfect game through 5 and a no hitter through 6. LA could only manage 2 hits the entire game. John Denny walked 5, and pitched 5. His night was cut short by a high pitch count. Niedenfeur served up a HR to Gary Carter in the 8^th. Liebrandt would go the distance for the 2 hit shutout.


The Blue Jays took game 1 over the Angels 6-1.


The Angels took game 2 6-4, thanks to home runs by Garvey, Dave Henderson, Darryl Porter and Dick Schofield.


Game #3
Fernando Valenzuela v. Rick Reuschel
4-2 L to the Expos
And now we're in a hole. LA's bats went silent for another 6 innings. Montreal got started when Andres Galarraga hit a 2-run shot in the first inning to put the Expos up right away. Lou Whitaker would add another 2-run shot in the 3^rd to give them the winning margin. Valenzuela with both parts hot and cold, which is to say he was a hot mess. He pitched 6 and allowed 5 hits, 4 runs, 5 walks and 7 K's. He was all over. The bats didn't do anything until the 7^th when they got 2, but easily could have gotten more. Bream and Incaviglia would score on a pop fly by Lynn and a single by Stubbs. Bream and Ray Knight went 2-4. The Dodger bullpen pitched well, with Beattie going 2 scoreless and Niedenfeur 1 scoreless. The Expos lead 2-1.


Game #4
Frank Tanana v. Bryn Smith
6-3 W over the Expos
Frank Tanana did his thing today and by did his thing I mean he served up a HR in the first inning. Because today it was Galarraga, who went 4-4 and hit another HR. With the Expos up 2-0, they went up another in the 3^rd on another Galarraga hit. Down 3-0 and without a hit, things were feeling grim, when LA found some life and put a run on the board. They would get another in the 4^th on a Fred Lynn HR cutting the lead to 3-2. In the 5^th though, it looked like old school Dodgers. With 2 outs Inky singled, Lynn singled, Knight singled scoring 1. Tony Phillips opened the game up with a 2 run double.
Tanana ended up going 7 and striking out 8, while Franco got the final 6 outs for the save. The Series is tied 2-2.


Toronto goes up 2-1 on a 3-2 win at home.


Game #5
Rick Rhoden v. David Palmer
10-2 L to the Expos
So.....the good news? Stubbs went 3-4 and had 2 RBI's? Sax who went 3-4? That's about it. We scored 2 in the first after Sax bunted for a hit, stole 2^nd, stole 3^rd. Lynn walked and Stubbs singled home them both. That's the way it started, and it was good. The Expos got one back in the 3^rd, then in the 6^th it started to unravel. Tim Raines hit a 1-0 pitch to left field 348 feet, putting the Expos up by 1. It was still close until the 8^th. With Rhoden still in there, Pettis lead off with a single, and Raines hit an 0-1 pitch 382 ft into the Dodgers bullpen. After that it only went down hill. Let's just say that it ended with a Mike Greenwell grand slam in the 9^th. So the Expos scored 7 runs in the 8^th and 8^th innings. It really was only 3-2 until that. Raines and Greenwell combined to go 5-10 with 4 runs, 9 RBI's and 3 HR's. Damn.


The dark reality that we are going to fall short once again is setting in. The hottest team in baseball is going to fall to the biggest juggernaut dynasty in baseball. We will need to win 2 in a row on the road against the team with the best record in the NL. Good luck to us.


Toronto beats the Angels one more time, 6-3, to take a commanding 3-1 lead. Looking like another all Canada final right now.


And it is Toronto....a 3-0 win behind 6.1 scoreless, 2 hit innings, by Len Barker gives the Blue Jays the AL Pennant. This is the 3^rd straight World Series for the Blue Jays.


Game #6
John Denny v. Charlie Liebrandt
8-7 L to the Expos
That's it for this year. We had this in the bag and Lasorda left Denny in there far too long. LA was up 4-0 after 2. That should have been plenty. That should have given us the win. We gave back 2 in the 3^rd, but got them both back in the 6^th. Up 6-2 heading into the 6^th Denny was victimized by 2 Dodger errors and the Expos scored 4 times to tie it up. LA would go up in the 8^th with a run, and we were 6 out from the W and seeing game 7. Denny again, started the inning and after an out, a double and a walk, Franco came in. Vance Law reached on an error and the bases were loaded, only 1 out. Gorman Thomas walked to tie it up, then Gary Pettis flew out and scored Molitor to put the Expos up by 1. In the 9^th, Roy Smalley worked the count and fought to get a single. Sax came up and Quiz got him to ground out into a double play. The air was gone. Tony Phillips struck out to end it.


What a disgusting loss after all those wins at the end of the year.


The World Series will be the Blue Jays v. the Expos in the All-Canada Bowl.