A most improbable way to lose a game

[countryboy]

Ok first and foremost, I thought I had a video saved to share, but apparently not due to unknown user error.

Anyways...

I'm playing the Rays in my franchise. We fall behind early on and watch the deficit swell to 5-0 heading into the 8th inning. We get two runs in the 8th thanks to a Victor Scott bloop single that scores Jackson Holliday and Chase Davis. Luke Weaver holds the Rays bats in check in the bottom of the inning to keep the score 5-2 heading into the 9th. We tie the game at 5 after a Nolan Gorman 3 run bomb with 1 out but fail to take the lead. In the bottom of the 9th the Rays have a man on 3rd with 2 outs. Daulton Rushing hits a groundball down the first base line that Alec Burleson is going to be able to get too but the ball hits the first base bag, deflects back towards home plate and before anyone can react to get it, Rushing reaches first safely and the run scores for one of the most improbable walk-off wins in baseball.

I couldn't do anything but shake my head and chuckle. Of the ways to lose a ball game, that one isn't likely to be replicated anytime soon.

[toyo301985]

My bro, I understand you.

I can't tell you how many times I get upset by losing a game like that one you describe.
But I'll always remember a very annoying one and its outcome

It was a summer, and I was on my teens years, when my baseball fanaticism was strong. It still is, but as you grow up, other things will take over. I was playing the ALCS against the Yankees (I'm a Red Sox fan BTW). They beat me in the first three games and little by little I won the nex two. In the sixth game, they started winning 12-1. Little by little, I made up for that lead, until the ninth inning, I was down 10-12. Then, the miracle happened!! I tied the game and took it to extra innings (no second base man rule those years). Several extra innings passed without incident, and in others they scored and then I tied the game. Until in the 15th inning, they walked off me... 😭 I was so angry that I even got a heartburn. And the worst part was that the next day I was going on a vacation trip with my family with that stomach upset. Anyway, sorry for the long history, and I understand your feeling, bro.