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Originally Posted by cknox

...it's finally over.

Except it's not.

Of course, 'it', in this case, is the crying. Not the game -- the game's over, but the crying's not. Sorry, hope that didn't get your hopes up...but it was fourteen to one and it's the Pale Hose. Why would you ever get your hopes up??

Luckily, the pain's mind-numbing, but doesn't last as long as that horrific seventh inning. Top of the eighth is where it all goes down. Vazquez and Kennedy knock singles through the infield to give us a quick pair of runners at the corners for Maggs Ordonez. Lookin' good, right? Third pitch, on a 2-0 count, he takes a hack and rips a one-hopper to the left side of the second base bag. Playing at double play depth, Nomah snares it cleanly and tags the base to force out Kennedy and then slings it down to Millar at first to nail Buddha with a few hours to spare. Then the play-by-play spits out something remarkable, something I'd never seen before.

"Vazquez hesitates...
Now he's going home!
Millar fires home...
Vazquez slides...
Wilson with the tag..."

Well, you know the rest, don't you? And, hell, two men on, no one out -- if you're not going to score, may as well be because the number three hitter hit into a 6-3-2 triple play!! So instead of watching Maggs pop out, Frank Thomas strike out for the thirty-ninth time in fourteen at-bats, and Raul Gonzalez fly out to left, as probably was bound to happen, I got to see my first triple play in any medium. Not a terrible trade-off...but, boy, we're horrifyingly bad, aren't we?

A Gonzalez walk, Jeremy Reed double, and Eric Munson sacrifice fly get us a ninth inning run to make the final deficit twelve, also allowing us to take the lead over Boston -- in ninth inning runs in this series. 1-0. Hey, if we're going to get slobberknockered, may as well do it with a smile.

CHW 2 BOS 14

WP: B.H. Kim (1-0) - 6 IP, 4 H, 1 R
LP: E. Loaiza (0-1) - 5.2 IP, 9 H, 5 R

Mr. Mediocre: It may not fit with the little sub-title, but how could I not pick Mr. Triple Play? Our right fielder walked and scored a run, not exactly a mediocre feat for a Pale Hose club that's scored four times in three games!! But Maggs also managed to tally a '1' in the column that's buried on page 472 of the Stats Major League Handbook -- GITP.