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paranoid
Garland has one of those five-pitch innings in the second, if you set aside everything that happened after he ran the count full to 3B Doug Mientkiewicz. How I wish we could set all that aside, too, 'cause Mientkie's three-base hit on that 3-2 pitch was just an ominous sign of things to come. Catcher Rob Hammock would follow with a hard-hit two-bagger to the right-center field gap, only his third hit in about thirty thousand at-bats against us this season. Young outfielder Dan Gottlieb, the eight hitter, worked out a walk, so I guess I should be grateful that Garland settled down after that, stringing together three outs on a sacrifice and two fly outs to right, allowing just one more run to score. But it's hard to be grateful when you're down two-oh. I guess Seattle would know about that.
Ohka pitches a painless one-two-three second inning and even though I know logically that the odds are heavily in our favor with a two-oh lead in the series, that's the first time the thought crosses my mind that we are on the way to blowing this thing. Mark it down.
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