[Amazin69]

(EDIT: this was the 3rd AB; I'm still on delay. Which lets me skip the commercials, but I lose momentum when I pause to type these screeds.)

Clemson suddenly can't do anything, has to punt, and gets off their second terrible punt in a row. Only a penalty stops Wake Forest from taking over at midfield.

Not that this stops Sam Hartman, Wake's quarterback. He blasts downfield again (Clemson's secondary is a shambles; they need to recruit more of my cousins*) and throws his fourth TD of the game. 28-20, Wake Forest.

Now Clemson gets back to business, drives down for a touchdown of their own, and will attempt to tie the game with a 2-point conversion. At which point Aaron Judge comes to bat, again.

In Winston-Salem, Clemson QB DJ Uiagalelei (pronounced just as you spell it) drops back, only to have one Wake defender dive and wrap up his left leg, while another tries to bear-hug him and pancake him to the ground. Remarkably, DJ uses his shoulder to shrug off the bear-hug, drags the man around his left leg a few steps as he moves to his right, and somehow throws a dart to Bo Collins in the end zone to tie the game. Most critical play of the game so far, and easily the best.

Not that we hear this, as we're listening to Michael Kay call Aaron taking ball one, outside.

(After the kickoff, Hartman throws another deep pass, and Nate Wiggins, defending for Clemson, is called for interference once more and nearly has a breakdown. On the next play, Hartman scrambles away from a furious rush and somehow slides the ball into a receiver by the side line, as Wake has now crossed midfield again, looking to break the tie.

In Boston, Aaron works the count to 3-2 and then walks. Kevin in the studio sends us back to the football game, but promises that we'll return the moment Aaron comes to bat again.

Let joy be unconfined.)

*—I'm reasonably sure that the two Clemson players with my surname are NOT actually my cousins, but given that so few people with my name achieve anything in sports, I'm claiming them anyhow.