Patti and I are following this year’s Baseball World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers (LA) and the Tampa Bay Rays (TB).\u00a0<\/p>\n
We are hoping for TB to win the World Series.<\/p>\n
LA won game one. TB won game two. LA won game three. So today’s game four had considerable importance for TB because if they lost today’s game they would fall behind LA 3 games to 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The below events led up to one of the wildest finishes in World Series history.<\/p>\n
The game began pretty much in favor of LA who went ahead 1 – 0 on a home run in the top of the 1st inning. Then LA went up 2 – 0 on another home run in the 3rd inning. TB came back in the 4th inning to make it 2 – 1 for LA. Then in the top of the 5th inning it was 3 – 1 LA and then in the bottom of the 5th inning 3 – 2 LA. In the top of the 6th inning it went 4 – 2 for LA.<\/p>\n
Then things got interesting.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In the bottom of the 6th inning, one (a 3 run home run) swing of the bat put TB ahead for the first time in the game 5 – 4.<\/p>\n Top of the 7th inning LA regained the lead 6 – 5. Bottom of the 7th inning TB tied the game up at 6 – 6. Top of the 8th inning LA went up 7 – 6.<\/p>\n No more scoring in the bottom of the 8th inning and top of the 9th inning and we came to the bottom of the 9th inning LA 7 – 6 TB.<\/p>\n In the bottom of the 9th inning, TB put two runners on base (one at 2nd base and one on 1st base) with two outs.\u00a0<\/p>\n The stage is set. TB brought up a pinch-hitter (reserve outfielder Brett Phillips with a very low batting average of 0.200) and the count went to 2 strikes against him. Then (one strike away from ending the game) he hit a sharp single into right center field. The runner on 2nd base scored to tie the game at 7 – 7 BUT the center fielder muffed the ball allowing the runner who had been on 1st base to come around 3rd base AND the second throw to the LA catcher bounced of his glove and TB won the game in an amazing finish.<\/p>\n Like I said in the above title : YOU WATCH 100 (MAYBE 500) GAMES TO SEE THIS ONE GAME<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Much fun. Game five tomorow.<\/p>\n Smiles from both of us .. Cap and Patti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patti and I are following this year’s Baseball World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers (LA) and the Tampa Bay Rays (TB).\u00a0 We are hoping for TB to win the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42030"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42039,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42030\/revisions\/42039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}