Down the stretch
Well the Red Sox might be out of it, but there is still some pretty darn exciting baseball happening right now. I got chills of excitement listening to the recap of the Dodgers Padres game last night. Here is how it went.
Padres are half a game over the Dodgers in the division race. Bottom of the ninth, Dodgers are down 9-5. Jeff Kent, JD Drew, Martin, and Anderson hit back to back to back to back home runs to tie the game and send it into extra innings. In the top of the 10th the Padres score a run so they now lead 10-9. Bottom of the tenth Kenny Lofton gets on base, and good old Nomar Garciaparra hits a walk off homer to win the game and put the Dodgers ahead half a game in the NL west division. To hear the announcer call one home run after another was unbelievable. That kind of late game heroics is what makes this time of year great no matter who is playing.
In other news David Ortiz leads the AL with 49 home runs and is taking a shot at breaking the single season home run record for the Red Sox which is 50. The Red Sox also took 3 of 4 from the Yankees in two days. We might be ten games out, but the games are still exciting.
