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{ 2005 10 09 }

Bottom of the Eighteenth

Posted by Anne in: Baseball

Brad Ausmus! Chris Burke!
The Astros announcers are shouting over each other with tears streaming out of their eyes. Awesome. Go ‘Stros!

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Rodger | 09-Oct-05 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

What a game!

Two grand slams!

A two-out homer bottom of the ninth!

A walk off homer! In the 18th inning!

Roger Clemens — in relief!

I regret that I only saw about half of it, with few consecutive innings. I turned it off in the 7th when it was 6-1 Braves.
Rodger | 09-Oct-05 at 8:16 pm | Permalink

Oh, I should have added that I turned it back on in extras and caught some of the late excitement.
Anne | 09-Oct-05 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

Spencer informs me that the last time Clemens pitched in relief was 1984. Over 20 years ago.
Anne | 09-Oct-05 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

And yeah – what a game. We were listening to the Houston radio broadcast over the internet, and I’ve come to love those announcers. Not even a gesture toward neutrality. They were saying things like “Ok, now, Berkman up. Come on, Lance, let’s see it. Make us proud.”

Whenever there’s an important game that goes deep into extra innings, I always have a half-suspicion that we have entered into the neverending game from The Iowa Baseball Confederacy… that something supernatural must be going on. Otherwise, how could they keep gradually filling the bases but never scoring, inning after inning? Definitely had that feeling with this one. Listening to the game on the radio intensifies the feeling.
Rodger | 10-Oct-05 at 3:52 pm | Permalink

I really liked Kinsella’s novel, but I like baseball games to last about 2 hours and 30 minutes. On radio it can go longer, maybe, but I don’t always follow every pitch on radio.

For a rare extra-inning game, 3 or maybe even 4 hours is OK.

I should have mentioned also that Chris Burke is from Louisville. I know people who know him or his family.

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