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A very cool game. For many reasons. First off, we won, which is weird in and of itself.
However, we got great pitching from Darren Oliver, we got hitting from our pitchers, and we had home runs. Raffy had two, Mike Young had one (in front of his family, who was from LA), and Pudge had one for the fourth game in a row.
The guys looked loose, they were having fun in the dugout, and there was much laughter that I saw on TV. We tried to give it away, by giving up four runs late, but we managed to hold on.
However, it wasn’t all good. Gabe Kapler had to be scratched before the game with the flu, and Rusty had to come out with a hamstring injury. Hopefully it won’t be so bad.

I was right (see yesterday’s commentary). We lost. And we did it in such an annoying fashion, I felt thoroughly disgusted after the game.

I have tickets to Sunday nights’ game – I can almost guarantee we’ll lose that. Whenever we have a big game like this, we lose the next one.
If we strung together a few of these, I might feel like writing about them – this just feels like an aberration.

Oh look – another game where we blow it late due to the bullpen. I’m getting tired of saying that.

Darren Oliver pitched spectacularly. He gave up just a single run. Our bullpen blew it. What more needs to be said?

This loss was annoying. We pitched well. Doug Davis looked good. We were winning. We were robbed of a grand slam late, and I knew then that we’d lose. Usually when something like that happens, we lose the game. I was right. :(

I watched this. I was enjoying it. Where did those 6 runs at the end of the game come from? It looked like we had a shot to win this one, and then ejected that chance with a fiasco in the 7th & 8th.
We stayed right with Seattle early on – getting three jacks, including one from Arod, which was especially sweet.
I’m left just scratching my head over this game.