Orioles win 24th game in 15 innings
I put the kids to bed hours ago, when the Royals looked to be threatening to break the scoreless tie. I had a bad feeling about the inning and the game. Kansas City has been playing well and they took a 2-0 lead.
I returned after tucking in my daughter to the radio feed and listened as we clawed our way back into the game. There is nothing like baseball on the radio. Joe Angel's voice broke the silence of an ocean side townhouse with the rest of my family asleep and I hung on every word. It's mainly backdrop for reading time unless things get interesting--and they did.
A couple of doubles in the eighth cut the lead to 2-1. But the Royals added an insurance run to go up 3-1. Betemit homered in the ninth to get us within a run and, with two outs and the crowd on their feet ready to celebrate a Royal victory, J..J. Hardy singled in the tying run from second. Flaherty slid in underneath the tag.
The Orioles needed six more innings to break the tie. The relievers put the clamps on the Royals and Adam Jones blasted a home run to left in the 15th. Jim Johnson shut them down but not without putting a runner on--making it interesting.
Kevin Gregg and Dana Eveland stifled the Royal hitters, and they did the same to us.
We're playing like we have a chance to win every game. We're playing like Buck's Yankees of the early 90s or the Orioles in the 70s. You don't know exactly who is going to make it happen--but you get the sense that someone will.
I returned after tucking in my daughter to the radio feed and listened as we clawed our way back into the game. There is nothing like baseball on the radio. Joe Angel's voice broke the silence of an ocean side townhouse with the rest of my family asleep and I hung on every word. It's mainly backdrop for reading time unless things get interesting--and they did.
A couple of doubles in the eighth cut the lead to 2-1. But the Royals added an insurance run to go up 3-1. Betemit homered in the ninth to get us within a run and, with two outs and the crowd on their feet ready to celebrate a Royal victory, J..J. Hardy singled in the tying run from second. Flaherty slid in underneath the tag.
The Orioles needed six more innings to break the tie. The relievers put the clamps on the Royals and Adam Jones blasted a home run to left in the 15th. Jim Johnson shut them down but not without putting a runner on--making it interesting.
Kevin Gregg and Dana Eveland stifled the Royal hitters, and they did the same to us.
We're playing like we have a chance to win every game. We're playing like Buck's Yankees of the early 90s or the Orioles in the 70s. You don't know exactly who is going to make it happen--but you get the sense that someone will.
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