Blue Jays 7, Athletics 6 (10 innings): WALK OFF YEEEEAAAAAHHHH!!!

What is up, Yunel Escobar, what is up.

Sometimes you hang around longer than you'd planned at the gym, and by the time you get back to the car and turn the radio on you find out that it's the tenth inning, and so at first you're like hey that's weird, my wife made a strange off-hand prediction this afternoon that this game would go into extras (why would she think or say that?) and here we are, which is neat, but then you learn that Jason Frasor, who you've always been fond of but who has kind of not been great for a while now, gave up a lead-off home run in the tenth and then got into all kinds of other trouble, and you pretty much abandon hope for the bottom of the tenth, especially since Jose Bautista is missing this series what with the birth of his daughter and all (good for you, Bautistas, all the best).  But then sometimes Rajai Davis singles, and while you're busy thinking about whether or not they should bunt him over or if maybe he should try to steal a bag so the sacrifice would put him on third with only out, Yunel Escobar takes the first pitch he sees over the right field wall to win it with a walk-off home run to the delight of the meagre but, like, incredibly understandable 11,077 assembled at the Dome to watch the A's on a Tuesday.  


Sometimes all of that happens, and it's awesome, both in and of itself just as a thing to have happened in the universe, but also because looking at the box score I see now that Jo-Jo Reyes basically didn't get anybody out, and the bullpen heroically closed the door for like six innings, with Willingham's home run off of Frasor the only damage, and so it's great for that kind of effort by the pen to lead to something positive, you know?


Looks like I missed nine innings of lukewarm garbage and tuned in at pretty much the ideal time. 

KS