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| Tim Mayza continues to lead the AL in "Charlie Brown Energy" |
Well, phooey: Alek Manoah pitched well enough to win (on his self-[co]-designed t-shirt day), but left the game down a run after seven complete, and the best the bats could do from there was tie it up. The top of the order came up in the bottom of the ninth, but couldn't do anything with George Springer's lead-off walk. It was tough to see David Phelps fall apart in the tenth (walk, walk, HBP), and a slick 3-6-3 double play (Biggio, Kirk, Biggio) was not enough to forestall Verdugo's two-run double off Tim Mayza. A nice little two-out rally in the bottom of the tenth (Chapman single, Espinal single, Biggio [!] double) left the tying run ninety feet from home, but it might as well have been, like, an infinity of feet. It is weird how flat it feels to win a series when you lose the final game! And by a single run in extras! This is as close to a series-sweep as you can get without actually sweeping a series, but it sure feels otherwise. No time for that though as the Rays are coming in for something like thirty games in twenty-nine days. Intense!
KS
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