NATS (56-37) WORSE THAN PIRATES 22 DAYS AGO

 the guy I work with 
 went to this game, but they left 
 around tenth inning 

 it was hot as fuck; at end 
 of game, nobody was left 

NATS (41-25) BETTER THAN CUBS FIVE DAYS AGO

 12-inning pitchers' 
 duel, won by walk-off hit by 
 caveman Jayson Werth 

 post-game interview - he cursed, 
 which dork fans thought was edgy 

NATS (19-12) WORSE THAN CUBS 2 DAYS AGO

 13th inning loss 
 completes competitive 
 but painful sweep 

 on the plus though, offense smashed
 ace Arrieta off in 5 

NATS (14-4) BETTER THAN TWINS TODAY

 Harper batted in 
 tying run, bottom of ninth, 
 then forever came 

 bottom of sixteenth inning, 
 walk-off homer, game over 

Curly W 6-2

Reason #3 why I end up not liking baseball:

this game took forever, fucking forever

& I didn't even start listening until the 8th inning

bottom of the 13th victory though

(on Friday the 13th)

with Werth getting game-winning hit

hard to hate but

GODDAMN BASEBALL CAN BE SLOW AS FUCK

I will probably start abusing codeine if I keep following every game

(lol, "start")

Blue Jays 7, Indians 4 (F/12): Four-Run Twelfths Are the Best Kind of Twelfths

Brett Lawrie, hothead. 

You look at Brandon Morrow's line -- two runs, neither of them earned, on one hit and only three walks in seven innings pitched -- and there's every reason to think that taken a little off and throwing the two-seamer, as he has vowed to do, is already paying off, and I guess that it is, maybe, but man, it still seemed like he was throwing a lot of pitches out there. Sometimes. A little. Or something. I think maybe I've just got a thing where I can't trust that Brandon Morrow won't ruin my enjoyment, or something, and I've got to get over it, because he was by any reasonable standard cruising when a J. P. Arencibia throwing error set the stage for two unearned runs to come in on a Jason Kipnis homer in the fifth. Blue Jays bats were scared hitless until the seventh, when Brett Lawrie knocked in a pair after a couple of walks and a wild pitch that almost say Adam Lind thrown out at second. It was seriously close!


I was sure that Kelly Johnson's solo shot in the top of the ninth was going to do it (note that Aaron Hill, for whom he was traded, hit two today), but our new closer with whom I have yet to develop any problems served one up for Asdrubal Cabrera, and so it was extras again, which I would feel darkly about had it not ended as it did in the twelfth, that is, with an inning that went: a double for E5, another single for Lawrie that would have scored anyone but E5, a two-run double by Rajai Davis, who had come on for Eric Thames in the ninth, and RBI singles from Colby Rasmus and Johnson. A four-run twelfth! I will overlook the run Francisco Cordero allowed in the final frame, and focus instead on how Casey Janssen was awesome in the two innings of work that preceded. 


Two ways to look at all of this so far, I think. On the one hand, it is rad that that Blue Jays have pulled off two come-from-behind wins in extra innings to open the year! On the other, should it be this hard to beat Cleveland? Either way, bring the brooms Sunday! I'm not sure where!


KS