Walk-Off Wonders

Ludwick makes Los Angeles look foolish with his walk- off winner in the 11th

Taking a 4-0 Lead into the ninth inning Tuesday Night, it looked like a win was in the cards for the Cards, but here is when the trouble started for the Cardinals backers. However good this looked, it looked just as bad after the 2 saviors of the Cards ‘Pen entered the game, Ron “5.26 ERA” Villone, came in gave up a HR to pinch hitter Andruw “I Stole $20 Mill.” Jones, which then brought Jason “6.28 ERA” Isringhausen into the game, to allow 4 hits, 1 walk, and 3 ER to tie the game while recording just 1 out. Ryan Franklin, charged with the blown save, came in, recorded the final 2 outs while allowing 1 to score on a sac fly. The game remained scoreless until the 11th, you could feel the tension in the air, all the way to your computer screen, where, admit it, you were watching the little ball on MLB Gameday, or Yahoo! Gamechannel, or some other stupid service, and jumped up, and spilled your beer (or Shirley Temple) as you saw “In Play run(s). flash across the screen, which meant that you have just won your DIME BET!! YIPPEE!!! Now you have 20 cents to blow on a game tomorrow!!, in Dodgers Backers cases, your beer also spilled, but not in excitement, it was slammed down, as you went to collect your shiny new Penny x10.

Ludwick's Walk-off HR



Swisher Sends ChiSox fans home happy

Losing 6-1 in the top of the 5th were the ChiSox, and you were seriously contemplating forfeiting your bet, to get a new dime, to place on some midnight ping pong game, or whatever crazy new sport centsports has added. For those of you that decided against forfeiting, this was a good move, for those of you who did, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME. The Sox stormed back scoring 1 in the 5th, 2 in the 6th, 1 in the 7th, and then 1 again in the 8th while holding the Tiggers scoreless over those frames (you must give credit to the bullpen here). The score remained tied, 6-6 until the top of the 14th, when Placido Polanco, hit his 2nd 2-R HR of the game, yes Placido Polanco, the same Polanco who hit just 2 HR in his 1st 334 career AB, and the same one that had hit just 4 so far in the season!!! Surely now, you were furious, deciding not to forfeit and the Sox come back just to break your heart??, you are lucky for those of you that did not forfeit, for if you did now, you wouldn’t have anything to bet on anyway, the ping pong match had started 10 minutes ago. But loyal Sox backers did not quit, they continued to watch the game and see the Sox threaten in the 14th, coming within one, when this happened….

Swisher's Walk-off HR

I could go on an on again about the beer and shit, but I think you got the point already.