So Game 3 felt like it should have been a win: Taveras was sitting and the Rox went back to their spring training lineup more or less. Game 3 hurt, as did my vocal cords and the Baseball Gods did not come through with a Buckner-esque error from Ortiz.
Game 4, however was all Hurdle's mistake. Why he did not go right to Corpas instead of Fuentes I'll never know. Fuentes looked lost up there and served up a meat-ball nowhere near Yorvit's target but right into Kielty's bread-basket. Oops.
The Baseball Gods, though, knowing that true Rox fans would be distraught if Seth Smith didn't get a shot at saving the game, had him end up being the last batter of the season. So in the end we can't hate Hurdle too much.
We can however hate each of the home umps for making an unheard of amount of bad strikes/balls. Luckily Fox wisened up to it by Game 4 and started showing their "Fox Trax" thingy more often and showed each of the bad calls (I counted about 12 balls called strikes against the Rox hitters and about 6 strikes called balls against the Rox pitchers, which forced them to throw out meatballs).
Mendoza's 5280 (reasons to say "oh well, whatcha gonna do?")
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