[MLB] A’s didn’t succeed to broom the Angels
Jul 26th, 2007 by Ashley
This series against the Angels was so much fun.
Game 1 was the resurrection of recent-announced-dead A’s offense.
Game 2 was Buck show. Buck went 4-5 in that game and had 3 RBIs (ie. 3 of the 4 runs were contributed by him) and ended the game with a saving catch.
Game 3, today, Angels began to lead 1-0, and then 1-1, and then A’s leads 1-2, then 2-2, then 2-3 and we went into the unfortunately bottom of 5th in which Joe Blanton, my fav A’s pitcher, allowed 3 runs and turned the game into 5-3. It dragged 5-3 until the bottom of 8th where the Halos added some cushion for their confidence and the game seemed to be gone. However, in the top of 9th, Piazza again made the “I own the Angels” declaration and the game went from 6-3 to 6-6 forcing the Halos to go another half inning. At the eve of witnessing A’s resurgence – I always love to see the A’s fight back in late innings, that’s how I fell in love with this team in the first place – Geren decided to pick this time to showcase Joe K. As we all knew, 2 singles were allowed and 1 man scored.
All in all, it’s a somewhat dramatic series. I’m not as angry as some people for Joe K situation, since playoff isn’t that important for me. I’m content as long as they keep the game interesting. After all, my true loyalty lies in the Blues.
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Let me talk something not that relevant. We went to Red Loster for dinner tonight. There were blue, red, green, yellow plates for us. Smore handed me the red plate, I yelled “No Way!” and grabbed the blue one from him. I then pointed at the blue plate, said “this is Chelsea” and pointed at the green and the yellow, said “and this is A’s,” and at the red, “this is all the rest teams I hate.” (Angels, Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal…)