Where is the game?
I’m watching the Tigers-Twins playoff game on my computer. If it’s on TV I can’t find it. In the 11th inning Detroit puts in a pinch runner named….Don Kelley. Okay, he spells it Kelly. But I can pretend. Don Kelley winds up scoring the go-ahead run in the 10th. The Twins, however, answer in the bottom of the 10th, then Don Kelley winds up on 3rd in the 11th, bases loaded, full count. A ball four to Rayburn would force in the go-ahead run for Detroit in the person of Don Kelley. Except if Rayburn swings at ball four and misses. Which he does. So it’s on to the 12th, where the Twins just won it.
Who was I rooting for?
Whoever would have the better chance of beating the Yankees, of course. The Twins faced the Yankees only 7 times this year in the regular season, going 0 for 7. That’s right, uh-huh. 0 for 4 at Yankee Stadium, 0 for 2 in the don’t-knock-it-down-quite-yet Metrodome.
Twins in the playoffs
Well, the Angels usually beat the Red Sox in the regular season season series, but always lose in the playoffs (12 of the last 13 games, and all four postseason series). Maybe the Twins fortune will change over the next few days. This is Minnesota’s fifth time in the playoffs this decade. Their track record isn’t great – they lost in the second round to Anaheim in 2002, lost in the first round to New York in 2003 and 2004, and lost in the first round to Oakland in 2006.
I have my fingers and eyes crossed.