I Can't Believe it! Cubs Win!
I had some things to do this evening, so I DVR'd tonight's game. Once I got done with my chores, me and the fam retired to the basement, sprawled across the Cubbie blue leather couches, and watched some baseball. Before I could really get into the game, Z was getting rocked and the Cubs were down 5-1. DeRosa homered cutting the lead to 5-3, but inning after inning this game turned into the yucky general malaise that has plagues every game against these scrappy, dead stadium, Marlins. I knew the Cubs were going to lose. They got a few runners on, but no matter. It just felt like a loss, and I started to zip through the batters, courtesy my 30-second skip. Out...Out...Out...Commercial...Out...Out....Out...Commercial.
Then, all of a sudden, the Cubs get a few runners on with the slumping Daryle Ward up in the top of the 9th. I suddenly got a tiny feeling that something might go right. Three-run moon shot and the Cubs got the lead! Family goes berserk. I can't believe it. My throat is gnarled. Then Wood comes in. Wood's numbers since coming off the DL have been good, but personally I feel he's been getting lucky with a lot of those outs as they were all seemingly hot smashes right at people. He hasn't been the same Kerry that earned the All-Star birth. I was just thinking today that I bet he blows his first save opportunity. Sooner or later those rockets will catch up to him.
Not on this night, though. He made it interesting, with a seemingly 50-pitch walk to Ramirez before getting two strikes on but ultimately hitting the next batter. Two on, two out. All through the bottom of the ninth, the tension was so thick I couldn't stand it. I had to cheat and hit FFW a few times before I had a heart attack. 0-2....strike 3, Cubs win! Holy cow!
I knew they'd win all along.