ap recap :: box score :: game log
Can't deny it, this team is exciting. They take a 5 run lead, squander it, save the tie, break the tie. Westbrook looked sloppier than usual. Bob Wickman made it interesting by allowing KC to tie the game in the 9th. Bentancourt was brilliant in 2 innings pitched, striking out 4. But the hero of the game: Omar Vizquel. He was hitless until the 11th when he hit a perfectly-placed triple. Matt Lawton hit a sac fly to score Little O. But that's not all..... In the 9th he threw an absolutely perfect relay to Martinez at home to save the game and send it into extra innings. Without that play, the Royals would have won the game. Watching the play was like watching perfectly choreographed dance. And people say that baseball is boring!
I found a great site yesterday called Retrosheet. I was looking for an archive of box scores because I want to see what the Tribe did last year. All I remember from last year were a lot of base-running mistakes, hitting into double plays, and a distinct lack of plate discipline. It is refreshing to realize that on July 30, 2003 the Indians beat the A's in Oakland.