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 Saturday, October 12, 2002
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Cards go down in order in the 9th.
Kent, Bonds, Santiago come to bat for Giants. 5-4 St Louis leads. Let's go Giants. One run to tie, two to cut off the Cards' air supply.
New pitcher Jason Isringhausen or however you spell his name.
Kent is up. Let's go. Big swing. 1-1 count. Pigeon on field. Bonds on deck. Let's go! Big swing. Miss. 1-2. Get on base!! Foul pop. 1-2. Fouls into stands. 1-2 count. Struck him out. One out. Bonds up.
Bonds. Strike one. Ball one. Ball two. Ball three. Ball four.
Santiago. One out. Bonds on first. Winning run at the plate. Strike one. Ball one. No double play please. Strike two (Bonds was running on the pitch). Struck out.
Reggie Sanders. 0 for 12 in NLCS. Ball one. Last out for Giants. Two balls. JT Snow on deck. Strike one. Foul. Strike two. 2-2 count. Pops out to right field. Three outs.
4:37:35 PM Google It! 
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Cards go down in order in the 8th, up 5-4.
Bell leads off Giants 8th with a single to center.
Shawn Dunston bunts. Sacrifice works. Runner on second. One out.
Lofton bounces out. Bell does not advance to third. Two out. New pitcher Rick White.
Aurilia up. 0-2 count. Tying run at second. Grounds out.
4:20:38 PM Google It!
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Aurilia with a leadoff double in the seventh. Cards lead 5-4. Not for long.
Jeff Kent up. Bonds waiting on deck. Kent strikes out.
First base is open. Bonds draws the intentional walk.
Benito Santiago up. Santiago gets a beautiful infield hit. Great baserunning. One out. Bases loaded. It should have been a double play. Santiago slides headfirst into first.
Reggie Sanders up. Strikes out. Two out, bases loaded. Pitching change. Steve Kline coming out of the bullpen. JT Snow the scheduled hitter for the Giants.
Snow grounds out. St Louis leads 5-4.
3:58:39 PM Google It!
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Aurilia walks. One on, no one out. Kent singles. Runners on first and second, no one out. Bonds up. First pitch way outside. HOME RUN!!
HE FUCKING SMOKED IT. Into the bay. Only one word for it. FUCK.
The game is tied 4-4.
Santiago singles to left. Still no one out. Sanders pops out to left. Hard play. One out.
Cards get out of the inning with a 3-6-3 double play. Okay not bad inning.
3:13:25 PM Google It!
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Fifth inning. Cards at bat, leading 3-1. One out. 2-2 count to Edmonds. Hits one out of the park, into the bay. Foul. Whew. Hits one the other way, out of the park. Home run. 4-1. One out. Oy.
2:59:27 PM
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Don Park is looking for a good-quality RSS parser in Java. If he doesn't find one he's going to write it. Help out Don, he's a good guy.
2:56:01 PM
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Leadoff walk for Giants in the fourth. Ortiz -> perfect bunt. Bell at second. One out.
Line drive. Double play. Inning over. 3-1, St Louis.
2:50:09 PM
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During the commercial break my desktop aggregator sent me an email with the latest news. (A new feature I'm working on.) It sent me a pointer to Jon Udell's report from Digital ID World.
2:47:18 PM Google It!
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Metheney hits a home run to left field. 3-1 St Louis.
A bit of baseball culture. The Giants fan who caught the home run threw it back on the field. Hey that's called philosophy. Not bad. Maybe he comes from Chicago.
Finlay hits a great ball to center. Kenny Laughton makes a fantastic catch.
Two out. 1-2 count. Grounder to second, out at first.
2:43:08 PM Google It!
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Bottom of the third. Middle of Giants order. Santiago at the plate, 1-2 count. Takes strike three. Oy.
Reggie Sanders. One out no one on. Dribbler to short. Easy play at first. Two out no one on.
JT Snow. Hard drive to first, relay to pitcher. Out.
2:30:21 PM Google It!
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Top of the third. Cardinals at bat.
Wild pitch to pitcher Finley on strike three. He's on first. Oh my god.
Major hit, off the tip of the glove of center fielder, runners on second and third, one out.
Strange game. Very weird. One out.
Deep fly to right, Finley tags and scores. 1-1, two out runner on third. (Fox says it's just one out.) They got it right. Ground ball to short. Scores runner on third, 2-1, St Louis. Two out. No one on.
Let's end this inning, okay? How about now. 1-2 count, runner on first. Here's the pitch. High, almost wild. Full count. Come on let's get out of this stinkin inning. Foul ball. Ball four. Walked him. Sheeeeez.
Tino Martinez at bat. Runners at first and second two out. 1-1 count. Great play by Santiago, out at first, inning over. Not too much damage.
2:14:30 PM Google It!
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Cards go down in order in the second, Giants at bat. JT Snow nails one into right field for the Giants first base hit. The Giants are hitting. Bell gets a single. First and second no one out. Both batters went to 3-2. Using up a lot of pitches and waiting for a good pitch and hitting. Infield in. Ortiz at bat. Bunts foul. Excellent bunt! Error!!! Bases loaded no one out!!! Top of the order. Bouncer to first, play to the plate, one out. Rich Aurilia up. Still no runs. Finley throwing hard but a little wild. Flies to center, sac fly, 1-0 San Francisco. Two out. Runners at first and second. Jeff Kent, base hit up the middle, bases loaded. Barry Bonds at bat. No place to put him. Bonds pops to right. Three down. It's just 1-0. Should be much more.
1:57:09 PM
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The Giants failed to score after loading the bases in the first, after two Cardinal errors; one a poorly handled ball at shortstop, the second a big mental error (a throw to second that should have gone to first). The final out of the inning was a very lucky catch by St Louis that would certainly have been a third error. The Giants should have scored on all the Cardinal errors.
1:56:04 PM
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