Ouch. That was a rather unpleasant ending.
To my Padre friends, my deepest condolences. I can’t imagine the pain of going up 2 in the top of the 13th, bringing in your record-holding closer, and watching him flush 3 runs down the toilet.
All coming in a tiebreaker game that wouldn’t have happened if he could have held down the fort in the last game of the season (against the son of the team’s all-time greatest player, no less).
Well, at least you still have the LT, Antonio, Merriman, and your Super Chargers, right?
Oh yeah, right.
Keep your heads up San Diegans. Drown your sorrows in a Stone XI Anniversary Ale. 2008 will be here before you know it.