Plenty of Game Ball candidates in this one……Donovan, Goldy, Burly, Winn, Carp for his huge 8th inning hit……but I think I’m tossing the Game Ball to an unsung hero in all of this……Kitty……what a huge K by Kitty in the 7th or this game could have got totally out of hand.
Yeah, the K with baserunners at 2nd and 3rd with 1 out after the Cubs had already taken a 4-3 lead was about the only way to escape that inning without really getting skint-up.
That was clearly the greatest slide into home plate in the history of little, junior high, high school, college, independent, minor, and major league baseball and will never be duplicated again.
I tuned in last night just in time to see Helsley get smacked around in the 9th. Thankfully we held on! Two of those flyball outs would have been HR’s at Wrigley.