Twins at Seattle. Mariners 4, Twins 3

Dear readers. Dear dear readers. Batgirl loves you. She loves you so. She has devoted herself to being your guide through this Twins season, and she will do it, no matter how late she has to stay up.

Forgive Batgirl. She gets emotional when she is sleepy. It’s one in the morning, and the 13th inning, and Batgirl will be staying valiantly awake until the bitter, bitter end.

We should have known it was going to be one of those days. Gardy got kicked out on the second batter of the game; home plate umpire Marty Foster blew a call and Gardy took issue with his eyesight and perhaps his parentage, and Foster ejected him. Some people just don’t like to argue. This was Gardy’s first ejection of the year, and Team Batgirl can’t help but be relieved; we were beginning to think something was wrong with him.

No! I love Batgirl more!

This was going to be a strange series for us; everyone wondered what would happen when we faced Eddie. The Twins ended the suspense early in the season series by being on the weenie end of the scoreboard in the ninth—3-2 Mariners, a save situation. Here we go.

Well, with two outs and two on, Torii Hunter hit a 3-2 pitch for a double, scoring Guzie to tie the game, and then Koskie barreled toward home and then, well, Marty Foster called him out. Except the catcher apparently had missed the tag. It took Al Newman, Jerry White, Scott Ullger and Steve Liddle to restrain Corey Koskie from getting Canadian on Foster’s ass. Some things were said that can’t be taken back, and Koskie was ejected for his efforts. Just because he was wrongly called out on the go-ahead run in the ninth with two outs. He’s so touchy.

(By the way, it’s nice to know that Eddie is giving the Mariners fans the same kind of gastrointestinal problems. It makes Batgirl feel strangely close to the good people of Seattle, like if she were to meet them on the street, she would recognize the haunted look in their eyes and nod gently. I know, man, I know.)

Anyway, we went into extra innings, with no bench and most of our bullpen already used, and Batgirl very sleepy but valiantly staying awake for the sake of her dear readers. That’s just how much she cares.

There were low moments. Like, say, for instance, in the 11th inning, Stewart walked, then Guzie bunted—and Stewie was out at second. With Guzie at first, Dougie singled—and Guzie lost his mind. After reaching second base, he went back to first because he thought Dougie had flied out to Ichiro. Guzie might have been sleepy. Batgirl understands. She was pretty sleepy, too.

Well, we lost it in the 16th inning, on another bad Marty Foster call at home, but JC and Joe Nathan pitched very well. Maybe Foster was trying to make up for the blown call in the ninth?

Tomorrow is another day. Actually, today is. Good night, sweet readers. I shall see you in my dreams.

Posted by Batgirl at May 5, 2004 01:56 AM