As the Tweeners’ bus rolled into Music City, we were intent on playing spoiler to the Bees’ precarious playoff hopes. When the dust settled after 7 games, little had changed on the NASOMA landscape. The Bees remain in the running for the 11th pick in 2012, while the Tweeners still have a shot at the familiar pick #10.
In game #1 the Bees score 3 in the 1st and 2 in the 2nd and cruise to a 7-3 victory, handing MadBum his 10th loss in his final start of the season. Tweeners miss 2 ballpark homer rolls (1-18, 1-19).
Game #2 was one of the better battles, with Kennedy prevailing over Wainwright for a 4-3 Bees win. Another missed ballpark homer for the Tweeners. It was the same score in game #3, but this time the Tweeners were on the winning end. Felix and friends fan a dozen Bees.
Then things got squirrelly with the expanded September rosters. Daniel Hudson allowed only 1 hit in 6 innings, a solo homer to Adam Dunn, and turned a 7 run lead over to the bullpen. A 5 run 8th gave the Bees renewed hope, but we still led 9-6 going to the bottom of the 9th. Sergio Santos and K-Rod carefully constructed the bonfire, then Javier Lopez and Sergio Romo provided the gasoline. K-Rod did manage to get a couple of outs, and we still led 9-7 when he departed with 2 on and 2 out. Lopez intentionally walked pinch-hitter Mike Cameron to load the bases, and Romo was summoned to face Starlin Castro. In a move that raised some eyebrows, Bees’ manager Hal called Castro back and called on long-time Tweener Alfonso Soriano to pinch hit. And in a finish that had obviously been pre-determined by Hal and his techno-geek lackeys, the dice roll was triple snake-eyes, ballpark homer, which was something like 1-23 in this effin’ bandbox, which begs the question how in the hell did we miss another ballpark homer earlier in the game, but this all now led Hal’s lame scrivener to report that “the highlight belonged to Alfonso Soriano who made the crowd happy when he launched a rocket-shot out of the park for a Grand Slam homerun. Due to a poorly pitched ballgame, scoring in 6 different innings was still not enough for NORM to come away with the victory.” Bees 11, Tweeners 9. The “poorly pitched ballgame” reference really pissed off Dan Hudson, who was unrestrained in his post-game remarks. “Hal manages the opposing team while paying his flunkies to script the outcome in advance so as to fulfill his beat writer’s prophesies. While everyone turns a blind eye to the obvious conflict of interest. Random dice roll my ass. And as for Soriano, who never did shit for the Tweeners with some pretty decent cards, to show us up as he did with that Cadillac trot – hell, with that stacked deck, he would have beat us using Adam Dunn’s 2012 card. He better not dig in the next time I face him.” Tweeners coaches intervened to stop the Hudson rant, but it may have been too late to prevent a likely fine and possible suspension.
But I digress. In game #5 Tweeners got some revenge with our own 9th inning come from behind win, capped by a clutch pinch hit by Paul “Babe” Janish. NORM's manager was feeling mighty fine as he answered questions in his office after the game. 'Now that was one fine ending! Did you see how the crowd just sat there in silence after the winning run scored? Here we are celebrating wildly, and the stadium is cloaked in virtual silence. Weird. but GREAT!' Tweeners 6, Bees 5.
Game #6 went to the Bees 6-2. CG for Kennedy, 3-run HR for Francoeur. In the finale, Tweeners again entrusted a 9-2 lead to the bullpen, but they managed to preserve a 9-5 victory. A homer, double, and 4 RBIs for Nick Swisher.
Where are the fucking cards?
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