This was a tough loss, Gregor Blanco's opinion notwithstanding. Both teams seemed like they wanted to give the game away at times. The Giants normally reliable bullpen was in a particularly charitable mood last night giving up HR balls like they were Halloween candy.
from Yahoo Sports:
Wong homers in 9th, Cards edge Giants to tie NLCS - Yahoo Sports:
The Giants made it 4-all when pinch-runner Matt Duffy dashed home from second base on a two-out wild pitch in the ninth. San Francisco wound up losing for just the second time in its last 14 postseason games. ''It's not a tough loss at all. I feel it was a great loss,'' said Gregor Blanco, who had a tiebreaking hit in the seventh. ''We battled to the last out, so I think it was a great win.'''via Blog this'
Machi, Strickland and finally Romo were all tagged. Strickland now is at risk of being over-exposed by the staff. It's becoming a smaller list of guys you can trust coming out of the bullpen and this groups of starters is simply not built to give you seven full innings. Guys are going to get exposed. Three situations where if you simply keep the ball in the yard, the Cardinals run out of bats and BOOM! the ball leaves the yard. Can't happen. Can't keep happening.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of loss you get when two teams, that are virtual mirror images of each other in so many ways, get together for a series. Tough losses. Games you felt you should have won, but did not. And maybe Gregor is engaging in some form of whistling past the graveyard with his analysis, or simply being a good team guy, but these type of games just can't happen and they certainly cannot keep happening for long.
They eventually lead to a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts ie: TORTURE!!.
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