I generally try to keep overtly partisan sentiments out of this blog, but today I have two words for everybody: Marco! Scutaro!
When I saw him come up to the plate with two out and two on in the bottom of ninth, with the A’s two runs behind, I sort of figured something special was going to happen. Marco himself was less convinced:
“I don’t know about this one,” Scutaro said. “I can’t believe it still, against Mariano. I was just praying the ball didn’t go foul. You don’t get that against him, you don’t get many pitches to hit. The way I’m feeling at the plate right now, the last thing I thought I was going to do is hit a home run.”