Since I did not eat dinner, I was drunk by about the fourth inning.That was around the same time when Chris leaned over and whispered to me, “Shhhh….AJ is throwing a shutout.” As soon as he stopped speaking, Victor Martinez immediately hit a homerun.The score was 2-1 and I was still freaking out. My heart rate did not decrease until the fifth inning, when the Yankees went ahead 4-1 on Granderson’s double and ARod’s sac fly.I was happily tipsy, although not entirely confident, for the next three innings.In the eighth, however, the Yankees opened up the game.We sent 11 batters to the plate; ARod, who had been hitless in the ALDS, got two singles in the same inning; Jesus Montero entered the game and proceeded to hit an RBI-single in his first post-season at-bat; and by the time the eighth was over, the Yankees had a nine-run lead and I was pretty much wasted.I don’t really care about the details, the final score, or that AJ initially scared the crap out of me. All that matters is that the Yankees forced Game 5 and the ALDS is headed back to the Bronx, bitches.
Since I did not eat dinner, I was drunk by about the fourth inning.That was around the same time when Chris leaned over and whispered to me, “Shhhh….AJ is throwing a shutout.” As soon as he stopped speaking, Victor Martinez immediately hit a homerun.The score was 2-1 and I was still freaking out. My heart rate did not decrease until the fifth inning, when the Yankees went ahead 4-1 on Granderson’s double and ARod’s sac fly.I was happily tipsy, although not entirely confident, for the next three innings.In the eighth, however, the Yankees opened up the game.We sent 11 batters to the plate; ARod, who had been hitless in the ALDS, got two singles in the same inning; Jesus Montero entered the game and proceeded to hit an RBI-single in his first post-season at-bat; and by the time the eighth was over, the Yankees had a nine-run lead and I was pretty much wasted.I don’t really care about the details, the final score, or that AJ initially scared the crap out of me. All that matters is that the Yankees forced Game 5 and the ALDS is headed back to the Bronx, bitches.