I spent some time today wandering around the downtown area of San Francisco. I bought my 7-day visitor passport (cheaper than having a 3-day and a 1-day to cover the 4 days that I'll need it for!) and rode on the cable car. My first two games in San Francisco this year are a short 2-game series with the Boston Red Sox. We don't play against Boston very often, as they are in the AL East and not our "natural AL rival" (which is Oakland, based on the geography)
This game was tight throughout. Not very much hitting and not very many runs either, although by the mid-innings, San Francisco had taken a 3-2 lead. However, with runners on the corners, and 1 out, David Ortiz came up to pinch-hit for Boston and hit a weak ground ball to Joe Panik at 2nd base, but Joe couldn't make the tag on the runner before throwing to first. If he had, that would have been an inning-ending double play, but as it happened, it meant the tying run scored. The game went to extra innings, and Boston scored a couple of runs in the 10th inning before Kimbrel came in and closed the game out.
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