Thor’sLinks: Slip Slidin’ Away

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports That was fun for a while. A 5-0 lead and a great game out of Andrelton Simmons, power AND baseball smarts. A 3-run home run by Kole Calhoun as pretty nostalgic.

Cam Bedrosian was the Opener, ,meaning that Felix Pena would be targeted to last through the 6th inning. That was the very inning he finally surrendered, giving up a pair of runs.

Luis Garcia took over in the 7th. Walk, single, walk, walk, hello Ty Buttrey. Add a sac fly and an infield base hit and the 5-run lead was gone. For good. (I know there was a lot of harping about the plate umpire when Garcia was pitching last night, but the ump only missed one call.)

9th inning. Out + out = 2 outs. Base hit.…