It would have been a lot less painful if the Giants had just lost 5-1, but Santiago Casilla had something special up his sleeve.
The Armando Benitez game was just over nine years ago, and we didn’t miss it at all. After going ahead in extra innings on May 29, 2007, the Giants turned the ball over to their embattled closer, and he couldn’t hold the lead. The lead wriggled out of his hands and crawled up his nose, heading straight to his brain stem and chewing on it. There were balks involved.
I spent the night digging through my Peanuts books to find this and scan it in:
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Benitez balked in the tying run, but he gave up a walk-off homer.