Do you like good, young starting pitching? Great defensive plays? Solo homers your thing? Suspect hit-by-pitches get you fired up? Do you enjoy getting your heart ripped out? Then do I have a game to tell you about!
The difference between being up 3-2 after eight and being behind was probably about three inches spread out over those eight innings. The difference between hanging on to win and losing 4-3 was maybe three more inches in the ninth. This was an exciting, frustrating, infuriating baseball game, with enough quirks for everyone. It was the essence of why I love baseball, and why I sometimes hate that I love baseball.