The unexpected playoff

On Sunday night the twins and the Chicago white sox and I extra game to decide the winner of the American league central division. It was an away game for the twins because the sox had won the coin flip. This was a bad thin because the twins were 8 and 1 against the sox at home and 1 and 8 away. So this game was definitely in the sox favor, at least the stats showed so. The pitchers for this “playoff” game were Nick Blackburn for the twins and Gavin Floyd for the Sox. We all had thought that this game was going to be one which was decided at the plate. It was projected to be around an 8 to 9 game or something around there. It all happened so that it was the exact opposite; it turned out to be a pitchers duel. As Nick Blackburn took a zero to zero tie deep into the game he was getting worn out. It was the eighth inning and the batter was Jim Thome, one of the most deadly sox hitters in the history. As Blackburn delivered the pitch I thought ohh no. Nick left a breaking ball up and oh did Thome’s eyes get huge. He swung at the pitch and boy was it a blast, almost all the way out of the stadium. That one mistake by Blackburn cost the twins the game, the season and a playoff birth. The final score of the game was 1 to 0 white sox, all thanks to Jim Thome