Game 143: Dodgers 5 Pirates 4

The baseball gods tried to tell me to go to bed tonight. Despite having the Extra Innings package, I couldn't watch this game on TV because it was marked as an MLB Network broadcast, even though the MLB Network dropped it everywhere but Pittsburgh in favor of the Giants and Rockies. While a well-adjusted person might have given up right at that point, I've never claimed that, so I put the game on my computer to listen to while I worked on some FanHouse stuff and a post about Garrett Jones for tomorrow. Things seemed to be going reasonably well, but the one-run lead was making me more than a little nervous. Still, I put the computer down when I finished the Jones post during the top of the ninth and did some typical contact removal, teeth brushing, late night stuff. I came back to Matt Capps face in the sidebar, a dot on the base paths, and the worst runs a baseball fan can encounter: "Ball in play, run(s)." Tie game, coupled with that feeling that's not quite u...