How Playoff Games Are Supposed To Go: Rockies 6, Giants 4

In a duel of sub-aces, Barry Zito and Jason Marquis, both left after pitching well despite getting into a jam or two. Both sides were locked at 1-1 going into the ninth, and both teams had a man on second with no (the Giants' Ryan Garko hit a leadoff double) or one (Ian Stewart worked a leadoff walk and was sacrificed over by Yorvit Torrealba) outs; neither scored. That set up a pretty long string of extra innings that consisted mainly of flubs and squandered chances; Troy Tulowitzky, for instance, tried to stretch a single into a double in the bottom of the tenth, and got thrown out for his trouble. Randy Winn reached second in the 13th, and he couldn't score. Combined with one of our new dogs biting my ankle — for reasons I still don't entirely understand — it was a frustrating night. I decided to go for a walk right about the middle of the 12th. That was actually too bad, because two innings later, the Giants finally broke through with pair of triples an...