Not At-Game Recap: 2009 NLDS Game 2: Vin Takes Me Home

It seems like only a minority of SoSG readers can appreciate this, but I couldn't share the joy of being at Thursday's incredible come-from-behind 3-2 victory at the Stadium. I was apparently the only guy in LA that had to work. And "watching" this game via mlb.com's gameday was incredibly painful. What served as a reasonable substitute for television over six months this year, became a woefully insufficient medium to capture the majesty and emotion of this game. Adam Wainwright was pwning us, I could see that from Gameday. Matt Holliday's second-inning home run was matched by Andre Ethier's fourth-inning bomb, but the pitcher's duel appeared to have gone the Cardinals' way when Joe Torre left Clayton Kershaw in to bat in the bottom of the sixth inning (Kershaw having gone six innings of one-run ball with 97 pitches), and then Kershaw gave up a go-ahead run in the top of the seventh. I couldn't understand why Torre, who was so quick w...