Cubs 29-21
Pirates 24-26
POTG: 1B D Lee (2 2B, R)
Runner Up: 3B A Ram (2H, 2 RBI), 2B Mark DeRosa (2B, 2H, R), C Blanco (2 H, R, RBI)
This was the kind of finish that makes you stop doing game summaries. It also prompts you to have long debates comparing this to Brant Brown's catch (This was a worse drop and by a more important player, but Brant's play ended the game and was at a far more critical time in the season.)
There's other stuff that happened in this game that no one can possibly ever remember. Bob Brenly going off on Soriano after that play is far more memorable than anything that happened on the field, mostly because it was what everyone else was saying at home.
It's a shame Marmol got a blown save out of this. I'm of the firm belief that balls lost in the sun should count as errors - you're major league baseball players with sunglasses, you play in the sun all the time, you're required to make that catch - so it's a shame he got an earned run out of too.
tangent: good article about where Brant Brown is now. Or was last year, anyway.
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