Frickin' MASN

At seven o'clock Wednesday night, I was revved up to see some Birds Baseball. In fact, I was ready for some O's action since I woke up that morning. So imagine my surprise when I flip over to the game and I see the Nationals-Phillies game. So I flip around the stations and can't find it, and, needless to say I'm disappointed. So when I was flipping around the stations when I was ironing my clothes for Thursday, I am exstatic to find the game on MASN 2, which is MASN, but a later edition. Despite the fact that there was 1 out in the bottom of the 8th when I turned the game on and I have no clue how the first eight and a half innings panned out, the circumstances I am about to describe warrented the writing of this article.

Picture me this...

One out. Bottom of the 8th. Orioles 5, Rays 6. Del Rey on the mound. Mora on second. Millar at the plate. I'm practically standing on the ironing board as Kevin spanks a ground ball up the middle that catches some leather off the mitt of the diving second baseman. he pops up onto his knee to make a throw, but the ball stubbornly sat on the ground comfortably situated in the dirt. The fielder agressively picks up the ball, but doesn't even attempt a throw as Millar stands upon 1st. Up next, Aubrey Huff.

In the sixth, Huffy smacked a a two run homer onto the flag court to trim the Rays lead to one. Now, in the eighth, Huffy would eliminate the Rays lead entirely. Huffy CRUSHED a 1-2 pitch into deep Right Center Field that took an NBA hop off the wall, over the head of center fielder BJ Upton, and by the time the dust cleared, Huffy stood on third with two runs driven in on what they called a double with an error. After a Ramon sac fly to score Aubrey, and Adam Jones knocking in one more run, Bandon Fahey struck out to end the inning.

Our newly acquired closer, George Sherrill, gets to attempt at his first save of the year. After walking the timid Aki Iwamura on a questionable check swing, Sherrill struck out Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena and got a pop fly out to Adam Jones off Johnny Gomes. George Sherrill, I knight thee George "Scare on the Hill" Sherrill.

Jamie "Sky" Walker got the win and struck out all three batters he faced.

So, at the end of the day, Huffy got 4 RBI's, his first homer of the season, his first clutch hit of the year, and a readmittance into the hearts of O's fans. And you know what, he deserves it.

Rubber Match on Thursday. Stay tuned.