You play 162 games to get home field advantage in the playoffs and it only takes one game for it to be gone. All you can really hope for when your team gets to the postseason is for its best players to do what they've done all year. Ryan Dempster certainly was not that guy tonight, walking SEVEN men in 4 2/3 innings. Despite those seven, he still would have been out unscathed had he not hung a changeup to Loney after he had him down 0-2.
The final five innings from there were just so dispiriting, it seemed the crowd at Wrigley had never even been to a game before. That crowd was so distant and silent, it didn't even seem like the game was really happening, like if they were just warming up for something.
Carlos has been both completely dominant and completely awful for extended stretches this year on the mound. It's obvious which one we need tomorrow. If he is the guy he thinks he is and we all want him to be, Game 2 is his time. It's gotta be.
My head feels like it's not supposed to, so I'm gonna let head hit pillow. The sun'll come up.....
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