The Night That Could Have Been....

4-2...bottom 9, 1-2 count to the tireless David Eckstein, in comes the 1-2, a hard ground ball to left field...............O.K....O.K....nothing to get to worked up about, we still have Lidge, and up next is the unusually cool, Jim Edmonds............strike one.......holy shit 2 strikes away from the World Series, can this possibly be happening..........ball one...........its ok we still just need to more strikes........ball 2........i dont like this a bit but still i like my odds..COME ON LIDGE LETS DO THIS MAN!!!!!........ball 3.......SHIT.......come on Lidge get it together.......ball 4, take your base.......O.K. now im worried, up next is Albert Pujols, possibly the best hitter since Wade Boggs, but with the power of the Babe........heres comes the first pitch.......A STRIKE.....hell yeah thats what im talking about Lidge, just two more.........the 0-1 pitch......>CRACK<