Ain't gonna sweep...
It was a frustrating game for the Rays as they failed time after time to build on their early 2-0 lead and it eventually came back to bite them when Seattle came back in the late innings and took a 4-3 win to pull them within 2-1 of the Rays in the ALCS. Seth Williams had a big early triple but left 7 men on base while the big guns of Alexander and Barela were 0-8 with 9 men left on between them. Brad Jackson was rolling until he wasn't, and now Greg Bookhart will hope to replicate his ALDS performance in a pivotal game that will be difference between going up 3-1 and being tied 2-2.
In the NLCS:
Hopefully this series isn't a harbinger of the ALCS as its first three games followed the same pattern with the home team winning all of them, and that continued into a fourth as the Reds have evened it up. A couple of former Rays figured into it with Jim Gebers homering for Cincinnati while Billy Haroutunian went 5 scoreless innings in relief to keep the Reds in the game.