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🎙️ Chris “Mad Dog” Russo — RELIEVED After NLCS Game 3
San Francisco Giants 12
Miami Marlins 11
Giants lead NLCS 2–1
📍 LoanDepot Park
OH. MY. GOODNESS.
I need a glass of water after that one!
Twelve to eleven?! In October?! On the road?! In front of 53,000 people who thought they were about to steal control of this series?!
The Giants tried to give this game away three different times — and somehow they’re walking out of Miami with a 2–1 lead!
Let’s start here: Tim Snapp. TWO home runs. Nine total bases. Three runs scored. Player of the Game — and deservedly so. Every time this lineup needed oxygen, he delivered it.
But the seventh inning? That’s where this game flipped on its head.
They’re down 6–4. You’re thinking, “Uh oh. Marlins got momentum.” And then —
Steve Taylor — BOOM! Solo shot.
Travis Campbell gets plunked.
Bill Valenzuela — TWO-RUN HOMER!
Snapp — ANOTHER homer!
And they didn’t stop! Hit after hit after hit! Eight runs in the inning! EIGHT! In an NLCS game on the road!
That’s championship firepower!
Valenzuela again coming through — two homers, three RBIs. The guy’s hitting over .400 this postseason! Santo Domingo’s finest just keeps delivering in the biggest spots.
And Steve Taylor? Three hits, three RBIs, nine total bases! He was everywhere!
But here’s the part that’ll keep Giants fans awake tonight —
You’re up 12–6… and you can’t relax for one second.
Miami claws back. Kawazu triples. Sigaran’s got four runs scored. Holte driving balls all over the park. They make it 12–8. Then 12–11 in the eighth. You can feel the walls closing in!
And in the eighth inning — bases loaded, chaos everywhere — Tomoo Kawazu grounds into a double play.
That saved the season tonight. That’s the ballgame right there.
Then Martinez comes out in the ninth and somehow, SOMEHOW, gets three clean outs. No drama. No tying run on second. Just three outs and get on the plane feeling grateful.
This wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t clean. The pitching? Shaky. Bachus gave up six. The bullpen bent like a palm tree in a hurricane.
But they survived.
And in October, sometimes survival is enough.
Now the pressure flips. Giants up 2–1. Miami just threw everything they had at them — 15 hits! 11 runs! — and still lost.
You don’t apologize for road wins in the League Championship Series.
You take ’em. You breathe. And you get ready for tomorrow.
Because if this series keeps going like this?
We’re gonna need defibrillators.
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