At 38-52 through our first 90 games, Jack Bauer Squared isn’t looking like much of a contender at this point. We had a little run to get close to a wild card at 34-39, but then we dropped 13 out of 17.
But the best medicine for teams in the league has been playing Todd Helton???, so at least a series at home against the league’s other big disappointment was an opportunity. Not that we took full advantage, alas.
We opened the series at Olympic Stadium with … a one-run loss, of course. It was another close game throughout that we just couldn’t pull off, a 5-4 defeat. Burt Hooton dropped to 4-11 despite a decent 4.14 ERA.
In the second game, Mike Cuellar had one of his rare good starts with 6 innings of one-run ball as we put up a 3-1 win. Bob Woodward earned his 18th save without a blemish and kept his ERA at 0.00. The deeper it gets in the season like that, the more you wonder if he can do it all year!
The rubber game was again close and low-scoring. Bert Blyleven kept us in it with 2 runs in 6.2 innings, Carlos Delgado hit his 15th homer, and Woodward earned his 19th save in a 3-2 win.
Yes, a one-run victory! And a series victory! This is what we’re reduced to at this point, improving to 4-8 in the second half.
