The calling from MLB.com made me extremely thankful for Jon. The game is always harder to follow with them, but I will admit that the game wasn't exactly one to follow.
By the third inning, there were five errors--we had three of them. And just after the third one that Aurilia made throwing, Aurilia watched a ball die in fair territory. The end of the inning was a complete annihilation for making a comeback earlier. What used to be a 3-0 lead for K.C. (three runs given up by Cain in only 1 2/3 innings, by the way), a lead that was nullified just a half inning earlier by merely two hits, became a 7-3 monstrosity. The color guy had the gall to say, "And that's all the scoring that's happened so far." Mm-hmm. He was right. The final was horrendous. I couldn't even keep track of the score, and the announcers mostly ignored it. Hey, why not: this is exactly the kind of spring game I remember from last year. It's training; some even think the training is too long now, anyway. Why not just mess around? That's a lot more fun.
At least Doug Greenwald made a good historical connection between having a team with both "Downs" and "Uribe" on the team; of course, back then, it was Kelly and Jose, and we were a much bigger threat to the NL...
FINAL
S.F. - 5
K.C. - 14
The Boys Who Showed Up: Practically N/A
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