Kyle Snyder walks off the mound after helping the Sox complete a depressing bi-coastal double-dipI think I may be suffering from some rare form of baseball malaria, or possibly I'm just overwhelmed by the sheer volume of complex, come-from-behind baseball I have observed over the past four days, because I keep having scary thought slices of the Sox losing two consecutive games on opposite coasts within 24 hours of each other on walk-off solo homers by the other team.
Couldn't have really happened, could it?
Just like light-hitting Oakland second baseman Mark Ellis, he of the career .269 average, 16 triples and 43 homers in his 4+ major league seasons, couldn't possibly have notched the sixth cycle in the long & storied history of the A's franchise, and achieved the rare feat on a bloop single in extra innings.
Not possible, right?
And our beloved BoSox, proud owners of the best record and largest division lead in all of MLB, couldn't have just dropped 4 of 5 games, which would qualify this stretch as the team's worst losing run of this so far glorious season, right?
Right?!
Somebody please slap me and/or tell me this is like a hokey, mythology-based serialized drama or something, and the real Sox have actually been captured by others who have taken possession of their uniforms and started playing like, like...the Stankees!
Say it ain't so!
Please, just let this all be a bad dream, and let Dice-K return us to normalcy tonight.
Because if something really fucked up happens, like lovable Lenny DiNardo beats his former mates with a 2-hitter, I'm going to jump into a hatch and disappear forever.
***CORRECTION: Ellis' cycle was not the 6th in A's history, it was the 6th in Oakland A's history; I kinda forgot about all those years they played in Philly & Kansas City--J Rose***
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