It was good even if I got woken up with the head phone blaring each team's ninth inning big play, the tying single and that most final blast.

We get WMVP Chicago 1000 on the AM dial clear as a bell here most days. They are the White Sox home station and I prefer to listen to local broadcasters rather than the nation-wide talking heads on TV. None of that "I love to visit this town" talk. I was kinda rooting for Houston if only to avoid a sweep in the series and I thought things were going well when Burke got home as described in the New York Times this morning:

Jeff Bagwell singled to lead off the ninth, and Jenks walked Chris Burke with one out. It was the first walk by the White Sox this series, and it was costly. After a ground out moved the runners to second and third, Jose Vizcaino dumped a single to shallow left. Bagwell scored easily, and Burke had not even hit third base by the time Podsednik gathered the ball. But the Houston third-base coach, Doug Mansolino, waved Burke home, and he slid artfully at the plate, avoiding the tag of A. J. Pierzynski and tagging the plate with his hand.

Because baseball is a system, a playing out of rules in short stages, a description like that can capture the action - unlike a flow game like soccer or hockey. Too bad the next bit of action didn't need so much text. The White Sox hit a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth to win as the ball sailed out.