Cardinals error lifts Giants to Game 3 win

Please allow me to begin with an apology from not covering game two of the NLCS.
I was exhausted and ran out of energy in the third inning and had to go to bed.
I rarely like to offer thoughts on games that I have not seen.

The San Francisco Giants scored four runs in the first inning and then did next to nothing offensively for the next eight innings.
Fortunately for the Giants in the tenth,a lefthanded (LOOGY) reliever walked a lefty,a light hitting batter couldn't get a bunt down and then drilled a single and then another lefthanded hitter laid down a perfect bunt that said LOOGY fired down the right field line to score the game winning run 5-4.
Sergio Romo was the winning pitcher two days after allowing Kolten Wong's walkoff homer ingame two in St,Louis.
The Giants now lead the series two games to one and will send Ryan Vogelsong on Wednesday against the Cardinals young righthander Shelby Miller.....

Giant Steps

1) Tim Hudson finally got to pitch in a league championship game and he did pretty well for a while.
The Cardinals continued to chip away at the four run lead and Hudson struggled through the sixth with a one run lead.
I thought Hudson looked done,but Bruce Bochy allowed Hudson to return for the seventh and after the first out was retired despite being smoked to Gregor Blanco,Randall Grichuk took Hudson over the wall to tie the game.
Bochy gambled and he lost on that move...

2) In the crazy tenth inning,Give Gregor Blanco credit for putting his bunt attempt right where it needed to be,but the big play was Brandon Crawford working a walk off Randy Choate.
The lefty hitting shortstop against a pitcher that is devastatingly effective against lefties being able to lead off the inning with a walk made a huge difference in giving the Giants the start to the inning that was needed..

3) The winds were causing havoc at AT&T Park on this day and had to be rough on the flychasers.
AT&T Park is not known for the type of winds as the Giants former home-Candlestick Park,but on this day watching outfielders hover under flyballs like hesitant punt returners,it brought back memories of the Stick...

4) An example of the wind was on the ball thumped off the bat of Travis Ishikawa that on almost any other day would have been a grand slam in the first inning.
Instead,the ball got caught up in the wind,hit high off the wall and bounded by Randall Grichuk and cleared the bases.
It didn't seem like a big deal at the time,but had that ball cleared the wall,the Giants wouldn't have needed extra innings and we would have been robbed of the exciting ending...

5) Giants hits in the first inning:4,Rest of the game:2
That needs to rectified and soon...

6) In the history of baseball, postseason series that are tied at 1-the team that wins game three wins the series 70 percent of the time...

Will try to be back later with the Devils win over the Lightning