I don’t post a lot of extra innings games here, although I love long game and mourn their endangered status due to the runner on second to start the inning rule. But posting scoresheets of extra innings games just means twice the work, since all my sheets are designed for nine innings and I use a whole new sheet for the extra frames.
The Indians rallied for two runs after two were out in the seventh (the runs pushed across on Belliard’s double), then loaded the bases with none out in the eighth. But Jody Gerut grounded to D’Angelo Jimenez, who threw home and started a double play, and Casey Blake struck out looking. Both sides were retired with little trouble in the ninth, and so it was extra innings. Nothing much happened (other than David Riske fanning five of seven Reds he faced) until there were two outs in the bottom of the eleventh, when Casey Blake singled off Phil Norton and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Presumably, Norton pitched especially carefully to Travis Hafner after the wild pitch, and walked him. But then he walked Ronnie Belliard on four straight. Lou Merloni pinch-hit against the lefty; down in the count 1-2, he coaxed three straight balls for a walkoff walk.
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