Game 3 was awesome. I loved it and stuff. Basically, I was kind of worried going in because it was Paul Maholm vs. Roy Oswalt. Maholm hasn’t been the most effective pitcher lately for the Pirates and Oswalt shut down the Pirates a few weeks ago in Houston. Basically, everything flipped around and Maholm was just down right dominating. Meanwhile Oswalt get hit in the foot by a Pedro Alvarez liner and pretty much was off his game the rest of the afternoon. Then in came the Astros bullpen who basically handed the game over to the Pirates. Maholm pitched the whole nine innings, it was pretty awesome.
So overall, a very good season for me (or at least a very lucky one). I went 3-1 at Pirates games this year. So this is the first winning season for games I was at since 2004 (when I went 2-1). So yeah, yah for me.
As soon as the game ended, I was out of the ballpark and in my car not too long after that. Since I had everything packed and was checked out of the hotel that morning, I just started driving. And I drove from about 4:30 until about 10:00 at night. I stopped at Elkhart, Indiana. Never heard of this place before, but apparently it’s only a couple thousand people smaller than Dubuque. I can now understand how some people have never heard of Dubuque before. Even though Dubuque rocks the fucking house.
