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For those of you who weren't watching, Cubs were down 2, with 2 outs and one baserunner.  Stratton nibbled around the dangerous, powerful Alcantara.  Rivas hit a single into right, nobody close, although the outfielders were playing super deep.  6-5.  They didn't take RHP Stratton out against Unstoppable Ortega, and he ripped a line drive to right.  RF Gamel was playing really deep, kind of took a semi-dive and the ball was in his glove more than a foot above the ground, but he'd kinda over-dived, and he missed it.  The liner was right in Gamel's glove, in the first place, so he could/should have had it. 
-I thought Romine, pinch-running for Rivas, should be able to score from 1st on all of this, but he was stopped at 3rd, even though he had a shot under even a decent throw-relay, and the actual throw was kinda of wild and wasn't fielded smoothly behind 2B. 
-Heh heh, maybe the coach at 3B figured why take any risk when the Sultan of Schwin was coming up next? 
-Schwindel ripped a hard grounder deep into the hole, Newman made a great play and a difficult jump-throw; throw had Schwin beat, but the throw was off.  Schwindel did a tricky wide-slide head-first, Moran did a sweep through that beat Schindel's hand to the bag.  The ump called him safe, Cubs were all celebrating, but the call was challenged.  To me it looked like the tag was definitely on and that he was out.  But they tend not to change calls, and it wasn't super obvious, so the call stood. 

What a fun run for Schwindel.