There was a twitter retweet by Rob Neyer who suggested someone lead with that for a headline. Obviously for a blog like mine its much easier to do than a national blog or newspaper, but its fun to do anyway. Last night concluded the first week in baseball, and also concluded our league’s first week of head to head. Many of your know that this blog features two leagues here, one that I have run with my circle of friends, and one that I started this season and opened to the Internet.

This post is for the circle of friends league, as last night before the two night games my match-up with my fiancee was in a dead heat. I had a 22 point lead thanks to a great start by Ubaldo Jiminez, and a lackluster start by her Johan Santana. Because of the rain delay in San Francisco we had two games on our table and 7 players in play between us.  She had Ricky Weeks, Prince Fielder, Yadier Molina, Ryan Franklin, and I had Billy Wagner, Brian Wilson, and Matt Holliday.

Half way through the night, I was sweating the 1 run game in San Fransisco as that makes blown saves much easier to come by, and that would potentially ruin my week. On the other channel, Weeks gets a single, homer, and a walk, Prince Fielder adds a single and a walk, Yadier got a couple points as well.

Headed into the 8th inning of the Giants/Braves game I was only up by 7 points, a blown save is worth -10, so imagine my nerves as Brian Wilson began warming up. Meanwhile the Cardinals are managing a come back which could mean a Ryan Franklin save (usually around 8 points assuming no homers, walks allowed).

My fiancee and I sat in nervous anticipation as we knew the climax of the night was coming. Thankfully the Giants led by Pablo Sandoval took a 4 run lead, removing any chance for a save situation. However, that hurt as well because I could have used some positive points from Brian Wilson to help pad my lead as my fiancee was a double and a homer away, or simply a save, to win.

Trevor Hoffman comes in the game to “shut down” the Cardinals, and Pujols who is 0-6 lifetime against Hoffman, to which my fiancee says, “He sucks against Hoffman, its all over” Pujols promptly answers with a home run. My boy Matt Holliday after a 0 for 4 showing, follows up Pujols with a back to back homer. Thus giving me the padding I needed.

The two teams were tied at 7 and Hoffman got out of the inning.  In the bottom of the ninth the Brewers were able to manage a solo walk off homer thus ending an exciting week of fantasy baseball. My fiancee bummed by her loss, but we both agreed that it was very fun that it was at least very close. I love baseball.