Big Ten - Extra Innings

By Courtney Ratkowiak - May 25, 2007

It's the bottom of the ninth, and it looks like we'll be going into extra innings. Both teams have continued their offensive surges, and the score is tied, 9-9. Minnesota scored three in the sixth to break the 5-5 tie and once in the seventh to make it a 9-5 game - but Ohio State tallied two runs in the seventh and two in the eighth for the present score. There have been almost no 1-2-3 innings here - in fact, I don't remember when the last one was - because both teams are feeding off of each other's mistakes and hitting the ball like mad. (I wonder what this game would be like if one of the teams were trying to hit off of Penn State's pitching staff. Actually, that'll happen tomorrow - so I guess we'll see then.)

And it's the end of nine, we're still tied at 9, and it's going to be at least one more inning.

There's no way that this could be called a boring game - the teams are just so evenly matched today that it's impossible to predict who's going to come through in extra innings.