San Francisco Giants to pilot: Turn that plane around!
Talk about your happy flights.
The San Francisco Giants found out their National League Championship Series opponent in the oddest of places: On the tarmac of a Cincinnati-area airport.
All set to fly east when the Washington Nationals took a six-run lead over the St. Louis Cardinals, the Giants got the most pleasant of surprises when the Cardinals came all the way back and, with a four-run ninth inning, eliminated the Nationals with a stunning 9-7 victory.
As the Nationals took their huge lead, the Giants gathered in the ballroom of their team hotel in Cincinnati, and proceeded to the airport. They boarded the plane, and, thankfully, had plenty of juice in their iPads.
It would be a while before they'd be asked to power down their electronic devices.
The Cardinals kept coming back, and back, and back - until they'd overcome the Nationals and handed home-field advantage in the NLCS to San Francisco.
To the Twitterverse:
Woooo that was an unbelievable game -Now is time to buckle up and head back to the Bay #OrangeOctober baby #PeleaPelea
Sitting on the runway waiting for this game to end to see where we go.. What a nail biterrrr ... WOW... Going home with home field advantage.. I like it
Nicole Vogelsong (wife of Game 2 starter Ryan Vogelsong):
The excitement on this plane right now...ahhhh!! Send us home Cards!! #SFGiants
And home they will be, thanks to the Cardinals. The bad news: How, exactly, does one put away the Cardinals?
At least they'll have four shots at home to try and figure that out.