Wow! What a ballgame!

When the COLORADO ROCKIES and the SAN DIEGO PADRES concluded the 162-game regular season in the National League, they sported identical records (89-73) and shared the lead in the standings to determine the Wild Card playoff spot.
The teams quit sharing that lead tonight, but only after Colorado claimed an epic, 9-8 victory over San Diego in 13 innings.
In the bottom half of the frame, KAZUO MATSUI and Santa Clara, Calif., native TROY TULOWITZKI hit back-to-back doubles. MATT HOLLIDAY tripled to tie the score and eventually scored the winning run on JAMEY CARROLL's sacrifice fly -- all three of the Rockies' runs in the inning were scored off San Diego's ace reliever TREVOR HOFFMAN.
It was amazing stuff.

Thanks to the Major League Baseball Gameday Audio subscription we purchased this spring, we listened to tonight's game on XX Sports Radio, the flagship station of the Padres.
TED "My Padres" LEITNER and ANDY MASUR handled most of the play-by-play, save for a couple innings featuring Padres' legend (and San Francisco native) JERRY COLEMAN, who has been broadcasting San Diego's games for 35 seasons.
XEPRS-AM 1090 is based in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, and boasts a memorable history.
In the 1960s, this "Mexican border buster" broadcast WOLFMAN JACK into the United States as station XERB-AM, "The Mighty 10-90."
Now, as "Double-X Sports Radio," the station is home to the Padres and University of San Diego Toreros basketball broadcasts.