Los Angeles [A] 5, New York [A] 3: Not quite the finish I was expecting. Ervin Santana was the hero filling in for the injured Bartolo Colon, but his initial inning was shaky enough: back-to-back-to-back walks, followed by a single by the nine hitter and a sac fly. But the Angels took back control of the game in their half of the second, thanks to GAnderson and Kennedy, and blooped Messina to death in the third. Thereafter, Santana took control of the game, the Angels dominated the tail end of the Yankees' lineup, and A-Rod and Matsui couldn't hit in the clutch to save their grannys' lives. After Jeter's home run in the seventh, I began having flashbacks to 1986, and with the Yankees getting three singles in the Ninth, my queasiness about the stopper abilities of K-Rod seemed justified. But stellar defense got the job done, again, and it's on to the North Side.

Now comes the hard part. Who's gonna start after Game 1?