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My sister, who does not like sports at all, just called me at 12:17am. She wanted to talk about the game.

"It's so exciting!" she said with a certain tone of helplessness to her voice. "They just needed one more out, and they, they got it!"

She was stuck without a TV, so she watched the whole thing on MLB GameDay. I got to tell her about the blood soaking through Curt Schilling's sock and the A-Rod interference fiasco. And the riot police.

"I can't believe you're up," she said at one point. "Don't you have to work tomorrow?"

"Don't you have to work tomorrow?"

"...Yeah."

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[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

At one point in the 8th inning, after Alex Rodriguez had been called out for offensive interference, the fans got really upset. According to the sportscasters, they were throwing baseballs and other objects onto the field, and we got many shots of umpires conferring with high-ranking police officials (one guy had two stars on his shoulderboards, and another had what appeared to be four or five stars). There was significant pointing into the crowd, and they appeared to be pointing at a few distinct locations, although it was hard to tell at home.

The police officials then waved some cops in riot helmets and some sort of bulky clothing (might have been body armor, but I couldn't tell) out of the dugouts, and approximately a dozen came out of each dugout and moved down to where the tarps are kept rolled up along each foul line. They knelt down on one knee, originally facing into the crowd, but they soon turned to face the batter's box, although at least one cop continued to watch the crowd at each moment. No weapons were drawn, although I saw then all with long batons.

They stayed out through the rest of the eigth and the top half of the ninth, and then they went back into the dugouts. The announcers didn't mention the crowd getting unruly or throwing objects onto the field of play for the rest of the broadcast.