The Angels were leading 7-0 going into the eighth, and I almost went to bed. But Spier allows three runs in the eighth, and Shields puts the first two on in the ninth. That set up a save situation, and in comes Francisco Rodriguez to try to tie the record. Impressively, he gets Ichiro to ground into a double play, but gives up singles to Jeremy Reed and Adrian Beltre. He'll now face Raul Ibanez as the tying run.

Update: Ibanez breaks his bat and grounds out to first. K-Rod ties Bobby Thigpen for the single season save record. It wasn't pretty, but once again Rodriguez gets the job done. Congratulations to Francisco Rodriguez on his achievement!