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Judging on your leave, it sounded like it was just "one of those games", where the answer was probably as "simple" as more or less revs, speed, start forward/back of normal on the approach by a hair, loft it a little more/less, more/less axis rotation, or some combination thereof. Unfortunately, there's only a possible 12 first ball opportunities in a game so if you lose your line by a hair, it's sometimes hard to figure out "which hair to pluck". Sounds like you just made the wrong adjustments; nothing more, nothing less, as you were still in the pocket from the sounds of it. You weren't leaving 4's and washouts and stuff like that, and it wasn't like my three stone 9's in a row (like I had in city tournament singles, grrrrr) where it was one consistent miss for which you could adjust.

By my count you ended up with 697. Should have been a seven from the sounds of it, though I'm wondering if you didn't miss some spares you shouldn't have if you only had 2 splits (that you mentioned) and yet ended up with 150.

Then again, one thing to consider that could throw all the rest in the garbage is that there would be carrydown in game 3, which meant that the finish could have been just a tad lighter, maybe even invisible to the naked eye. Except in the pin count. This goes back to physical and line tweaks but maybe if you moved to something that was a little lower on the RG it would have driven through the carrydown a little better.
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