Seattle took Game 1 of the Adams League Division Series from the Hickory Huskers with an 11-6 victory. Seattle jumped out to a three run lead by the end of the second and never looked back. Ronald Placencia went 7 2/3 innings, giving only 2 runs for the win. Armando Cedeno pitched in with a 4-4 day in the leadoff spot.
It took all nine innings for the Cleveland Steamers to pull a victory out against the River Cities Sternwheelers. River Cities took a commanding six run lead in the first inning (all the runs are marked as unearned... but I'm sure that that's wrong) on the strength of a William Ward grand slam. A solo home run by Patrick Valdez in the second made the score 7-0.
It took until the fifth inning for the Steamers to get on the board. Seven hits (including a lead-off triple by Nathaneal Burton) put a five-spot on the board for Cleveland. River Cities added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth to make the score 8-5.
Gary Smith, however, just couldn't hold it for the Sternwheelers. A missed third strike and a single put two runners on for Tyler Thomas who hit a 356 foot shot to left to tie the game at 8-8. And so the score stood until the top of the ninth when longtime River Cities reliever Willie Egan lost the game. Michael Fay, possibly playing the last season in his storied career, came off the bench to hit a pinch-hit two run home run in his first playoff at bat to put the Steamers ahead for good.
The league file is up and reports should be along shortly.
Game 2 -- Saturday night.
And Egan's the one who wants $7MM per year for three years to resign! That figures.
ReplyDeleteWhen's the next game?
And what the flying fuck is going on? MILLER starts for me? And did you mean to start Kaler, Jeremy?
I did mean to start Kaler, I had a problem with Gerth in the last days of an injury and Keopp and Minton starting the last two games of the season. It was either Kaler or Sanders, and I thought this was the best option, I think I might have been wrong seeing how he got shelled and Mitchell came in with 4 fairly good innings. Miller did not pitch poorly, but he is no Villatoro who would have shut me down. So you spotted me one. Let the series start at game 2.
ReplyDeleteAlso Zev, with the error by Grondin in the first, all of the runs were unearned, saving Kaler's postseason ERA. If he had retired Amos on that error then the K by Suarez with the bases loaded would have ended the inning, but the error extended the inning and let all the runs score, including the Grand Slam by The Warden.
ReplyDeleteI feel for Nate. I've had that happen in the past. But, in my case, it was usually because I'd screwed something up in the pitching rotation or seven-day line-up pages.
ReplyDeleteOr, at least, that's what I thought. I don't see anything like that on Nate's pages. Maybe the game just does it randomly to screw with people.
By the way, woo hoo for Game 1 win!