Thursday, February 18, 2010

Cleveland Takes Game 1

The Cleveland Steamers took Game 1 of the Cecil Cup with a 2-1 victory over the Saskatoon Amigos. Cleveland drew first blood in the first with a lead-off home run by Monte Goss off of starting pitcher Thomas Cohen's third pitch.

The Amigos responded in the next inning with a solo home run by their post-season sensation, SS Royal Wilson.

The score remained tied 1-1 until the bottom of the fourth when the Steamers' Ronald Aiken led off with a single against Jeff Blevins. Tyler Thomas followed that with a double to left, sending Aiken to third. After William Midkiff grounded out for the first out of the inning, Chet Edwards hit a fly ball to center, allowing Aiken to score on the sacrifice without a throw.

After that, it all belonged to the pitchers. From the fourth inning on, only one runner reached third base (William Midkiff, after getting on base with a two-out error and stealing third).

Game 2 will be Sunday night.

Zev

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  2. How could you not mention the fact that Cohen is out for the rest of the series, Zev?! :) Bad luck for Saskatoon there.

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  3. Very unfortunate Eric. It was a great game though, and I don't think the outcome would have been much different as Blevins came in and pitched very well for the 6 innings he had to. Kaler with another steller performance with 1 ER and 12 Ks in 8 IP. We are seeing a star in the makings.

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  4. Yeah, losing the game and my #1 starter for the playoffs, to go along with my already-sidelined #1 hitter, really sucks.

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