Game 2: Brick Holds On To Tie Series

The Brick Barracudas held off a late inning surge from the Seattle Monarchs to tie the Cecil Cup series at one game apiece.

Brick got off to a quick start against Seattle starter Chris Williams by pushing five runners across the plate in the top of the first inning, with the big blow being a three run homer by Larry McCormick.

Seattle and Brick traded some runs over the next few innings, until the score stood at 7-1 in the middle of the sixth inning.  At that point, the Monarch bats woke up and scored two runs in the sixth (on back-to-back solo homers by Norman Kuhn and Yvon Settingnino).

Brick responded with three runs in the seventh, making the score 10-3.

In the bottom of the seventh, Seattle pushed across two more runs (two run homer by Luis Lozano) and three more in the eighth (three run blast by Sung-heun Hwa) to bring the Monarchs to within a single run.

In the bottom of the ninth, Brick brought in closer Carlos Placeres to shut the Monarchs down.  After strking out Luis Lozano to start the inning, Norman Kuhn doubled to left.  Yvon Settignino struck out swinging and Steve Jones hit an infield single, sending Kuhn to third.  With the tying run on third, right fielder Mike Minty came to the plate.  Minty was 1-3 so far, with 2 RBI in the game.  However, on the first pitch Placeres managed to induce a grounder to second to end the game and give Brick the victory.

Game 3:  Wednesday night.

Expected Starters:
Seattle:  Enrico Hernandez (18-5, 4.35)
Brick: Ethan Moyer (6-1, 4.18)