The Maui Mashers took a commanding 3-0 lead over the Seattle Monarchs and are in a position to be the first team to take the long-reigning Monarchs out of the playoffs since 2023.
Seattle starter Ernest Metcalf became the latest pitcher to be unable to stop the Maui bats, giving up eight runs and ten hits in 4 2/3 innings. Maui's leadoff second-sacker Thomas Lyons hit his third home run of the series, and both Tae-Sang Pak and Juan Arroyo had two doubles off of Metcalf apiece.
In the nightcap, Philadelphia outlasted Brick in thirteen innings to take a 2-1 lead in their series. Philadelphia had a 7-2 lead after five and a half innings, but Alajandro Baez and Joe Younger could not hold the lead and the game went into extra frames.
Philadelphia managed to put two across the plate in the top of the 13th on a home run by C Steve Broadbent. Brick managed to push one run across in the bottom of the inning and had runners on second and third when RF Thomas Kalakay grounded weakly to first to end the game.
Game 4: Wednesday Night.
John Willis went 0-for-6 with 6 strikeouts. Wow. That's kind of hard to do.
ReplyDeleteOK, so this is where Seattle comes back to win the next 4 games, right? Don't scoff, it's happened before, in the early days of the league!
ReplyDeleteI can't remember a team losing a 3-0 lead ever before in our game, but I can remember a few 3-1 leads being lost (most recently last season).
DeleteThis sounds like a call to history...
ReplyDeleteI can't find an example of a team losing a 3-0 series lead in our league's history. There are three instances of a team coming back from a 3-1 deficit (2006 Florida over Seattle, 2019 Seattle over Hickory, 2028 Seattle over Brick), but I can't find a 3-0 deficit that has been surmounted.
I found 19 times in SDMB history that a team has fallen down 3-0. None of those series even made it to game 6. There was a sweep 10 times and the series ended in five games the other nine times.
So yeah, it's all over except the shouting. :)
Wow, I guess my memory was wrong! Thanks for the correction guys.
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