Game 3 saw the two teams head to Annapolis, now home city for one largest soy possum processing planets in the tristate area. David Rowe decided to go for an older arm in the form Adam Schaeffer, who had pitched the deciding fifth game in the Delmar League Championship. 37 years old, Schaeffer relied more on guile than outright stuff, and his guile had been good enough on the season to gut out 16 wins.
Schaeffer would go up against Alfred Moynihan, a 30 year old righty who had put up strong numbers, 13 wins versus 6 losses and an ERA of 3.01. Anybody's game was the generally observed feelings of fans, but an important game to tilt the balance to one or the other team's favor.
The Middies were gifted a run when Andres Ferrant bobbled a routine grounder in the first. After Cueva chopped a weak grounder that Ferrant successfully charged with his only play to first, Jose Neyra hit a flyball that banged off the fence near the foul pole. The umpire signalled fair ball, and the Middies had first blood, the first run.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Middies manufactured a run, perhaps because they were struggling to get the offense going. Mickey Truong got a one-out single, and he then stole second. The centerfielder Brubaker hit a seeing-eye grounder through the hole on the right side, and it was 2-0 in favor of Annapolis.
Through the first 4 innings, Schaeffer had been flirting with danger. Still, he had managed to scatter the 2 hit batsmen, 3 walks, a single and a double without anything scoring against him. Finally, the fifth inning let the Millers grind out a run. Baeza led off with a single, and moved to second on Schaeffer's wild pitch. Rowe elected to have Schaeffer intentionally walk Rhyne.
On a high fastball that looked for all the world a chance for Coil to hit deep, he got way too far under it, and hit a pop up behind the plate. Schaeffer then fed another high fastball to Eddie McGill and he got it deep to right centerfield. But not deep enough to go out; still the sacrifice fly moved Baeza to third, and he scored when the catcher Suniga singled him home.
And that was it. Neither team could do anything more, and closer Robert Rozek retired all 5 batters he faced to preserve a 2-1 victory for Annapolis.
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BOX SCORES Allentown @ Annapolis
Game #: 1634, (GAME LOG) , Monday, 10/18/1999
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Allentown 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 1
Annapolis 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 2 4 0
Allentown AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI
E. Bearce 2B 5 0 0 0 0 0 4 .133 0 1
G. Baeza RF 4 1 1 0 1 1 1 .179 1 3
B. Rhyne CF 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 .344 3 9
Z. Coil LF 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 .129 0 2
E. McGill 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 .267 0 7
D. Suniga C 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 .194 3 8
A. Ferrant SS 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 .103 0 0
T. Segovia 3B 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 .250 0 0
1-R. Degnan PH 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 0 0
2-H. Jones 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .364 1 1
A. Moynihan P 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 .000 0 0
3-G. Castrjn PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .200 0 0
R. Starks P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1 4 4 22 .244 135 670
Substitution Notes
1 - R. Degnan pinch hit for T. Segovia in the 8th
2 - H. Jones substituted for R. Degnan in the 8th
3 - G. Castrejon pinch hit for A. Moynihan in the 8th
BATTING
Doubles: T. Segovia (1, 2nd inning off Schaeffer, 1 on, 1 out.)
Runs Batted In: D. Suniga (8)
Sacrifice Hits: A. Moynihan (1)
Team LOB: 8
FIELDING
Errors: A. Ferrant
Annapolis AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI
B. Landeros LF 4 0 0 0 0 3 0 .290 2 3
R. Bozek C 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 .097 0 1
J. Cueva 2B 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 .346 1 3
J. Neyra 3B 4 0 1 1 0 1 1 .188 1 7
M. Truong 1B 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 .385 0 5
W. Brubaker CF 3 0 1 1 0 2 1 .286 1 5
J. Sauceda SS 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 .214 0 3
M. Jones RF 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 .067 0 0
A. Schaeffer P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0
1-M. Fishel PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 0 0
L. Casares P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0
R. Rozek P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Totals 29 2 4 2 2 10 7 .257 159 745
Substitution Notes
1 - M. Fishel pinch hit for A. Schaeffer in the 7th
BATTING
Doubles: J. Neyra (2, 1st inning off Moynihan, 1 on, 2 out.)
Runs Batted In: J. Neyra (7), W. Brubaker (5)
Stolen Bases: M. Truong 2 (4)
Team LOB: 5
Allentown IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA RECORD
A. Moynihan L 7 4 2 1 1 9 0 93 60 2.60 1-1
R. Starks 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 17 8 2.57
PITCHING
Batters Faced: A. Moynihan 27, R. Starks 4
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: A. Moynihan 9-4, R. Starks 1-1
Game Score: A. Moynihan 71
Annapolis IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA RECORD
A. Schaeffer W 7 5 1 1 4 2 0 103 58 2.84 2-0
L. Casares H 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 5 4.50
R. Rozek S 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 0 14 11 1.59 3 SV
PITCHING
Wild Pitches: A. Schaeffer
Intentional BB: A. Schaeffer
Batters Faced: A. Schaeffer 32, L. Casares 2, R. Rozek 5
Inherited Runners-Scored: R. Rozek 1-0
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: A. Schaeffer 10-7, L. Casares 1-0, R. Rozek 0-3
Game Score: A. Schaeffer 61
GAME INFO
Time: 2:54
Attendance: 44957 (45000, 99.9%) at Annapolis Ballpark
Weather: Clear skies (61 degrees), wind blowing right to left at 9 mph
PLAYER OF THE GAME: Adam Schaeffer