Pastime Baseball League
Southern League Championship Series Review
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Game 4: San Antonio got good news with the desperately needed win in Game 3. The Sheriffs elect or bring Brandon Webb back on three days rest to try and even the series, despite a rested and healthy Jim Whitney. New Orleans counters with Mark Prior in an equally surprising move.
As it seems much of the postseason has gone, scoring begins in the bottom of the first, when Jack Fournier draws a 1-out walk and Sam Thompson follows with a double. Fournier is held at third, but scores when Topsy Hartsel hits a sac fly, making it 1-0 New Orleans.
Prior needed 8 pitches in the 2nd; Webb needed 12, and it looked like hits could again be at a premium. San Antonio tied it in the third, though, as Bobby Veach hit a one-out double before scoring on Scott Podsednik's single. Jimmy Williams would put one down the left field line for a single, but a perfect throw from Hartsel cut down Podsednik at third to end the inning.
Webb needed 8 pitches and 3rd and 8 more in the 4th, while Prior stranded a pain in the third and cruised his way through innings number 4 and 5.
Curtis Granderson singled off Webb in the 5th. Jack Rowe squared to move him over but bunted it foul. He squared a second time and bunted it foul again. Behind 0-2, Rowe took a ball, fouled two more pitches back and then took two more balls. He then hammered a 3-2 pitch over the centerfield wall for a 2-run homer, giving New Orleans a 3-1 lead.
Webb was visibly shaken on the mound, stretching his arm after taking a fresh ball from the ump. Ross Barnes flew to left before Fournier singled. But Sam Thompson bounced back to the mound, and it seemed Webb would be through the bump. Instead, he'd be through for the game.
Webb was pulled with what would ultimately be diagnosed as an impingement in his shoulder and revealed to be a condition he had fought off and on.
Deacon Phillippe relieved Webb to get Hartsel to bounce to first and retire the side.
Prior was still in a groove, needing 8 pitches again in the 6th.
Phillippe allowed a 1-out single to George Wright and a double to Prince Fielder. Wright would hold, which would prove irrelevant as Curtis Granderson tripled down the first base line, making it 5-1.
Backing up third, Phillippe rolled his ankle awkwardly and would be removed from the game. Jose Contreras relieved him, and summarily gave up a single to Rowe to make it 6-1.
Prior would cruise the distance, while the Knights picked up three more runs in the 8th on a solo homer by Fielder, a wild pitch and an RBI single from Sam Thompson, all part of the onslaught that puts San Antonio on the edge of elimination.
New Orleans 9, San Antonio 1 (New Orleans leads 3-1)