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GAME 2 2014 WORLD SERIES 7:05 CST (7:11 after the eagle descends on home plate)
Philadelphia @ San Antonio
Andrew Olson (1-2 3.81) vs Noah Jenkins (0-1 8.10)
Jenkins appears to be nervous, very fidgety. Rodriguez pops to 3rd to start. Kevin Peters works to a full count and draws a walk. Jenkins throws a 1-2 high fastball by Ladd and Arredondo does the exact same thing on a 3-2 count. 0-0 bottom 1.
Bradshaw drills the 2nd pitch he see into the left center field gap for a lead off double. Silver Star fans are up and rocking!
O’Gorman goes F7 on the 1st pitch, Sparks hits a tapper back to the mound on his first pitch and Peters pops his 1-0 pitch to 2nd. Inning over, 6 pitches. 0-0 after 1.

Chavez goes 5-3 on the first pitch (it HAS to be Steve Ripley’s strike zone here, these are some offensive superstars making a slew of outs on 1-2 pitch AB’s.)
Land actually DOES work the count and pays for it as Ripley rings him up on a 2-2 fastball.
Tom Byrd gets the Philly bench up and the few fans from Philly here in San Antonio when he drills a ball into the RF corner and strolls into 3rd with a standup triple!
Jenkins and Fleming grind and battle to a 1-2 count, 3 foul balls later and Ripley rings him up. 0-0 bottom 2.
Williams gets a 2-2 fastball to lead off, and drills a solid single to left.
Greg Wise is called out looking on a 3-2 curve ball that many believe ONLY Steve Ripley thought was a strike.
Esteban Caballero appears to want no part of Ripley deciding his fate, and reaches out of the zone on a 1-0 pitch, rolling a tailor made 6-4-3 for his effort. 0-0 after 2 full.

Mills starts the 3rd with a 0-1 single, Jenkins K’s Rodriguez swinging on a 0-2 split.
Kevin Peters pops to first and Ladd takes a 2-2 pitch that was all black, for the K to end the inning. 0-0 bottom 3.
Villalobos 1-2 K
Ledoux 0-0 lazy F8
Bradshaw 0-1 3 unassisted.
Took me longer to type than it did Olson to do. 8 pitch 3 out inning. Heading to the 4th, no score.

Jenkins works Arredondo to 0-2 again, but this time he pushes a ball into the 1st base hole for a leadoff single.
Chavez gets to 2-2 and his 5 hopper has eyes, into left for back to back singles to start the 4th.
Land JUST MISSES a 1-1 fastball, pulling it about 12,343 feet to left, just foul……
He follows that up by smashing a 1 hopper to short for the 6-4-3.
Byrd, with a runner on 3rd, works the count to 3-2 and……..
Punches out chasing a filthy 3-2 split. Bottom 4, no score.
O’Gorman flies to the track in center for the 1st out.
Sparks draws a walk and Pat Peters drills a single past his brother, again, to put runners at 1st and 2nd.
Dave Williams gets to 0-2 in 2 pitches, but fouls off 5 straight, then grounds to 2nd where Mitchell Mills kicks it to load the bases.
Greg Wise takes a 1-0 pitch and hits a deep fly ball to center, Sparks walks home with the games 1st run.
Caballero steps in with a chance to open it up,
But Olson gets to 1-2 and gets him chasing another FB up out of the zone. 1-0 San Antonio after 4.

The most important half inning of any start is the half after your team scores. The “shutdown’ inning it is called, and great pitchers win A LOT of games because they know it, and do it. Jenkings K’s Fleming to start the 5th (his 8th on the day).
Mitchell Mills goes 5-3 and Rodriguez flies to shallow right. 1-0 Stars bottom 5.
Olson and Villalobos engage in one of those AB’s that ONLY gets noticed this time of year, It ends in a pop out to short, but it takes Olson 10 pitches to do it. An out, but what is always considered ‘productive’ because you get the pitcher to use almost an innings worth of pitches to do it (especially in this game, series so far!)
Ledoux goes F-8 on a 1-2 pitch and Bradshaw punches out on a nasty slider. 1-0 Silver Stars after 5.

Jenkins gets Kevin Peters swinging to start the 6th, his 9th.
After a Dave Ladd 6-3 (on a 0-1) Carlos Arredondo singles to left (on a 1-0 pitch)
Chavez goes 0-2, and ends the inning with a 5-3 ground out. 1-0 San Antonio, bottom 6.
Olson does it again. O’Gorman F9 (1 pitch) Sparks K’s swinging (3 pitches) and Pat Peters ground to 1st unassisted (2 pitches). 6 pitches, 3 outs. 1-0 after 6.

Land goes F8 on the first pitch of the inning.
Tom Byrd becomes this games outlier, working the count full! And drawing a walk.
Jenkins gets to 0-2 on Fleming and after a borderline ball 1 punches him out on a fastball that tied him up.
Mitchell Mills gets to 1-2 and Ripley rings him up on the front door slider for Jenkins 11th K. Bottom 7 Philly still trailing by 1.
Olson reaches double digits! In an inning pitch count that is. Williams works a 3-0 count and has the green light, which he uses but shouldn’t have, hitting a weak grounder to 1st.
Gregory Wise hits the very next pitch, popping it up to short. 2 outs.
Caballero goes to a 2-2 count and Ripley rings yet another hitter up on a borderline pitch. End of 7, 1-0 San Antonio.

Jenkins notches his 12th K of the day as Rodriguez chases a 2-2 fastball to start the inning.
Kevin Peters hacks at another first pitch…. And drills a ball down the left field line that, from all appearances if clearly a foul ball! LF ump Brian O’Nora say no, fair ball! Peters is standing at 2nd with a double.
Dave Ladd proceeds to swing at yet another first pitch!
And his grounder finds the hole on the left side, Peters comes home easily and the Freedom tie it up!
Jenkins gets Arredondo on a 2-2 heater for the 2nd out and his IBL Playoff record I believe, 13th K!
Salvador Chavez punches a soft single to right and Ladd strolls into 3rd standing up.
There’s some murmuring going on and the only thing discernible is “Grady Little” and “Red Sox” and something about 2003……
Dan Land actually waits 1 pitch before he swings….
And his lazy fly ball to right is caught to end the inning. Game tied, heading to the bottom of 8.

OUT OF CHARACTER MOMENT
Not sure I can tell ya how much fun I am having right now, I have NO idea how this game ends, or when, yet…..

Back to the game, 1-1 bottom 8.
Olson still in there. Villalobos K’s looking on a 1-2 hanging split; Ledoux drills the 1st pitch in the hole past Mills at 2nd for a single.
Bradshaw goes to 2-1 and San Antonio puts on the hit and run.
Bradshaw hits a long fly ball to center but Rodriguez runs it down, Ledoux gets back easily.
O’Gorman pops to left to end the inning. Game 2 is headed to the 9th, all tied at 1!

Byrd works a full count to start the inning and ends up going 6-3. A VERY productive out as Noah Jenkins has thrown to his last hitter (8.1-8-1-1-2-13) in one of the better pitched playoff games ever. His 13 K’s are in fact an FL Playoff game record, the IBL record was 11 (Mattieu Cafasso (LV) 10.11.12) and Steve Copeland (10 yesterday! And 10 on the 9th of this month) and George Bean (SAC) had 10 1 year ago yesterday. FWIW Jenkins recorded a 92 game score!
Raul Quintana gets the call.
He walks his first hitter, Manny Navarro, on 4 straight.
Mitchell Mills hits a slow roller to 2nd and Navarro moves up.
Jose Rodriguez gets 2 strikes and fouls off 3 straight pitches before being rung up on a 3-2 fastball. Bottom 9, 1-1…..
Olson’s day is over (8-4-1-0-1-7), what an amazing performance.
Closer Julio Arroyo is back on the bump 1 day after a nightmare experience and San Antonio fans don’t appear to want him to forget. There’s Pat Peter’s masks everywhere….
Lou Sparks works a full count to lead off, and Arroyo throws a 99mph heater by him.
Peters strolls to the plate and this place just erupts! Pat works to a 2-1 count and hits a 454 foot pop up, 277 feet up, 277 feet down….
With 2 outs Dave Williams lines a single to right.
Greg Wise gets into an 0-2 hole but manages to slap a ball to the left side that finds the hole. 1st and 2nd 2 outs….
Esteban Caballero gets after the first pitch and just slams a rocket past a diving Kevin Peters to left.
Unfortunately it’s hit so hard Dave Williams has NO chance of scoring on the hit.
Bases juiced, Roberto Villalobos coming up….
Ball, foul, ball…
Another sky high pop up that 1B Tom Byrd wanders near the stands, and fans actually reach over onto the field to try and catch the ball! 1B Ump Steve Palermo rules fan interference, and Villalobos is out! No one is arguing so clearly it was a ‘good’ call I guess…
Onto the 10th, 1-1!
Holy cow, not sure I can take this!
Kevin Peters pops to 3rd; Dave Ladd goes 3-0 and gets the green light…..
And proceeds to hit 6 foul balls in a row, all over the yard…
The AB ends when Quintana walks him.
Carlos Arredondo flails badly at a 1-2 offering for out #2.
On the 1st pitch to Salvador Chavez Ladd takes off. Catcher Esteban Caballero makes a perfect toss and tags Ladd to end the inning. Bottom 10, 1-1.
Arroyo stays in.
Ledoux goes 6-3
Bradshaw has a 9 pitch AB end with a swinging K.
O’Gorman goes 0-2 and Ripley rings him up on a 1-2 heater away. Onto the 11th.

Quintana on for his 3rd inning.
Chavez goes 5-3 on 3 pitches, Land punches out swinging on 3 pitches and Tom Byrd goes 4-3 on 2 pitches to end a quick top of 11. 1-1 to the bottom of the 11th.
Elmer Osborn takes over for Arroyo (2-3-0-0-0-3) to start the 11th.
He goes 0-2 on Sparks and immediately wakes the whole place up when his high and tight 0-2 fastball drills Spark in his mid back….
Sparks tosses his bat, picks up the ball and fires it back at Arroyo. The Latin righty is clearly fuming too…
Pat Peters drills the 1st pitch down the 3B line!
Kevin Peters dives….
Falling away from the field he scoops and fires a rocket to Ledoux who relays to O’Gorman….
DOUBLE PLAY! Holy crap! That’s some brotherly love right there.
The crowd actually applauds; I think they’re applauding both players actually!
Dave Williams gets 4 straight balls and draws a 2 out walk.
Greg Wise hits a 1-0 fastball to left center….
And Jose Roqriguez grabs it off his shoe tops to end the inning. Williams was way past 2nd, that ball drops this game is over. 1-1 heading to 12…

Quintana still in.
Navarro lines a 1-0 pitch to deep left center, but Sparks runs it down for the first out.
Mitchell Mills takes Quintana’s first pitch and CRUSHES a ball to deep center; Wise is on a dead sprint to the wall….
And the ball hits about 2 feet from the top as Mills rounds 2nd and comes into third with a stand up triple.
No movement in the Silver Stars dugout, Quintana’s game to lose?
3B Kevin Peters steps up, perhaps thinking pay back? He looks down at 3rd, his brother is back a bit….Um, bunt? Could he possibly push a 2 out bunt to third? No way….
He fouls off the first pitch and Quintana throws 3 straight balls. On the 3-1 pitch he rifles a shot between first and second….
Into right field for a single, Mitchell Mills crosses the plate, Philly leads 2-1!
Dave Ladd gets into a 0-2 hole quickly…
And lines a 0-2 single to right, Peters stops at 2nd.
That’s it for Quintana (3.1-3-1-1-2-4), Closer Julio Salinas, last night’s winner, is coming in to face Philly slugger Carlos Arredondo.
That was quick, Arredondo drills the first pitch he sees to deep right but Villallobos tracks it down, inning over, bottom of the 12th, 3 outs left for San Antonio, down 2-1. Their fans are on their feet…
Barry MacKinney in to play 1B for Philly.
Elmer Osborn still in.
Caballero leads off, hitting a 0-1 pitch to medium left for the 1st out.
Osborn, on a 0-1 pitch, drills Villalobos.
Barney Ledoux takes a 1-1 pitch and hits a seeing eye grounder between 1st and 2nd and Villalobos was off on the pitch, and gets to third standing up! The noise in the stadium is deafening!
Ron Bradshaw up next, 1st and 3rd 1 out.
K, Ball, foul, ball, foul, ball, 3-2 heater…
Bradshaw hits a shallow pop up between third, short, and left that falls into no man’s land! TIE GAME! Villalobos scores, Ledoux stops at second!
HOLY CRAP! Are you kidding me!!
Kelly O’Gorman, feeling insanely good at the plate from everything we can see, decides to get stupid.
He hits a weak 2 hopper on a bad 1st pitch, for a 6-4-3 inning ending DP. Just like that the rally dies. BUT! 2-2, heading to a 13th inning!

Salinas still in the game. Salvador Chavez draws a leadoff walk. Dan Land pulls an “O’Gorman”, hitting the first pitch on a hop to short for the 6-4-3.
Brady Hardin gets the call; he PH’s for Tom Byrd and it seems Manager Jose Solis can do no wrong. Hardin lines a 1-2 fastball into the hole for a single.
Manny Navarro fouls off a few pitches and on a 1-2 fastball…
He hits a liner to center that Greg Wise runs down, to the bottom of 13, 2-2!
Hardin now at 1st for Philly.
Sparks leads off with a 6-3.
Pat Peter gets in a hole 1-2 and K’s swinging at an Osborn cuter.
Dave Williams is 0-2 right away and k’s swinging on the same pitch, same spot. 2-2 into the 14th inning.
Salinas is still in the game!
Mitchell Mills works a full count to start the inning, but Salinas still has fuel in the tank as the 96MPH heater will attest. Mills k’s swinging.
Rodriguez gets to 2-2 and Salinas brings it out again, this time at 98. K#2 of the inning.
Jon Sloan is summoned from the pen, what a job by Julio Salinas (2-1-0-0-1-2). This could cost him a game 3 appearance given his workload this year.
Sloane faces the “Fake Peters” as he’s now known in San Antonio. Called K, foul, ball, foul, foul…
And he’s NOT the “Fake Peters” anymore! Kevin drills the 1-2 fastball DEEEP down the left field line, and it clears the 345 mark by less than a foot, and inches from a leaping Lou Sparks at the wall for a 2 out, 2 strike tie breaking solo HR! Holy CRAP the Peters family has to be freaking out!
Sloan is clearly distraught. He’s taking a whole bunch of time before toeing the rubber to face Dave Ladd.
Ladd then lines his first pitch to left center for a 2 out single. Carlos Arredondo works to a full count and draws a 2 out walk. A meeting on the mound ensues…
PC Scott Gassaway “Sloanie?”
Sloan “Ya?”
PC “How about that rack, front row, 1st base dugout, 3 seats in from the right side?”
Sloan “coach….”
PC “Ya?”
Sloan “that’s my wife dude”
PC “No sweat, take a breath, make a pitch and get us back in the dugout, c’mon kid”.
…………………Happened……….
Must have worked. Salvador Chavez grounds the next pitch to short for an inning ending 6-3. Bottom of the 14th coming, 3-2 Philly. Is their magic brewing?
Osborn remains in the game.
Gregory Wise lines a 1-0 fastball past a diving Kevin Peters for a leadoff single…… No way, no f’ng way…..
Esteban Caballero drops a gorgeous sac that Osborn fields and get him at first. Wise to 2nd.
Villalobos taps a 1-2 pitch back to Osborn who flips to 1st, Wise holds.
Osborn isn’t even close, 4 straight balls to Ledoux to put runners on 1st and 2nd.
Bradshaw up, 2 outs, 1st and 2nd, gets to 1-0, and Bradshaw lines a ball into the hole between short and third, Peters dives…
Navarro dives….
NEITHER COMES UP WITH IT! Wise was off on the swing and rounds third……
And scores standing up! Are you kidding me! ARE YOU KIDDING ME! 3-3 2 outs 1st and 2nd, bottom of the 14th.
Rafael Flores is summoned from the pen, Osborn goes (3.2-4-2-2-2-2)

Ok this game is a nail biter “in game” and RL as well. Wife summons me to take my dog out (old Rotty named Patton who I think is in his last weeks as my buddy) at this very point in the replay, I KNOW the game is going to end soon as I don’t have a lot of scroll bar left, I just have no idea how or when, just that it’s coming……

Sloan in, starts off the inning K’ing Dan Land swinging , 1-2 count.
Brady Hardin flies to right on a 1-2 count again.
Manny Navarro drills a 2 out single to left, runner on 1st 2 outs.
Mitchell Mills takes strike 1, ball…
And grounds to second to end the top of the 15th, knotted at 3.
Sparks leads off, Flores pitching (literally doing this pitch by pitch as I have about 1/15th of the scroll bar left, there’s at most an inning and a half left…)
Called strike
Ball
Foul
Foul
Ball
Ball
Punch out swinging.
Pat Peters steps up….again?
1st pitch swinging..
6-3 ground out, 2 outs none on…
Dave Williams up…
Foul
Ball
Ball
Ball
3-1 Shallow blooper to center falls in, 2 outs, runner on 1st.
Greg Wise up…
Ball
Ball
Called strike
2-1 pops it up, F2 to end the 15th…
Holy poop. Are you kidding? I sure hope this is ok to read like this. I can’t imagine spoiling this one by reading ahead
To the top of the 16th, 3-3 tie.
Sloan still in…. Jose Rodriguez leading off..
Called strike
Jose Rodriguez crushes a 0-1 offering from Jon Sloan to right center for his first career post season HR and it’s a tie breaking solo HR in the top of the 16th, the silence in here is deafening.
Paul Parker comes into the game….Sloan (1.1-4-2-2-1-1. 2 home runs!)
Kevin Peters hitting..
Called strike
Ball
Ball
Hits a tapper back to the mound, 1 out.
Dave Ladd up…
Ball
Shallow fly to left, F7, 2 outs.
Carlos Arredondo up..
Ball
Hits a 1-0 line drive to center…
Right at CF Glen Wise for the out, on to the bottom of the 16th, 4-3 Philly!
Flores remains in the game… Caballero leading off….
Ball
Foul
Ball
Pop up, F5 1 out
Roberto Villalobos batting….
Called strike
Ball
Soft ground ball to second, 4-3, 2 outs.
Barney Ledoux hitting…
Lines a first pitch single to right, 2 outs, runner on 1st.
OMG, ok, this game is over in a hitter or two, tops, there’s literally no more scrolling to do.
Ron Bradshaw is up, O’Gorman on deck… What the hell is going to happen??
Called strike
Aw….
Bradshaw taps a grounder to short, flip to second for the FC, game over, Philly pulls out an insane game, I can’t wait to see who the stars are, and what the hell this box score looks like. I seem to remember two SP that dealt, and a guy that punched out 13, like an hour ago.
#3 STAR OF THE GAME
Kevin Peters (PHI) 3-7 2B, HR, 2 RBI’s , 2 runs, BB (he was #3 in game 1)
#2 STAR OF THE GAME
Andrew Olson (PHI) 8-4-1-0-1-7
#1 STAR OF THE GAME
Noah Jenkins (SAN) 8.1-8-1-1-2-13
W Flores (1-0) L Sloan (0-1)
HR PHI Peters (3) Rodriguez (1)