2015 POST SEASON
As I did last season, I’ll be narrating the game as I play, and cutting into ongoing games around the league with updates.
GAME 1
Staten Island (Ron Pearce 19-10 3.26)
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Chicago (Alfredo Alejandrez 18-6 4.24)
Neil Weber lead off with a single but a Chartier to Riggs to Morgan DP erased him. Alejandrez got Villanueva on a pop out to end the inning on 12 pitches.
We went 3 up 3 down, 0-0 after 1.
Alejandrez works around 2 walks and ends the inning with 30 pitches through 2.
We are 6 up 6 down, 0-0 end of 2.
Alejandrez walks Weber with 2 outs but K’s Garza to end the inning. At 49 pitches after 3.
In the bottom half Raul Feliz leads off with a single and after a Hudson F8 and Lorenzelli pop up, Feliz steals 2nd and scores on Ernesto Gutierrez’s RBI single to right. Gutierrez steals 2nd on the first pitch to Chartier, and a pitch later Chartier drives him home for a 2-0 lead. Chartier steals on the 1st pitch to Collins and Collins waves at strike 3 to end the inning, 2-0 Chicago after 3.
Travis Bryant kicks off the 4th with a 441 foot bomb to left center, 2-1 Chicago. Alejandrez sets the Yanks down in order after that, heading to the bottom of 3, 2-1 Chicago. Alejandrez at 68 after 4.
Pearce sets us down in order, and is at 55 pitches through 4, 2-1 Chicago.
Will Harris gets on, on a leadoff error by 2B Paul Riggs. Vasquez pops up the sac bunt attempt and Neil Weber hits into a 6-4-3 to end it.
Pearce works around his own error and the game stays 2-1 through 5, Pearce at 68 pitches, Alejandrez 76.
Ernesto Garza opens the 6th with a double and Villanueva doubles behind him to tie the game 2-2. A Travis Bryant walk and Robert Collins FC puts runners on the corners with 1 out. Mario Orosco then singles in the hole at short to drive in Villanueva and end Alejandrez day, Jose Torres comes in and immediately stops the bleeding with a 4-6-3 douple play on Ricardo Quintania. 3-2 Staten Island.
Bill Alexander drills a 2 out liner into the left center gap but is thrown out trying to stretch it to a double. 3-2 after 6, Pearce at 77 pitches. Alejandrez final line (5.1-5-3-3-4-5).
Torres works around a walk and van Bodegraven is brought in to get Garza with 2 outs and a runner on 1st. Which he does on 2 pitches with a pop up to short.
Morgan slaps a leadoff single and Paul Riggs pushes him to third with a double. With runners on 2nd and 3rd Pearce makes his 2nd error of the day on a routine comebacker, and Morgan ties the game. Hudson drills a first pitch sac fly to right to put Chicago up 4-3. Feliz, who’d reached on the error, then steals 2nd with Lorenzelli up. Massi hits a fly to deep left center that gets caught, but Feliz manages to get to third. 3 pitches later he scores on the wild pitch by Pearce, 5-3 Chicago. A Gutierrez walk ends Pearce’s day (6.2-6-5-2-2-1), Andy Fritz comes on and retires Chartier on the backwards K to end the 7th but we manage to grab the lead, 5-3.
Pennington on in the 8th to get the left handed heart of the order, Cruz is up in the pen.
He K’s Villanueva but a single to Bryant and a Collins walk and Cruz is in the game. Cruz retires Orosco on a fielder’s choice and gets Quintania on a 2 pitch F9. 5-3 Chicago into the bottom half of 8.
Collins drills a leadoff double and after Alexander moves him over Morgan drives him in with an RBI single. Riggs FC and a Feliz single put runners on the corners but Hudson flies out to end it. 6-3 Chicago into the 9th.
Ernesto Cruz surrender his 1st run of the season on a Neil Weber 9th inning solo shot, but gets the final 3 outs for the save (1) and a 6-4 series opening win. Morgan was 2-3 with a run and an RBI, Raul Feliz was 2-4 with 2 runs and an RBI and 2 SB’s.
CHI 6 SI 4
W van Bodegraven (1-0) L Pearce (0-1) S Cruz (1)
HR SI Bryant (1) Weber (1)
Chicago leads 1-0
GAME 1
Columbus (Mike Holmes 13-12 4.56)
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El Paso (Jason Allen 16-6 4.52)
El Paso opens the scoring in the 1st on a Gerald Wright RBI single scoring Vincent Lange. 1-0 heading to the bottom of 2.
Vincent Lange drills an RBI single in the 2nd putting El Paso up 2-0 after 2.
A Tony Ruiz RBI ground out has given El Paso a 3-0 lead into the 5th.
Still 3-0 into the 6th.
A Bill Adams 2B puts Columbus on the board, 3-1, but El Paso answers with its own RBI double from Rafael Cuesta to score Haynes, 4-1 El Paso. Diablo SP Jason Allen has gone 6-7-1-1-2-5.
El Paso added 2 in the bottom of 6 and went on to a 5-1 series opening win.
EP 5 COL 1
W Allen (1-0) L Holmes (0-1)
HR None
El Paso leads 1-0
GAME 1
Fresno (Vincente Elisary 1-0 5.54)
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Pittsburgh (Vince Bray 24-4 2.59)
In Pittsburgh a 4th inning RBI single by Anibal German scoring Ross Tunstall puts the Bulldogs up 1-0. Vince Bray has gone 5-4-0-0-0-6 through 5, Pittsburgh hitting in the bottom half.
Allen Hedden’s solo homer in the 5th puts Pittsburgh up 2-0 with Fresno batting in the top half of the 6th.
Tunstall is 2-2 with a 2B, Jeff Holland is 2-3 with a 2B for Fresno.
Into the bottom of 7, 2-0 Pittsburgh, Bray is at 6.1-5-0-0-0-9 on the day and is relieved. Fresno’s SP Vincente Elisary is 6-6-2-2-5-5.
Anibal German drives in his 2nd run in the bottom of the 8th on an RBI grounder that scores Roberto Morales. 3-0 Pittsburgh after 8.
Boswell closes this one out, 3-0 Pittsburgh, and a 1-0 series lead. Ross Tunstall was 3-3 with a 2B for the Bulldogs.
PIT 3 FRE 0
W Bray (1-0) L Elisary (0-1) S Boswell (1)
HR PIT Hedden (1)
GAME 1
Tulsa (Esteban Valdez 16-9 3.69)
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Las Vegas (Glen Harvey 1-1 5.59)
This game is just underway, no score into the bottom of the 2nd.
Still 0-0 top of 3.
Jorge Gonzalez RBI single scores Berard and puts Vegas out front 1-0 after 3.
This game would go to the 8th with Tulsa up 2-1. In the bottom half Vegas would score 7 times and have a runner thrown out at the plate! A crucial 2 out 2 run error by Driller LF Dave Ladd would open the flood gates. Tulsa would mount a furious 9th inning rally though, with Wally Reed hitting a 2 out 2 run Triple. Anbar Suhayb would be called on, and after surrendering an RBI single to Edward Young he would K Rich Alfred looking to end it. Valdez would take the loss but go 7.2-8-6-2-5-5.Harvey was excellent, going 8.2-8-6-1-2-4, a total of 9 unearned runs over the final 2 innings.
LV 8 TUL 6
W Harvey (1-0) L Valdez (0-1) S Suhayb (1)