Covering these games in the real time sim mode, so I’ll report as it happens….
And get ready for a stunner...
Columbus (Will Canon 0-1 4.26)
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El Paso (Bob Park 1-0 3.24)
Columbus goes ape in the top of 1, poised for a HUGE upset now. A leadoff single by Lambert, followed by a Jeffrey Hudson walk and Angelo Gomez single to load the bases. Dean Strong’s RBI single turns bad as a Diablo error allows another to score. Chistian Schall singles in another and Stephano McDermott does the same 1 out later. Stanton Hall drives in the 6th run of the inning, ending Bob Parks day with just 2/3rd of an inning pitched and his team down 6-0 before it could bat!
This would be an enormous upset imo.
Turning into a rout now as Michael Griffin hits a 2 run second inning single to make it 8-0 Columbus.
A 2 run Tommy Henry single gets El Paso on the board and Gerald Wright drills a 2 run homer to make it 8-4.
Wright then follows up with a 2 run single in the 4th, El Paso back in this one down 8-6 after 4. Wright is 2-3 with a HR and 4 RBI’s.
Now into the 6th, same score, Clippers leading by 2.
Vincent Lane drills a 6th inning single and is 4-4 on the day, but Fresno goes quietly and has just 9 outs remaining.
Stays that way into the 8th when Dean Strong gets his 3rd hit of the day, a solo shot to make it 9-6 Columbus.
Fresno gets a Ruiz single with 1 out in the 8th but Lange pops out to end it, onto the 9th down 3.
Fresno now batting in the 9th….
Henry grounds out leading off….
Wright drills a single, 3-5 on the day..
Caden Haynes walks….
Cuesta flies out and Ivan Lopez retires Valentin Maitani and the Clippers pull off a stunning upset in El Paso, coming back from down 2-0 to beat the 107 win El Paso Diablos 3 games to 2!
COL 9 EP 6
W Perez (1-0) L Park (1-1) S Lopez (2)
HR COL Strong (3) EP Wright (1)
Columbus in a stunner, 3 games to 2.
Series Co-MVP’s Dean Strong (7-18 6 runs 1 2B 3 HR’s 6 RBI’s) and Michael Griffin (9-18 2 runs 3 2B’s 1 HR 7 RBI’s)
Fresno (Simon Kamerman 0-0 12.46)
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Pittsburgh (Tomas Villanueva 0-1 1.13)
Fresno goes down 1-2-3 in the 1st. Kamerman sets Pittsburgh down, 0-0 after 1.
Pittsburgh’s Kris Wright drills a 2 run shot in the bottom of the 2nd, 2-0 Bulldogs.
Gustavo Suarez reaches on an error, scoring Joyce.
Roberto Morales singles, Martin and Suarez score, 5-0.
Tunstall hits into a DP but Miranda scores, 6-0 Dawgs after 2.
Still 4-0 after 4.
Neither team does anything in the 5th, 6-0 Pittsburgh after 5. Villanueva, on short rest, tires in the 5th after a single and is out of the game.
Orlando Rios drills a solo shot in the 7th, 6-1 Bulldogs.
Grizzlies waste a 1st and 3rd when Holland punches out. 6-1 into the 7th.
Gustavo Suarez ends the Grizzly season when he drills an 8th inning grand slam to extend the lead to 10-1.
PIT 10 FRE 1
W Perez (1-0) L Kamerman (0-1)
HR FRE Rios (2) PIT Suarez (1) K Wright (1)
Pittsburgh wins the series 3-2
MVP Roberto Morales (9-20 3 runs 1 2B and 4 RBI’s)