WILD CARD PLAY IN GAMES
The first ever ‘win or go home’ play in games.
Frontier League
Brooklyn (Dale Hickman 15-10 4.55) @ Columbus (Mike Jones 15-7 3.77)
Jorge Garza singles, steals 2nd and 3rd and scores on a Jeffrey Hudson ground out to put Columbus up 1-0. Dean Strong follows with a 2 run homer for a 3-0 Columbus lead after 1.
In the bottom of 3 Strong again delivers an RBI single to make it 4-0, later Kurt Peterson singles in Christian Schall, extending the lead to 5-0 Columbus after 3.
A Casey York sac fly makes it 5-1 , but Bill Ryan doubles in Simmons to make it 6-1 after 4.
Mike Jones has given up just 1 hit through 5. And through 6 he is 6-1-1-1-4-5.
6-1 into the 7th.
Dean Strong is 4-4 2B, HR, 3 RBI’s…..Jones is 8-2-1-1-4-7.
Mike Jones (1-0) tosses a CG 2-hitter in the Clippers 6-1 win, Strong goes 4-4 and drives in 3.
Columbus 6 Brooklyn 1
W Jones (1-0) L Hickman (0-1)
HR COL Strong (1)
Coastal League
Houston (Sergio De La Garza 13-18 4.80) @ Los Angeles (Tommy Hobbs 16-11 3.54)
Julio Mercado puts LA on the board and in front with a solo shot in the bottom of the 2nd, 1-0 LA after 2.
A Mike Johnston RBI single ties it at 1 heading to the bottom of 4.
Still 1-1 after 5. De La Garza (5-3-1-1-0-5) Hobbs (5-6-1-1-0-4). Rich Stone was injured and left the game.
Mike Johnston drills a solo HR in the top of the 7th, 2-1 Houston. Later in the inning Troy Glaus would hit a 3 run shot to extend Houston to a 5-1 lead.
In the 8th the Roughriders put it away, Joe Rowe hitting another 3 run homer, making it 8-1. Juan Molina would add a solo shot in the 9th but De La Garza would go the distance, 9-5-2-2-0-7.
Houston 8 Los Angeles 2
W De La Garza (1-0) L Hobbs (0-1)
HR HOU Rowe (1) Johnston (1) Glaus (1) LA Molina (1) Mercado (1)