FRONTIER LEAGUE
Chicago Iron Pigs (Roberto Martinez 12-7 5.17)
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Alaska Avalanche (Will Allison 10-11 6.47)
What a way for Martinez to redeem himself here? If he can handle this, we could go into round 2 with the rotation rested.
Wow, 5-0 after 1 as he gets hammered and surrenders 6 in 3 innings. Then the game screwed up big time. I accidently, for what I think is only the 2 or 3rd time in 13 seasons, clicked on sim the inning, instead of the half inning I was hitting, and the game left one of my relievers in to throw 110 pitches and give up 13 runs on 15 hits. So very stupid. How does the AI not fix that? A loss is a loss, I wasn't winning this one. But it ended insanely bad. Sanchez 4-5 4 RBI's Ledezma 3-6 2 RBI's Stokes 4-5 4 RBI's Fick, Baca and Guest all with 3 hit days.
Alaska 19 Chicago 2
W-Allison (1-0) L-Martinez (0-1)
HR CHI-Collins (1) ALK-Collins (1) Sanchez (1) Fick (2)
Chicago leads the series 3-1
West Michigan White Caps (Carlos Vargas 13-8 4.29)
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Brooklyn Cyclones (Pancho Martinez 12-8 4.82)
Brooklyn jumped out early and pounded Carlos Vargas while Pancho Martinez dealt, going 7-5-0-0-2-2 and Brooklyn got 4 homers to tie the series. 1B Jayson Pierce went 3-4 2 HR's and drove in 3.
Brooklyn 9 West Michigan 1
W-Martinez (1-0) L-Vargas (0-1)
HR BRO-Hart (1) Pierce 2 (3) Jongmans (1)
Series tied 2-2
COASTAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia Patriots (Joe Hester 12-12 4.62)
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Tulsa Drillers (Bryant Thomas 1-0 6.00)
Trailing 5-1 entering the bottom of the 8th the next hour would be as crazy as the IBL has ever seen. Tulsa would go Diaz single, Ortiz single, Medine 2 run double, 5-3, Whimster walk, Vance RBI single, 5-4, Sheid 3 unassisted, runner to 3rd, Caden Haynes walk Hugh Edmonds then hits a game tying sac fly and THEN the pitching change is made.
Now tied at 5, Philly goes into the top of the 9th and goes Mendez single, Adaricio pop out, Pat Adams single, Dave Nicholson 10 pitch walk, Jesus Arteaga then drills a 2-2 pitch to left for a 2 run single, 7-5, Jose Navarro comes on and Mike Zimmerman grounds out, driving in a run, 8-5, Jesus Castro hits an RBI double, 8-5 and George Quinn works a full count before drilling a 3 run homer to make it 11-5, where it would end.
Philadelphia 11 Tulsa 5
W-Escalante (1-0) L-Gomez (0-1)
HR PHI-Mendez (2) Arteaga (1) Quinn (2) Roman (2)
Philadelphia leads the series 3 games to 1
San Antonio Silver Stars (Angelo Esparza 0-0 1.13)
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Sacramento Railcats (Esteban Figueroa 1-0 1.13)
A game 1 rematch with much more on the line for Sacramento this time around.
And while it was nowhere near the duel game 1 was, Esteban Figueroa again best Epsarza. Figueroa went 7-6-4-3-3-6 while Esparza was beaten up going 5.1-8-6-6-0-4. Nathan King went 2-3 with 2 HR', 1 a grand slam, and 6 RBI's.
Sacramento 9 San Antonio 5
W-Figueroa (2-0) L-Esparza (0-1)
HR SAN-Garcia (1) Machado (1) SAC-King 2 (2)
Series tied 2-2