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Old 05-02-2013, 12:59 AM   #1520
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2023 world series game 4

Chicago Iron Pigs (Roberto Martinez 0-1 9.31)
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San Antonio Silver Spurs (Jorge Ortiz 2-0 2.75)

This is one of those dangerous situations. Yes I am 1 win away, and the team is hitting, but a loss here means Becket and Esparza in 5 and 6, sort of like winning game 5 in New York in '04, except Beckett's ankle is fine.

Cruz doubled yet again to lead off a game, and inning and Jeffrey Hudson drove him in with an RBI single to make it 2-0 5 pitches in.
Vic Cahill would single with 1 out in the bottom of 1 but Martinez got Cliff Edwards to hit into a 5-4-3 DP to end the inning, 1-0 after 1.
Game would remain 1-0 into the 4th. Earl Shaw would draw a 4 pitch leadoff walk, and Ortiz would then walk Castro on 4 pitches as well.
Hugh Collins worked ahead 3-1, and then singled up the middle to load the bases.
Steve Rush then worked another 3-1 count before lacing a double to left center, scoring Shaw and Castro. Shane Jackson didn't wait, lining the 1st pitch to left for an RBI single. For some reason San Antonio stuck with Ortiz.
Andre Blakeway would make them pay, lining another RBI single to right to make it 5-0. Ortiz would get one more hitter, and it would be one too many.
Roberto Cruz remained on fire as he took Ortiz's 3-1 pitch and drove it into the right field bleachers for a 3 run back breaking, and possibly world series clinching, homer.
That would end Ortiz's day. His final line was nasty, 3-9-8-8-3-2.
Jeff Hudson greeted Quincy Gallagher with a single, and after Chavez punched out Earl Shaw would double, putting runners at 2nd and 3rd.
Hugh Collins would hit a ball to left that Cliff Edwards would horribly misplay, and ultimately drop, allowing both Hudson and Shaw to score and make it a 10-0 Chicago lead.
After an Edwards 1 out single Martinez got Villanueva to ground into an inning ending 4-6-3 DP. 10-0 Iron Pigs after 4 innings.
Roberto Martinez would then turn it on over the next 4+ innings, making pitches any time he needed them, he enters the 9th with an 11-0 lead, trying to toss a world series clinching shut out.
Esteban Fernandez would not let it happen as he took a 1-0 fastball to left for a 2 run homer, ending Martinez's day with a 8.1-9-2-2-2-2 line.
Ernesto Cruz was 'given' the honor of trotting out to get the final outs of the World Series.
Cahill up, Rios on 1st, 2 outs...
Full count and Cahil launches a deep drive to left center for a 2 run homer.
Not what I'd planned...
Edwards now up, he lines a 1-1 pitch to right for a single.
Villanueva now up....
He takes the 0-2 pitch and singles past Hudons at 2nd....
Time out, meeting on the mound....Machado coming up, Cruz knows this is his last hitter...
1-1 pitch, cut on...Ground ball up the middle, Hudson grabs the ball and continues to the bag at 2nd...
He steps on the bag and this one's over, Chicago has swept the San Antonio Silver Stars to win the 2023 World Series!
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