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Old 03-28-2017, 10:05 PM   #293
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Friday, May 17, 2002

Well, this is embarrassing. We are facing a lefty today, so I thought Gabe Regalado would be making his Major League Debut. I called him up because he is a right-handed bat and the only other right-handed bat in our outfield is Dave Priestly and none of our lefties or our switch-hitter can hit lefties very well. Only problem is that when I watched Regalado take batting practice he was batting from the left side.... I am a doofus....

Portland Beavers (25-15 .625 Tied for 1st place in the NL West) at
Arizona Diamondbacks (22-17 .564 2.5 GB in 4th place in the NL West)

Terry Cole, Por (31 L 5-3 2.17 7.9-0.5-3.6-7.0 H/9-HR/9-BB/9-K/9) vs Omar Chavez, Arz (24 L 2-1 3.95 6.6-0.6-5.8-9.3)

We lost the only time we faced Chavez last season. In 8 innings, he only gave us 2 hits and 1 run.

Lineups: Pos Name (Age Bats BA-HR-RBI-OPS) Stats are for last season.
PORTLAND
1: LF Frank Wiginton (31 S .276-2-7-.733 in 116 AB)
2: SS Stu Redman (30 R .259-0-17-.621 in 143 AB)
3: RF Dave Priestly (28 R .310-3-10-.907 in 71 AB)
4: C Mark Parker (28 R .295-4-15-.855 in 129 AB) Playing hurt
5: 1B Roger Aguilar (31 R .172-1-6-.563 in 58 AB)
6: 3B Tim DePriest (27 R .200-1-2-.700 in 10 AB) Playing hurt
7: 2B Enrique Hernandez (26 R .270-0-14-.624 in 159 AB)
8: CF Javy Fernandez (27 L .308-1-16-.788 in 159 AB)
9: P Terry Cole (31 L .316-0-0-.632 in 19 AB)

ARIZONA
1: 2B Mike Chapin (28 S .231-0-5-.578 in 65 AB)
2: RF John Golliday (25 R .176-2-10-.532 in 119 AB)
3: SS Mario Saucedo (26 R .304-3-22-.841 in 148 AB)
4: 3B Dan White (27 R .297-5-25-.828 in 155 AB)
5: C Gary Stanley (36 R .226-6-18-.768 in 115 AB)
6: LF Rich Ellis (25 L .339-4-21-.938 in 121 AB)
7: CF Tom Cooper (27 R .325-2-11-.894 in 83 AB)
8: 1B Dan Backes (23 L .000-0-0-.000 in 4 AB) Rookie
9: P Omar Chavez (24 L .333-0-2-.845 in 12 AB)

Game Start: 7:05 PM
Weather: 86 deg. Clear skies with a 12 MPH wind blowing in from right.
Attendance: 15,626

Frank Wiginton strikes out. Stu Redman doubles down the left field line. Dave Priestly grounds out to short and Redman makes it to 3rd somehow. Mark Parker grounds out to 2nd.

Bottom of the 1st: Mike Chapin grounds out to short. John Golliday pops up to short right field and it drops for a hit. Mario Saucedo lines out to 1st. Golliday steals 2nd. 3-2 pitch to Dan White and he watches it go by and gets rung up by the ump!

Top of the 3rd: P Omar Chavez strikes out the side in order....

Bottom of the 3rd: John Golliday hits a 2-out double and scores on a hit by Mario Saucedo. 1 to 0, Diamondbacks.

Bottom of the 5th: Deja Vu.... John Golliday hits a 2-out single, steals 2nd and scores on a hit by Mario Saucedo. 2 to 0, Diamondbacks.

Top of the 6th: P Terry Cole leads off with a rocket of a double to right center and goes to 3rd on a balk call. Frank Wiginton flies out to left and Cole beats the throw to the plate! 2 to 1, Diamondbacks.

Bottom of the 8th: New Pitcher: RHP Doug Maxwell. With 1 out, Rich Ellis strikes out, but Mark Parker cannot come up with the ball and Ellis reaches base. With 2 outs, P Maxwell beans Dan Backes, who has to leave the game. P Maxwell then beans P Billie Zoghby to load the bases up with 2 outs. Pinch-hitter: SHB Mike Campoverde. He either strikes out or hits a home run...mostly strikes out. But he foes not strike out.... Grand Slam to left.... 6 to 1, Diamondbacks.

Lost - 6 to 1

We had 3 hits and made 1 error.
The Diamondbacks had 9 hits and made no errors.

Terry Cole (L 5-4) went 7 innings, allowed 2 runs, 8 hits, 1 walk (INT) and struck out 7. At bat, he hit a double and scored our only run. He did not deserve this loss....
RHP Doug Maxwell went 1 inning, allowed 4 unearned runs, 1 hit, 1 home run, 2 HBP and struck out 2. What a messed up inning.... a strikeout reaches base, the pitcher gets beaned with 2 outs and then a pinch-hit Grand Slam.... what are the odds of all that happening?

Omar Chavez (W 3-1) went 7.1 innings, gave us 1 run, 3 hits, 3 walks and struck out 9. He balked.
RHP Billie Zoghby (SV 13) went 1 and 2/3 innings and only faced 4 batters. He struck out 1.

SS Stu Redman hit a double. Gabe Regalado made his Major League Debut as a pinch-runner and stole a base.

For the Diamondbacks, RF John Golliday, batting .176 in 119 AB coming into this game, had 3 hits with a double, stole 3 bases and scored 2 runs. PH/2B Mike Campoverde hit a pinch-hit Grand Slam, his 5th home run of the season, the first as a pinch-hitter.
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