Thoughts and pictures of my local minor league baseball team the New York Penn League Connecticut Tigers; a Detriot farm team. We'll still be looking at former Navigators/Defenders players along the way....

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Defs take the rubber game 7-3 behind Henry Sosa..




and a 15 hit attack lead by Brad Boyer's 4 for 5 (2 doubles, 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored).
Defs got single runs in the third, fourth and the fifth for a 3-0 lead after 5 innings. Boyer had a RBI double in the fourth down the third base line for the first run--should have been two runs in but Sosa couldn't lay down a successful sac to put runners on second and third for CT's first run. In the fourth Jackson Williams doubled in a run to make it 2-0. Brandon Crawford singled in Boyer in the fifth to make it 3-0.
The B-Mets scored an unearned run (Williams PB #9) in the sixth to make the score 3-1.
CT then broke the game open in the sixth scoring four times. The big hit was Brett Pill's pitch hit 2 run double that just missed going out. Brad Boyer and EME added RBI singles to close out the scoring and CT was up 6-1.
The B-Mets knocked in a couple of runs off reliever Matt Yourkin in the 8th to make it 7-3 but Dan Otero finished up in the 9th to preserve the win.
Sosa went 6 IP with 5 hits and 3 Ks. He improves to 3-0 with a 1.85 ERA.

Misc notes: The win moves CT into a tie with the FisherCats for the moment but the 'Cats just went ahead of the SeaDogs late in their game today with a 3 run homer.
**UPDATE: SeaDogs rally to beat the FisherCats and Defs move into first by a half game!
Big DARE crowd today; announced gate was 5300+. Good to see the Bulletin's Joe Perez back at the park!
Big news in Trenton today as Akron's Jeanmar Gomez threw a perfect game against the Thunder. He struck out 8 batters in a game that took just 2:12 to play before 6300+. I don't think Mike Ashmore was there as there is nothing on his blog. Check out Milb.com for the celebration picture and game story.
Pics top to bottom are: Sosa, Tyler LaTorre's first appearance playing first and Boyer.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

greg...didja email gb?

he will make you famous

7:34 PM

 
Blogger greg8370 said...

of course...

7:56 PM

 
Blogger Dfensfan said...

How did Sosa look on the hill?

10:49 PM

 
Blogger greg8370 said...

lot sharper than his last outing....

11:29 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

where is hondo?

time to eat crow dude

i said this would be a more exciting team, and that decker could turn them into a winner

you owe me a beer

4:44 AM

 
Blogger thehondohurricane said...

Hey Bacci

1. Anytime you want a brew, come on down to a game. You'll find me in Section 11.

2. I ain't eating nothing yet. Maybe at the end of July.

3. The biggest difference in this team, SO FAR, is they aren't striking out nearly as much as past editions.

I'll reserve my comments (Decker and the league) until they hit the 100 game mark.

7:50 AM

 

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