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| Carlos Ruiz started the game with a lead-off homer. |
Metropolis was looking to even
the Brassball World Series after Santa Barbara won Game Three with a daring
suicide squeeze in the bottom of the ninth.
The Avengers had Kyle Lohse on the hill and faced Felix Hernandez in
what may have been a must-win game.
Avenger lead-off hitter Carlos Ruiz started the game
with a bang and silenced the Santa Barbara fans when he took Fernandez deep for
a homer and a quick 1-0 Metropolis lead.
Felix also allowed a pair of one-out singles to Robinson Cano and Andrew
McCutchen, but retired David Freese and Andy Dirks to avoid any further damage.
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| Justin Ruggiano doubled twice, scoring two runs each time. |
The Outlaws put together a rally in the bottom if the
second, as the first three batters reached base. Justin Ruggiano doubled home Buster Posey and
Edwin Encarnacion and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Adrian Gonzalez.
That gave the Outlaws a 3-1 lead just as Felix was settling in.
The bottom of the fourth was a near duplicate of the
second, as Ruggiano once again doubled with Posey and Encarnacion on base. Both scampered home to push the score to 5-1.
Jason Heyward drove home Ruggiano with a single and Santa Barbara had a 6-1
lead in Game Four.
Jose Reyes tripled to start the top of the sixth, as
Metropolis tried to rally. Bryce Harper
drove home Reyes with a long fly ball, but that was it for the Avengers and
they were still in a four-run hole.
Alexi Ogando had relieved Lohse in the fifth and was
in to start the sixth, as well.
Encarnacion led off and took Ogando deep for a solo shot and a 7-2
Outlaw lead. Ogando got through the rest
of the inning, but the Avengers were left hoping to rally for five runs with
just nine outs left.
Hernandez wasn't going to make it easy on them. He retired Reyes, Harper and Ruiz easily in
the seventh and Metropolis called on Aroldis Chapman for the bottom of the
inning. He did his job, but looked a bit
shaky when he threw a wild pitch with Elvis Andrus on base. Chapman settled
down to strike out Carlos Gonzalez to end the inning.
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| Felix Hernandez struck out twelve Avengers. |
Metropolis tried again to rally in the eighth. McCutchen hit a one out single and Freese
walked to put two guys on. Pinch hitter
Yoenis Cespedes drew a walk to load the bases and drove Hernandez to the
showers. Reliever Ronald Belisario came on with
the bases loaded, two outs and slugger Jose Bautista at the plate. Bautista got a fastball and hit it hard to
center, but it stayed in the park for the third out and Metropolis stranded
three runners they really needed to score.
Metropolis putt two runners on in the ninth but once
again couldn't come through in the clutch.
Jim Johnson, one of the game's best closers was in and McCutchen, one of
the game's best hitters was at the plate.
Johnson won the battle Posey held onto a two-strike foul tip for strike
three and the last out of the game.
BOXSCORE: 2013
Metropolis Avengers At 2013 Santa Barbara Outlaws 11/5/2013
Avengers AB
R H RBI AVG Outlaws AB
R H RBI AVG
C.Ruiz C 5
1 1 1 .273
J.Heyward RF 4 0
1 1 .359
R.Cano 2B 5
0 2 0 .281
E.Andrus SS 4 0
1 0 .255
A.McCutchen CF 5
0 3 0 .305
J.Keppinger 3B 4 0
2 0 .231
A.Gordon LF 4
0 1 0 .283
A-M.Moustakas 3B 0 0
0 0 .000
D.Freese 3B 3
0 0 0 .327
C.Gonzalez LF 4 0
0 0 .277
A.Dirks DH 3
0 1 0 .400
B.Posey C 3 2
1 0 .188
C-Y.Cespedes
PH,DH 0 0
0 0 .231 E.Encarnacion DH 2
3 2 1 .229
J.Bautista 1B 4
0 0 0 .093
J.Ruggiano CF 3 2
2 4 .486
J.Reyes SS 4
1 2 0 .263
B-C.Granderson CF 1 0
0 0 .154
B.Harper RF 3
0 0 1 .139
A.Gonzalez 1B 3 0
0 1 .235
B.Phillips 2B 3 0
0 0 .179
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 36
2 10 2 Totals 31
7 9 7
A-Subbed Defensively
(3B) For Keppinger In 8th Inning
B-Subbed
Defensively (CF) For Ruggiano In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For
Dirks In 8th Inning
Avengers........
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
- 2 10 0
Outlaws.........
0 3 0 3 0 1 0 0
- 7 9 0
Avengers
(9-6) IP H
R ER BB
SO HR ERA
SCORESHEET
K.Lohse
LOSS(1-1) 4 6
6 6 3
2 0 4.15
A1 C3
A.Ogando 2 1
1 1 0
0 1 6.23
C4 C9
A.Chapman 1 1
0 0
0 1 0
0.00 D1 D4
K.Jansen 1 1
0 0 0
2 0 0.96
D5
Totals 8 9
7 7 3
5 1
Outlaws
(11-3) IP H
R ER BB
SO HR ERA
SCORESHEET
F.Hernandez
WIN(4-1) 7 2/3 8
2 2 1
12 1 2.83
A1 D5
S.Atchison 0 0
0 0 1
0 0 0.00
D6 D6
R.Belisario
HOLD(2nd) 0 1/3 1
0 0 0
0 0 0.00
D7 D8
J.Johnson 1 1
0 0 0
2 0 0.00
D9
Totals 9 10
2 2 2
14 1
ATTENDANCE-
45,096 DATE- Tuesday, November 5th 2013 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Jim
Joyce, Jeff Nelson, Mark Carlson, Tim Tschida
T- 2:58
LEFT ON BASE-
Avengers:10 Outlaws: 4
DOUBLE PLAYS-
Avengers: 1 Outlaws: 0
DOUBLES-
J.Keppinger(4th), J.Ruggiano-2(6th)
TRIPLES-
J.Reyes(2nd)
HOME RUNS-
C.Ruiz(4th), E.Encarnacion(3rd)
SACRIFICE FLIES-
B.Harper, A.Gonzalez
WALKS- D.Freese,
Y.Cespedes, B.Posey, E.Encarnacion-2
STRIKE OUTS-
C.Ruiz-2, R.Cano-3, A.McCutchen, A.Gordon, D.Freese-3, A.Dirks,
J.Bautista-2, B.Harper,
C.Gonzalez, C.Granderson, A.Gonzalez-2,
B.Phillips
WILD PITCHES-
A.Chapman
2-out RBI-
J.Heyward
RLISP 2-out-
A.Dirks, C.Gonzalez-2, Y.Cespedes, J.Bautista-2, A.McCutchen
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