World Series Game 4

In New York, Pedro Lewis returns on three days rest to face Utah's #4 starter Jack McDermott. New York scores first in the third, on a Buckley stolen base and Manfred Mueller RBI single. In the 5th, Utah ties it up on a Carlos Merejo Homer. In the 7th, Battletrap summons pinch hitter Eddie Davis who delivers a two out RBI double to score Merejo to give Utah the 2-1 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Tim Griffin ties the game with a solo homer off Michael Haley. And thats the way it stayed until the 9th inning. Pedro goes 7-6-2-2-4-7, while McDermott goes a solid 6-3-1-1-3-7. In the top of the 9th, New York elects to go with righthander Fritz Jones to face Merejo, in lieu of closer Jaret Benser. Merejo leads off with a walk. Then Battletrap elects to leave Dodson in to bat. He gives him the swing away and "run the bases loaded" sign, but then stops. He has visions of his time in Portland where the sacrifice bunt is regarded as holy. He closes his eyes to clear his thoughts but cannot shake the sound of Megatron saying "use the bunt, Battletrap, use the bunt..." Battletrap decides to follow the voices in his head and tells Dodson to drop one down. After fouling off two pitches, Dodson lays a beautiful sacrifice bunt down to move Merejo to scoring position. With the weak hitting Ordonez due up, Battletrap substitutes Scott Romano. Romano delivers a single to left, the third base coach sends Merejo...the close play at the plate...Merejo plows into Justin Lewis...OUT! New York cut off the go ahead run....NO!...Lewis dropped the ball. They call it an error on Lewis, Merejo scores the go ahead run and Romano moves to second. With the lefthanded Bobby Lewis due up (on a previous double switch that pulled Ballard from the game, New York summons Rudiger Rocker. Lewis works the walk, then Del Holdsworth drives a double to deep right...Romano scores, Lewis is being waved home...Keith Lee's throw...OUT! Maduro then grounds to Solo to end the inning, but Utah takes the 4-2 lead. With the 2 run lead, Utah does not have Henry Rollins available to pitch due to his high pitch count in game 3. With Jackie Garrison due up, Battletrap uses his lefty Tommy Dwyer. Dwyer gets the ground out to Zamuda. Now with Griffin due up, Battletrap summons Biasatti. Griffin singles and then pinch hitter for Justin Lewis, Jerrod Smith works a walk. With the pitchers spot due up, New York pinch hits Will Spriggs. He grounds to Biasatti who gets the out at second, but Spriggs avoids the double play and keeps the game alive. 2 out, 2 on for Buckley....and he draws the walk. Now with the bases loaded and 2 out, Manfred Mueller is in a position to be a hero...but he pops out to the catcher to end the game. Utah leads the series 3-1.