Saturday, December 03, 2016

Florida vs Alaska games 3-4-5

Game 3: Florida 5 Alaska 3

Alaska took a 2-1 lead to the 7th against Florida ace Peter Buchanon.  With one out in the 7th, Gromit reached on an error by by 1B Stark.  Ortiz singled, sending Gromit to third, and stole second.  The throw went into center, allowing Gromit to score and Ortiz to third.  Mitch Oakenshield brought in the go ahead run with a fly to center.

Snow Sox tied it back up with a Colvin homer in the bottom of the inning.  In the 8th, Elijah Tebow loaded the bases with 2 outs, then Gromit delivered a 2 runs single to make it 5-3.  After a leadoff single, Grant Hansen came on to get a DP grounder and strikeout.  David Tejada then pitched a perfect 9th for the save.

Game 4: Alaska 4 Florida 3

In a well pitched game by Felix Bacani and Chris Reyes, Alaska took a 2-1 lead to the 7th.  With 2 out and 2 on, David Baron doubled over the head of center fielder Rickey Salazar to score Ortiz and Oakenshield.  Tejada set the Sox down in the 7th.  Kevin Stanfied pitched around a Kawasaki triple in the top 8th.  Jesus Perez had a perfect bottom 8th.  Stanfield allowed a single but no runs in the 9th.  Bottom of the 9th, and Florida went to Hansen to close it.

After a Reggie Rodriguez single, Salazar doubled to put move Reggie to third.  Merkich popped up, and the Panda was walked intentionally.  A walk to Mike Connor tied the game.  Reliever Tyler Nelson got Ed Chaney to ground into a force play, and Adam McClure to fly out.  Cesar Cordero pitched the 10th and 11th, scoreless innings, but had to leave with back spasms.

In the bottom of the l1th the Sox got 4 base runners including a double but could not score.  It went single - double play - single - double - intentional walk - ground out.  Tebow pitched a scoreless 12th.  In the 11th Salazar had a one out double.  Merkich walked, Panda flew out, and Connor singled up the middle to bring Salazar home.

Game 5: Alaska 5 Florida 1

Robb Stark hit a two run homer off Guzman in the first inning.  After that Snow Sox had trouble hitting Guzman as he racked up 10 strikeouts in 6 innings.  They whiffed his pitch count up to 111 and got to the weaker part of the Penguins bullpen as the aces were not 100%.  Meanwhile Tim Garrison, the Snow Sox 5th starter in 5 games, allowed one run on 5 hits over 7 innings.  The Snow Sox had multi hit games for each of their first 4 hitters and won without much drama.

The series goes back to Florida with the Snow Sox one win away from their first ever world series.

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