Sunday, October 08, 2017

SLDS - 2 games

Manny Ortez, Drew Fenwick, and Travis Springer hit solo homers off of Ruben Ramirez in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th innings.  Javier Soto hit a homer for Chicago in the 4th, their only run off the dominant Jared Pollard.

Ramirez went 7 innings and allowed no runs other than those three homers.  Texas added a pair in the 8th as Miguel Fernandez hit a 2 run homer.  Pollard went 6 innings, allowing 5 hits and striking out 5.  Four Texas relievers combined to pitch scoreless ball over the last 3 innings.

Miami's Roman Matos, baseball's only 20 game winner this year, pitched a great game to even the series with Boston.  Matos went 6 innings, allowed 2 hits, one walk, and struck out 4.  Boston's biggest threat came when Aaron Moore, back in the lineup, hit a leadoff triple.  Matos stranded him on third with some help from Brian Kaat, who caught two medium deep fly balls to left while Moore elected not to challenge his paw.

Joe Young singled in Kaat to give Miami a 1-0 lead in the first.  While Miami had 13 hits in 6 innings off R.D. Phillips, they could not another run across until scoring 3 in the 5th, 2 on Mike Conner's RBI single.

A 45 minute rain delay in the bottom of the 6th inning ended the night for Matos, who threw 89 pitches.  Travis Howard pitched 2 innings, allowing no hits and striking out 2, and Dwight Schrute struck out the side in the 9th to finish the 4-0 shutout.

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