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7/10 – 12/2009: Iowa City Country at Toronto Blue Jays
Game one: Country Depablos (93 DC SL – three, CB – four, VSL – one) at Blue Jay's Sabathia (97 BA SLV – five, CH – three)
Inning two: Sabathia was keeping the Country batters off-balance until he grooved the fastball right down the middle to Brendan Harris, who homered over the centerfield wall. A Huisman double followed by a McCurdy single brought home another run. Hudson followed that by hammering a changeup below the strike zone and driving it over the left center field fence. Four – zero Country
Inning four: Brendan Harris led off and when Sebastien threw a changeup that dropped low in the zone, but right in the middle of the plate, Harris hammered it for his second homerun of the day. Five – zero
While Sabathia struggled to get through the fifth inning, having trouble getting his slurve in the strike zone and seeming to start almost every batter with a ball, Depablos looked more dominant than he had in weeks, mixing up his pitches well and throwing a two hitter through four innings with five strikeouts
Inning six: the Blue Jays had a middle reliever whose fastball barely broke 80 and had very little movement on his slider and changeup start the sixth inning and Fields homered off the first pitch he saw. Two outs later, Huisman, McCurdy and Hudson hit solo homeruns. Nine – zero Country
Inning seven: Spilborghs led off the seventh with his 12th homerun of the season. After Cust singled up the middle, Josh Fields hit his second homerun of the day. In the meantime, Depablos continued to pitch strong, allowing only three hits through the end of the seventh. 12 – 0 Country
Inning nine: the Blue Jays replaced their pitiful reliever with another one who was equally bad, but threw submarine style. Spilborghs started tonight by hammering a fastball into the left-field bleachers and two outs later, Harris hit his third homerun of the game. Depablos gave up two singles, including a bunt base hit, but shut down the Blue Jays without scoring, pitching a complete game six hit shutout.
Comments: one of the surprising things about this blowout is that the Country hit 11 homeruns – none of them by Jack Cust. Hudson, Spilborghs, and Fields hit two home runs apiece, Harris hit three home runs, and Huisman and McCurdy hit one each. Depablos used a mere 70 pitches to get through the nine innings. He had eight strikeouts.
Game 2: Country Bailey (93 EB 2SF – three, DCB – four) at Blue Jays Halladay (95 BA 2SF – two, CU – four, CB – five, CH – four, HSK – two)
Lineup: starting second baseman, Hudson, is being given the day off and Dan Johnson is still in the minors recovering from purple condition. They are replaced by Harris at second and Schrager at first
Inning one: the Country scored immediately when Milledge singled off of Halliday's second pitch, driving the ball to right field. He stole second on the very next pitch and then scored when Spilborghs muscled the ball out of the infield for a shallow single. Spilborghs went to second on the throw home and scored on Erdos's opposite field single. One out later, Halliday threw a changeup down the middle of the plate and Fields put it over the left-field wall for a two run homerun. In the bottom 1/2, the Blue Jays matched the Country in terms of hits, but only generated one run. Four – one Country
Inning 3: the Country extended their lead when Spilborghs led off with a single and on a steal attempt of second, Cust singled, allowing Spilborghs to reach third and score on a sacrifice fly. Blue Jays Matt stairs came to the plate with runners at first and third and promptly hit a monstrous home run. A few more singles and the tying run came home as well as the go-ahead run on a wild pitch. Six – five Blue Jays
Innings 6– 7: the Country tied the game when, with runners at first and third and two out, McCurdy got an infield single on a ball that bounced off the pitcher, and the Country pulled ahead in the seventh when Spilborghs singled and came all the way around from first to score on an Erdos double. Erdos scored on a two-out single from Brendan Harris. Country lead eight – six
Thanks to strong performances by middle reliever Murray, Green, and Chamberlain, the Country held on to win, eight – six
Game three: Country Pettyjohn (95 DC SL – one, 2SF – one, CB – one, PA – three) at Blue Jays Burnett (98 DA HSK – four, CH – four, ???– five)
Inning one: the Country got off to a fast start, as Hudson singled, stole second, but was thrown out at the plate. Milledge was on first, then stole second, moved to third on the fielders choice, and came home on a triple from Cust. Pettyjohn escaped the first inning, although he allowed to infield singles. One – zero Country
Inning three: Burnett was pitching very well, hitting his spots and throwing all pitches for strikes, but the Country were able to push another runner crossed the plate when Spilborghs got a two-out RBI single. Two – zero Country
Innings five– six: Pettyjohn escaped a jam in the fifth, allowing leadoff singles before retiring the next three Blue Jays. By the end of the fifth inning, Pettyjohn had allowed six hits, four of which were infield singles. In the sixth, Pettyjohn left with runners at first and second one out. Andrew "fireman" Brown into the game and quickly recorded the second out before giving up RBI singles to the eighth and ninth hitters. 2-2
Inning seven: since scoring a run in the third, the Country had done very little, but were able to scrape together back-to-back two-out singles by Erdos (who stole second) and Huisman (on the seventh pitch of his at-bat), giving the Country a 1 run lead. Brown started the bottom of the seventh by retiring Scott Rolens on a ground out to short, and then it appeared that Wells's fly ball to left would be caught, but instead of making a sliding catch, Erdos jumped over the ball and Vernon Wells wound up on second. At this point, Brown was replaced by Green, who retired the next two batters to end the inning. Three – two Country
Inning eight: Burnett finally began to tire in the eighth after throwing 80 pitches, and after facing a few more batters, left with runners at first and second, two out. Blue Jays reliever, Camp, retired Cust on a sharply had ground ball right at the first baseman. In the bottom of the eighth, Sean Green retired the first batter, but then surrender the tying home run to the Blue Jays catcher, Zaun. Three – three
Inning 10: the game entered the 10th tied at three, but Huisman led off with a double off the right centerfield fence and scored on a McCurdy single up the middle. Joba Chamberlain came in to start the bottom of the 10th and immediately surrendered a double to Matt Stairs. Stairs moved to third on a fielders choice. The next batter hit the ball hard, but it was snagged by Harris who came home - Stairs retreated back to third and runners were left at first and third with one out. Chamberlain then struck out catcher Zaun, bringing up leftfielder Harris (EDC), who hit a game-tying single up the middle on a one – two pitch, leaving the game tied at four
Inning 11: the Country pulled ahead, again, when Fields singled with one out and then pinch runner Sweeney stole second and moved to third when the Blue Jays catcher overthrew second. Harris then hit a soft single to leftfield, bringing home Sweeney. Two out singles from Huisman and McCurdy brought in the second run of the inning. Chamberlain started the 11th and induced a pop out and foul territory from Rios before tiring and being replaced by Jiang, who gave up a single (that probably should have been an out but the Country third baseman, Harris, went to cover third-base even with no one on) and then a double, putting the tying runs in scoring position. A run scoring fielders choice and then a soft ground ball to short ended the game, six – five Country
Comments: the Blue Jays never had a lead in this four hour baseball game, but the Country never led by more than two runs and the Blue Jays tied the game on three separate occasions. It was a shame that Country starter Pettyjohn could not get the win, as he was the best Country pitcher on the mound today, allowing two runs on eight hits over 5 – 1/3 innings with three strikeouts, and four of the singles against him where infield singles
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