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2016 Third Period

Speakers at Arrogant Bastards

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Game 1 – Danny Salazar and three AB relievers shut down the Speakers on 3 hits. Buster Posey spoils the shutout with a 1-out homer (8) in the 9th.

Jake Arrieta suffers his first loss in a Speakers uniform as the ABs post candlesticks in each of the first 3 innings: each a 2-out solo home run! Mike Trout, Blake Swihart and Adrian Gonzalez turn the trick. An unearned run in the 8th seals the 4-1 final.

W – Salazar; L – Arrieta (2-1)

Game 2 – Cole Hamels is victimized by two AB errors and his own wild pitch in the 1st while the Speakers plate a pair of unearned runs. Hamels and David Price hang zeroes until the 7th.

Brad Brach walks Anthony Rizzo with 1 away. Posey grounds to 3rd with Rizzo on the move. With 2 outs, Manny Machado lines a pinch RBI single (15-11 against an 18) for a 3-0 lead.

Price makes those scarce runs stand up (3-0 final) by firing a 4-hit shutout with no walks and 8 Ks. However, the ABs strand a runner in scoring position in 4 different innings.

W – Price (9-5); L – Hamels

Game 3 – Luis Severino (in his last regular season start) and Nate Karns and friends continue the mound mastery. The teams combine for no runs and 5 hits through 8. No base runner for either side reaches 3rd.

With 1 out in the top of the 9th, Machado works his 4th walk of the game. Rajai Davis drives an RBI double into the gap to shatter the scoreless tie. Brach relieves Mark Melancon and promptly allows another RBI double to Andrelton Simmons.

Brach prevents further damage, but 2 runs seem huge in this series. Severino allows a 2-out single to Kevin Pillar, who pinch ran for David Ortiz in the 7th. As the tying run at the plate, Justin Turner Ks to end the game, 2-0.

W – Severino (4-1); L – Melancon

The Speakers outscore the ABs in the series, 6-4. Each team scores in only 4 of 27 potential innings. Earned runs in the series? Speakers 4, ABs 3. The ABs score theirs in the first 3 innings of the series (3 solos). The ABs haven’t plated an earned run in 23 frames or any run in their last 18. The ABs commit 2 errors, both in the 1st inning of Game 2 (Trout and Andrus), leading to 2 runs.

 

 

2016 Third Period

Speakers at Shartlesville Browns

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Game 1 – Neither David Price nor James Shields were sharp, resulting in a 4-4 tie after 4. Carlos Gonzalez (7) and Manny Machado (13) go back-to-back in the Speakers’ 2nd. Jose Iglesias (4-4, D, 2 RBI, R, SB) contributes all series for the Browns.

After an unearned run in the 4th, Machado slugs a 2-run homer (14) in the 6th and a sac fly in the 9th. The Speakers win 9-5 to spite Price allowing 11 hits. The Speakers record 10 safeties, 5 of which leave the park. Shields giftwraps 3 of them.

W – Price (7-5); L – Shields

Game 2 – Carlos Martinez and Johnny Cueto restore order, tossing zeroes through 6. In the 7th, Ian Kinsler doubles home a pair. The Browns storm back after the stretch as Iglesias doubles and scores.

With a slim 2-1 lead, Machado coaxes a walk off Cesar Ramos to start the 9th. Rajai Davis rattles a ball off the top of the fence for an RBI double and a big insurance run.

Brett Cecil plunks Jose Abreu to lead off the bottom half. Lucas Duda strokes a double. The Browns enjoy the tying runs at 2nd and 3rd with no outs.

Darren O’Day gets Iglesias on a 3-1 play–(only the second out he’s made this series)! Kyle Seager pops foul to Andrelton Simmons. With 2 away, pinch hitter Corey Seager flies out to center to end the game. 3-1, Speakers.

W – Martinez (8-3); L – Cueto; S – O’Day (3)

Game 3 – The strangest of the bunch, and possibly of the season. The Browns send 9 to the plate in the 1st with the first 5 reaching safely. When the dust clears, Corey Seager has a 2-run homer and the home team has a 4-0 lead.

Apparently oblivious to the concept of the shutdown inning, AJ Burnett promptly faces 11 Speakers in the 2nd inning. A Yoenis Cespedes 2-run double and 7 runs later, the Speakers lead 7-4 … after 1.5 innings!

Burnett recovers enough to retire his last 9 batters faced to end the 5th. The Browns offense responds with another 4-spot in the bottom of. Adam Jones connects for a Baltimore Special 3-run homer and Dexter Fowler’s 2-out RBI double accounts for the lead run.

The Browns pile on with a Harper 2-run HR in the 6th for a 10-7 lead. After Burnett and Tony Watson mow down 15 straight Speakers, Anthony Rizzo hits a solo shot (13) to start the 8th. With 2 on and 2 out, Kinsler singles off Koji Uehara to bring home the tying runs as Machado and Davis cross the plate.

After Harper’s homer, the Shartlesville bats go cold. Joe Blanton coughs up just a single in 1.2 IP to end the 8th.

At 10-10, Buster Posey singles (55-7) off Carlos Rodon to start the 9th. Mookie Betts pinch runs and steals 2nd. Cespedes makes the stolen base moot by launching a 2-run blast (7) for a 12-10 lead. Trevor Rosenthal sets down Kyle Seager, Adam Jones and Danny Espinosa in order in the bottom half to preserve the win.

W – Blanton (2-0); L – Rodon; S – Rosenthal (3)

2016 Third Period

Speakers at The Plague

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The current #1 and #2 teams spontaneously filled a postseason void Wednesday evening in Oberlin. (No baseball? We’ll create our own baseball.)

Game 1 – After the Speakers scored 7 total runs in 3 games (and no more than 3 in a game) against the Lymebees, they rally for 4 in just the 3rd inning. Buster Posey’s 3-run double breaks a scoreless tie. Yoenis Cespedes follows with an RBI single.

AJ Pierzynski doubles home DJ LeMahieu in the 4th as The Plague close to 3-1. The Speakers answer back with a rare, patient Cespedes plate appearance: a bases loaded walk in the top of the 5th.

Mike Moustakas takes matters into his own hands with solos in both the 5th and 7th innings. Down 5-3 in the 9th, Lorenzo Cain triples to start the inning. Trevor Rosenthal comes in to face pinch hitter Matt Wieters, who lifts a sac fly to left (22-7, but would have been a 22-0 for Moustakas).

That’s as close as The Plague can get as Rosenthal retires Michael Brantley and Denard Span for a 5-4 Speakers win.

W – Luis Severino (3-0); L – Jose Fernandez (RIP)

Game 2 – Jake Arrieta surrenders an RBI double to Pierzynski and a Paul Goldschmidt sac fly. However, the Speakers 3-run 1st is all Arrieta would need to pocket an 8-2 final.

The Speakers tag Jaime Garcia with 8 runs and 14 hits. Posey knocks in 3, including his 6th homer. Cespedes drills his 6th in the 9th for icing. Anthony Rizzo (4-5, D, RBI, 2 R) slotted between them in the batting order. Even his one out was a turned-back hit number.

W – Arrieta (2-0); L – Garcia

Game 3 – Through the first 4 innings, The Plague have 7 hits; the Speakers total 8. The Plague lead where it counts, 5-2, thanks to Rizzo’s 1st inning error leading to 3 huge unearned runs.

Goldschmidt hits a pair of 2-run homers for The Plague while Carlos Gonzalez lines his 6th of the season, a solo blast, for the visitors. The Plague avert the sweep, 6-2, to maintain a 2 game margin in the standings.

W – Marco Estrada; L – Matt Harvey (6-6)

2016 Third Period

Speakers at Lymebees

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Game 1: Arrieta vs Syndergaard: Speakers get a HR by Rizzo in the 1st and would add another run in the 7th and 9th. Arrieta goes into the 9th giving up just two walks, but with 2 outs, Hosmer singles (22-7) to break up his no-hit bid. Speakers win 3-0.

Game 2: Harvey vs Hendricks: Speakers get on the board first, scoring 2 runs in the 4th. Bees come back in the bottom of the 4th, scoring 3 with Beltre hitting a 2-run HR. Bees add 2 more runs in the 7th, 1 run in the 8th and go on to win 6-2.

Game 3: Price vs Bumgarner: Bees would get on the board in the 4th. After 2 2-out walks, Beltre singles in a run. Bees get a 2-run double from Hosmer in the 5th. Speakers get single runs in the 8th and 9th. Bees get a solo HR by Hosmer and 2-run HR by Beltre in the 8th. Bees win 6-2.

Lymebees record is at 44-34.

John Ingiosi

2016 Second Period

Speakers at Shooting Stars II

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Both teams wrap up the 2nd period Thursday in Lewisberry.

Game 1 – David Price outduels Dallas Keuchel, shutting out the Stars on 5 hits. Only one Star reaches 3rd base against Price, who goes the distance. On the offensive side, Buster Posey (2-4, D, HR #5, 3 RBI, R, BB) and Kris Bryant (3-5, 2 D, RBI, R) lead the Speakers to a 7-0 win.

W – Price (5-4); L – Keuchel

Game 2 – Mark Teixeira and Matt Carpenter slug back-to-back 2-out doubles in the 1st to put the Stars up early. The Speakers tie on Shin-Soo Choo’s boot in right field in the 2nd.

Chris Archer and Jose Quintana settle in until the 7th. The Speakers send 8 to the plate against 3 pitchers, scoring 4 times, including a Rajai Davis 2-run triple as well as RBI doubles by Yoenis Cespedes (as a pinch hitter) and Anthony Rizzo.

The Stars battle back with a pair of unearned runs after the stretch, thanks to Archer’s throwing error. However, the Speakers expand their lead in the 8th, plating 3 runs against AJ Ramos. Chris Young raps a 2-run double and Ian Kinsler singles him home.

That’s where the late scoring ends as the Speakers win 8-3. Both teams record 10 hits, but the Stars strand 10 base runners.

W – Archer (6-3); L – Quintana

Game 3 – Mike Fiers and three Stars relievers blank the Speakers on 3 hits. While the Speakers go 0-7 with runners in scoring position, the Stars dent the plate just enough to prevent a sweep.

Curtis Granderson singles home Matt Carpenter with 2 away in the 3rd. Granderson’s 8th inning 2-out single includes a Carlos Gonzalez error which scores Carpenter again for a 2-0 final.

W – Aroldis Chapman (3 scoreless IP); L – Carlos Martinez (7-3)