YUMA BLASTS DARWIN IN 44-RUN ‘CONTEST’
The scoreboard read . . . .27 to 17 ?? Who was in town, the Patriots?
But in fact this was a score in a baseball game, albeit one played in the shifty confines of Darwin’s park (Fitness Peak). But it wasn’t exactly ‘all the baseball that fit’s to print.’ Much, in fact, was unprintable, especially the commentary of the two club’s pitching coaches.
The visiting Firebirds tore Finches starter Scott Kazmir a new one with a five-run second, then lowered the boom rather humiliatingly on the relievers who followed him, scoring 22 runs in the first five innings in what at first seemed a one-sided rout on a blustery day in the Northern Territories. But, with a prevailing wind of nearly 25 knots gusting right to left, the Finches would actually make the contest interesting, sending C.C. Sabathia to a fourth-inning shower and scoring seven times in the ninth against three pitchers before finally succumbing, as the two powerhouses combined for FIFTY hits, including seven boundary belts between them.
Jon Rauch (1-0, 6.35) earned the win by working two-plus innings and allowing ‘only’ two runs, while Kazmir (1-1, 8.59) would take the loss. Along the way, Josh Hamilton would homer twice in a losing cause, while Denard Span (5 hits, including a home run) led the Firebirds attack as Yuma won, 27-17!
In other BARB action:
BLACK MESA 16, LAS VEGAS 5
WP: Kevin Millwood (2-0, 4.50)
LP: Ian Snell (0-1, 27.00)
Rafael Furcal tripled to begin the game, and seven batters later Ian Snell was in the showers, having failed to retire a single hitter, as the Anomalies (4-4) pretty much said ‘Game Over’ in the first, evening their record behind a workmanlike effort from Kevin Millwood (7.2 IP, 3 ER) and a superb day from new CF Vernon Wells, who drove in a career-high eight runs in the contest.
BROOKLYN 7, TEXAS 1
WP: Jon Lester (1-0, 1.65)
LP: Matt Garza (0-2, 3.94)
Ryan Howard, starting to heat up, keyed a three-run third with his team-leading fourth home run, and Jon Lester became the second BARB hurler with two in the ‘W’ column as the Moabs (4-4) evened their mark in the road against the punchless Tornados, who have only managed 12 runs in their first six games while allowing their foes 28 tallies.
FROSTBITE FALLS 3, LOS ANGELES 2
WP: Paul Maholm (2-0, 0.57)
LP: Joe Blanton (0-1, 3.06)
SV: Nathan (1)
The PF Flyers loaded the bases in the ninth against Joakim Soria, but the Squirrels got a huge break when Ryan Sweeney was thrown out a third on Stephen Drew’s two-run single for the second out of the inning. Joe Nathan then induced Howie Kendrick to fly out harmlessly to left, and Frostbite Falls (6-3) remained tied with Worcester for the lead in the Eastern Division.
WILD!
5 comments:
44 runs is ridiculous. Very unrealistic. Maybe we should change the name of the league to Fantasy Land Baseball.
right... so statistics are supposed to be pointless? these rosters are full of all stars, id like to see the pitchers involved in that matchup and see how many times they've given up that many runs.
So are you saying the 30 runs the Rangers scored against the Orioles two years ago is ridiculous and unrealistic?
For the record, the most combined runs scored in a major league game was 49. The most hits by one team is 33. So it has happened before. It's just a rarity.
Hey, if I had a run of games like this I'd be concerned. It's early in the season, so there are more likely to be 'outliers' since the seeds aren't very large yet. For the record, with 120 total games played as I type this, the 'average' team is scoring 4.9 runs per game. Eight clubs have played 10 games each, and five clubs have played 8-9, so as the number of games played becomes more even, I expect the R/G average to climb to about 5.2-5.3, based on past seasons.
Yes, Andrew I'm calling it unrealistic because there is not a single team who is fielding a pitching staff of Daniel Cabrerra, Brian Burres,Rob Bell, or Paul Shuey.
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