The first inning was a wild one tonight with each team scoring 2 runs! Both teams followed up with an additional run, the Bats in the 2nd and Pigs in the 3rd. Louisville tacked on one in the 4th and then Brian Gordon came up and hit a 2 run HR to support his own effort! The first pitcher in Ironpig’s history to hit a home run!
In fact, to tie the game during a steady rain in the 7th, Bat’s pitcher Daryl Thompson hit a solo HR to tie the game.
We should’a pulled the tarp before the 7th inning… things opened up then and Louisville went on to score 3 runs in the 7th to take the lead.
The Pigs came back in the bottom of the 8th starting with a walk to Mayberry, Brandon Moss Hog singled.. both were bunted over on a sacrifice by Barfield and scored on a single by by Erik Kratz!
Mike Zagurski came on to pitch a near flawless 8th and 9th inning allowing only 1 hit and 1 walk.
In the bottom of the 10th, up came John Mayberry… no walk off home run this time but John singled, followed by a Moss Hogg single with no outs. Barfield attempted another bunt but fouled with 2 strikes and was called out. Both runners advanced on a broken bat infield looper by Jeff Larish. Erik Kratz was intentionally walked to load the bases. Up came Brian Bocock… Brian Bocock with the bases loaded.. and he popped out ending the inning and potential walk off win.
In the 13th Rich Thompson and Pete Orr singled and John Mayberry hit a shallow sac fly scored Rich Thompson to win the game 8 to 7! Thompson should have been out by a few feet but the Bat’s catcher couldn’t handle the throw and the Pigs won a thriller here tonight!
For Brian Gordon, he went 6.2 innings and receives a no decision. He allowed 5 runs but only 3 of them were earned raising his ERA to 1.14 on the season. (Errors by Kratz and Mayberry) He added 9 more strikeouts and his curveball hasn’t looked better. Let’s see if this outting pushes him into the IL Pitcher of the week award. Combined this week Gordon went 12.2 innings allowing 3 earned runs, 11 hits and struck out 20. While not a lock for a 2nd award of this season, he is surely of the top contenders.
What an exciting game!!!
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I thought the game was over when they took all the K’s off the Wawa “Bring The Heat” strikeout board in rightcenter field after the 9th inning.
Are the Louisville Bats loaded with good hitters or what? First 5 hitters: Cozart .328; Sappelt .333; Alonso .321; Francisco .316; Hermida .361. Then they bring guys like Todd Frazier (.285-11) and Chris Valaika off the bench. No wonder they lead the International League with a .283 team batting average.
Dontrelle Willis pitching for Louisville on Sunday. Last time he pitched at CCP was 5/1/09 when he was with the Toledo Mud Hens. The Ironpigs won the game but Jeff Larish had a HR for Toledo. I heard Dontrelle was signing autographs for anyone who asked before the game on Saturday.
I noticed that. Also that the employee hid under the trough when the light rain started. How about an umbrella?
I was told this morning that wasn’t the Bats normal catcher in the lineup last night. I guess Devin Mesaraco is their normal catcher. He batted in the cleanup spot vs. Syracuse on Friday night. He’s batting .330 – 8HR – 39 RBI. He also has a slugging % of .569 with an OBP of .412