IronPig Game Results – 6/22/11 – Phanatic and Pigs Go Down

The IronPigs jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the first inning and all seemed well in hand but the Indianapolis Indians hit the ball more efficiently and beat the Pigs by a score of 5 to 10.

Home Runs by John Mayberry and Tagg Bozied got the Pigs on the board early. Collectively the Pigs had 14 hits but weren’t able to push the runs across. There was a lot of running going on too. Moss and Thompson both had 2 stolen bases and Orr added one with Moss caught stealing once. The Indians also had 5 stolen bases on the night.

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The bigger news was that the Phillie Phanatic was hit by a foul ball tonight. While seated with fans behind the 1st base dugout, a quick foul ball beelined into him and in true Phanatic phashion, he played it off well.. arms waving and spinning around. Sadly, word is the Phanatic really did take a hit and was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure. Wishing a quick recovery to our beloved Phillie mascot. If the Phanatic does hit the DL, I think a nice gesture would be to offer the services of Ferrous the Pig to follow in the footsteps of other IronPigs who went to the Bigs.

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Just saw from Mike Lore’ of LehighValleyLive.com that Juan Perez will be heading to Philadelphia tomorrow. Congrats to Perez! Perhaps Ferrous could catch a ride there with him…

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Tonight was game #72. That’s halfway for the 144 game AAA season for our Pigs. Riding a 43 win 29 loss record at the halfway point is a great feeling and hope they can get back to business as tomorrow is another day. While the season is flying by, our early season stacked schedule of home games has the halfway portion of our season happening a couple home stands ago. Is it time to start thinking about playoffs yet?

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A lot of stuff to cover tonight.. tomorrow! TOMORROW! It’s finally time for the Noise Nation spotlight feature portion of the PBS 39 IronPig’s documentary. Come out to the game tomorrow and join us behind the bullpens and join in the fun!

OinK!