Best game ever!

The Baltimore Redbirds beat the Big Train 4 out of 6 times in the regular season. With the a 10-game winning streak earlier in the season the took 2 seed. The game started off with a bang. After 5 pitches there was a man on 3rd. Ben Winter hit a triple on a 2-2 count. It was the only extra base hit of the whole game! He ended up to be the only run of the inning. Alex Fredrick scored a run in the 2nd to give Baltimore a 2-0 lead. Turns out that those were the only runs they would score as Cody Allen, David Wayne Russo, and Bryan Hamilton shut the door after the 2nd. Nothing barely happened until the 7th when Connor Bernatz sacrificed to score Nick Scheeberger who singled, advanced on a wild pitch and then advanced on a ground out to first. The score was 2-1 after the 7th and nobody had any ideas to leave at that point. And for a good reason. In the top of the 8th Danny Stienstra lead off and drew a walk. Jarrod Parks sacrificed to move him to 2nd base with 1 out. Then the right fielder Ryan Collins tied the game with a base hit to score Danny Stienstra. Austin Harclerode walked and Ryan Collins advanced on a wild pitch earlier in the at-bat. The Redbirds changed pitchers then Mason Morioka walked to load the bases. Nick Schneeberger grounded the ball to 2nd where Cory Jensen made the play got Morioka at 2nd but couldn't get the hustling Schneeberger at 1st. So the Big Train had the lead for the 1st time in the playoffs. Then Matt Bowman lined out to Jensen to end the 8th. The Redbirds left a runner on 1st in the bottom half of the 8th. Then the Big Train loaded the bases again in the 9th with no outs. But Jarrod Parks struck out and Ryan Collins did this:

In the bottom of the 9th Bryan Hamilton came on to protect a 1 run lead. And he delivered as he struck out the first 2 batters. And with 2 strikes he was 1 strike away from striking out the side, but Nate Woods had other plans.

And with the league leader in home runs up to bat this could only mean 1 thing:

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STRIKEOUT BABY!!!!!!!!

Tonight's 3 Stars:

#1 David Wayne Russo

4 Innings Pitched, 0 runs, 3 hits, 1 walk, 5 strikeouts.

#2 Ryan Collins

2 for 5 with the game winning run and the game tying RBI

#3 Bryan Hamilton

1 Inning Pitched, 3 strikeouts, 1 hit, save

Other notes:

The Big Train won the game on 4 hits, the Redbirds had 8.

The Redbirds made 4 errors

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