Friday July 17, 2009
It was a balmy buggy Friday evening in Warren but Westfield Blue battled it out to hold onto their lead and win the game 11-10 in the bottom of the sixth.
Westfield took the lead 4-0 in the top of the first inning taking advantage of a handful of walks with aggressive stealing and a nice single by Parker Hess. Justin Lin came off the DL and landed a double with a beautiful rip to left field. OC and Daniel C. also had nice hits to LF but the Warren fielder wasn’t going to let it happen again and ended the inning with two nice catches. Warren came on strong against our returning pitcher Justin Lin. They came to the plate ready to hit and they succeeded-some doubles, a triple and even a home run. Justin had two strike outs and Rowan caught a pop up. Warren took the lead 5-4.
Top of the second inning and MJ got on base with a walk. With two outs Tyler rips one to RF and brings MJ home to tie the score. Unfortunately, the top of the inning ends quickly with another pop up caught by Warren. Rowan took the mound but Westfield had a tough time against more “spitrockets” by Warren. The score leaped to 9-5 and ended when a Warren player illegally slid into third base head first.
Top three-Westfield rocks and ties the score 9-9. Steven, Parker, George and Justin Lin all contributed to the come back with strong singles. OC got a double with a hit to LF and Daniel had a RBI. The bottom of the inning went quickly with an awesome catch at the mound by Oberman, a nice pop up catch by Daniel and another sweet play by Roth to the first baseman. Score remains 9-9.
The top of the fourth inning began with a walk for OB and continued with an RBI for MJ after a big hit to CF. Westfield took the lead 10-9 but despite some valiant efforts ended with bomber boy’s hit to CF getting caught. The bottom of the fourth- 1-2-3 with some excellent pitching by Parker Hess and fielding by Westfield Blue.
Warren tied up the game in the fifth. Parker continued to do well on the mound but discussion in the stands focused on whether the first out by Westfield was called a pickle or a run down.
Top of the sixth and the score is tied 10-10. Rally caps are on!!! Daniel and Lankler try their best but two outs. Pitcher gets a little run down and walks OB, MJ and Roth. Rowan true to form hits a solid grounder to LF and brings OB home. 11-10. But wait, bomber boy is up and bases are loaded. Yes, he rips one to center field BUT NO-gets caught. Hess takes the mound. First batter hits a grounder to Barmakian at third who makes the play to Rowan at first-OUT #1. Second batter hits the ball towards left field but Tyler Roth makes the “OMG” catch of the day for OUT #2. [See ESPN highlights!] Third batter hits a grounder to Rowan who tags first base for the win!!! Way to hold on to the victory Westfield Blue!
Game Recap by Beth Lankler
The Pickle / Run-Down
Parker overpowers a Warren batter
Rowan knocks in the 11th run
Omurr does his Michael Jackson imitation
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