West Tennessee vs. Birmingham 

 

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May 13, 2003

 

 

SOU FINAL

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

- - - - - - - - -

WEST TENN 1 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 0

BIRMINGHAM 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 1

 

10 11 12 R H E

-- -- -- - - -

WEST TENN 0 0 0 6 13 3

BIRMINGHAM 0 0 1 7 23 0 FINAL IN 12

 

WP - JEFF BAJENARU (2-1)

LP - JOSE VELAZQUEZ (0-1)

 

HOME RUNS: BIR - RYAN HANKINS (3) OFF JON LEICESTER IN THE 9TH

 

TIME: 4:01 ATT: 2,725--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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WEST TENN (6) AT BIRMINGHAM (7)

 

WEST TENN AB R H BI BIRMINGHAM AB R H BI

R Sadler CF 4 2 2 0 C Durham CF 7 0 4 0

J Hamilton LF 6 0 2 1 J Piniella LF 6 0 2 0

B Harris 3B 4 1 2 0 R Hankins 2B 6 1 1 1

J Dubois RF 5 2 1 1 D Ingram DH 5 1 2 0

J Velazquez P 6 0 0 1 S Bikowski RF 6 1 4 0

N Ortiz SS 5 0 1 2 C Maldonado C 5 2 3 1

B Sing 1B 5 0 1 0 G Alvarez 3B 6 1 3 3

J Arteaga 2B 5 0 0 0 J Acevas 1B 5 1 1 0

C Kopitzke C 5 1 2 0 J Shaffer SS 6 0 3 1

TOTALS 45 6 11 5 TOTALS 52 7 23 6

 

WEST TENN 103 011 000 000 -- 6

BIRMINGHAM 020 000 301 001 -- 7

 

2 OUTS WHEN WINNING RUN SCORED

E--J Shaffer 2, J Dubois 2, B Harris. DP--WEST

TENN 2, BIRMINGHAM 1. LOB--WEST TENN 10,

BIRMINGHAM 13. 2B--G Alvarez 2, S Bikowski, N

Ortiz, J Dubois. 3B--C Kopitzke. HR--R Hankins 1

(3) (off J Leicester). SB--J Piniella 1 (2), C

Durham 1 (8), R Sadler 2 (6), J Hamilton 1 (5), J

Dubois 1 (2). CS--C Durham, N Ortiz, R Sadler.

SF--N Ortiz.

IP H R ER BB SO HR

WEST TENN

A Guzman 6 12 2 2 1 4 0

T Anderson 2-3 1 1 1 0 1 0

R Rohlicek 1-3 3 2 2 0 0 0

E Brown 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

J Leicester 3 4 1 1 0 3 1

J Velazquez (L,0-1) 2-3 2 1 0 2 0 0

BIRMINGHAM

N Cotts 3 3 4 3 5 4 0

C Eason 3 5 2 2 0 3 0

J Meyer 3 1 0 0 1 1 0

M Smith 1 1-3 1 0 0 0 1 0

J Bullard 1-3 1 0 0 0 0 0

J Bajenaru (W,2-1) 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 0

 

WP--R Rohlicek. BALK--J Velazquez. SO--WTN: J

Velazquez 3, J Hamilton 2, J Arteaga 2, B Sing 2.

BIR: J Piniella 4, J Acevas 2, S Bikowski, R

Hankins, G Alvarez. BB--WTN: B Harris 2, R Sadler

2, J Dubois, B Sing. BIR: D Ingram, C Maldonado, J

Acevas. T--4:01. A--2,725.

Good to see Bham came back and won. Looks like walks came back to finally bite Cotts in the butt. Right now I got to say Cotts looks like a similar pitcher (Stat Wise) to Kaz Ishii in LA. Gives up a lot of walks, but seems unhittable to the point that if you give up runs, its almost always their own fault.

 

I hope Cotts can improve his control, but he may be one of those guys that just has so much movement its tough, ala Clement and Ishii; although Clement has improved it.

Cotts threw 81 pitches in 3 innings.

Baggs your boy Durham didn't wear the collar tonight. Smallballmanager Wally Backman stranded 13 and won, that don't happen much I bet.

Items of note:

 

Shaffer had 3 hits in the same game....... Barons had 23 hits!..... including one or more in every inning.....

Durham up to .270......... Hankins led off bottom of 9th with game tying HR....... At one point, Barons had two runs yet had 13 hits along with 2 West Tenn errors....... Barons won game against D Jaxx's DH. With the doubleheader yesterday, they ran out of pitchers........

 

Barons 12th inning........ (West Tenn DH enters game as pitcher - throws all fastballs)

Maldonado walked

Alvarez flew out

Maldonado gets balked to second

DJaxx manager gets tossed arguing balk call

Maldonado gets tagged out leading off second on hidden ball trick

Aceves walked

Shaffer with infield single, Aceves moves up to 2B

Durham hits a hot smash to 3B with third baseman making an amazing diving pick..... 3Bman gets up and has plenty of time to make a good throw..... skips it past first baseman and Aceves scores winning run...

Game time a painful 4:01

 

Interesting to say the least....

The hidden ball trick? .... Amazing!

The hidden ball trick? .... Amazing!

I didn't think about it at the time, but I wonder if the manager arguing and getting thrown out might not have been part of it? They did it right after that I believe. I'll be honest with you, it caught me and everyone around by surprise. None of us saw it.

I would guess that would be the case. In fact, I assumed as much when I read your post of the last inning.

ok rex.. so what woke up those bats .............we need the secret fast up this way............

Have no idea. Granted they all weren't line drives, but they all counted.

well damn it find out lol.. we need bat help up here ........fast.........last nites win wasnt exactly smashing............

I didn't think about it at the time, but I wonder if the manager arguing and getting thrown out might not have been part of it?  They did it right after that I believe.  I'll be honest with you, it caught me and everyone around by surprise.  None of us saw it.

That is brutal, they didn't notice the pitcher all the way off the mound?

That is brutal, they didn't notice the pitcher all the way off the mound?

The pitcher was standing ON the mound, thank you.

what was acevas doing playing 1st base? He's a catcher.