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Old 10-13-2022, 02:26 PM   #4
Izulde
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Day 2
The marquee matchup of the second day was the second game of the South America Series, the 16-0 Santiago shellacking of Rio having drawn considerable interest.

The Fire Frogs jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but with the bases loaded and no outs in the bottom of the 5th, Albert Pinerio stroked a 3-RBI double to make it a 4-4 tied ballgame and an error allowed Pinerio to score and put the Purple Sharks on top.

Rio knotted it back up at 5 in the 7th on a solo homerun by Scott Harrison, but then danger came in the bottom of the 8th. Once again, bases loaded with no outs, and the leadoff batter, second baseman Brian Lanctot, who had made several stellar defensive plays was up. William Passarelli made his own brilliant stop to rob Lanctot of a hit and limit the damage to a sac-fly.

Next up was Pasqual Estavez, the league's leading hitters in the early days with a .750 batting average. He was hit by a pitch, allowing franchise star Dave Ozuna of the pedestrian .286 start up to bat with bases loaded and one out. Ozuna struck out and once again it was Albert Pineiro with the 3-RBI double to break open the game and make it 9-5. The score reached 11-5 before Hilton Downard was finally granted mercy and pulled from the game. A 1-2-3 9th ended the game.

Phoenix's Phillip White became the first player for an American team to hit a homerun and the first one to hit a multi-run homer in the Phoenix's 4-0 shutout of Santa Fe, and Pittsburgh's Kent Eisenberg pitched the association's first complete game - a 9-1 Rhinos topping of the Growlers.

Historic yes, but later on that same day, Milton Brinkman of the Carslbad Cyclones topped that with a four-hitter complete game 8-0 shutout of Corpus Christi.

Savannah-Tulsa went 11, the third multi-inning game in association history, with the host Bananas eking out the 2-1 win on a walkoff homer by Jose Saenz
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