Garrett Richards (17-6, 3.55 ERA) vs. Wade Miley (11-10, 4.82 ERA)
Having split the first two games, Parkland and Fleetwood moved the NL Divisional Series to Parkland for Game 3. Matching up on the mound were Fleetwood righty Garrett Richards and Parkland lefty Wade Miley.
On paper, the matchup did not look inspiring for the hometown Parkland faithful. During the regular season, Fleetwood's lineup crushed lefties like Miley to the tune of a .312 team batting average, a .392 team on-base percentage and a .504 team slugging percentage.
But Parkland's offense was no slouch either, having scored 902 runs during the regular season. That performance was 4th best in all of BRASSball, behind only Santa Barbara (975), Metropolis (936) and Fleetwood (932). And given Parkland's homer-friendly ballpark (253 total home runs, the most in BRASSball; 138 hit by Parkland, 115 hit by Parkland opponents), the next few games figured to be high scoring affairs.
And for the third time in three games, Parkland drew first blood. This time, it was star first baseman Joey Votto who did the damage, crushing a 96-mile-per-hour Garrett Richards fastball deep to the opposite field for a solo home run. The blast seemed to rattle Richards, who then immediately surrendered a walk to Jose Bautista and a double to Ben Zobrist. But the Fleetwood pitcher finally gathered himself, and retired Khris Davis on a groundout to prevent any further damage.
Fleetwood's lineup answered the bell in the 3rd inning. Ian Kinsler led off the frame with a double. After two quick outs, David Wright knocked Kinsler in with a double of his own. Miguel Cabrera followed that with an RBI single, putting Fleetwood up 2-1. Carlos Correa then joined in on the fun, hitting a double that sent Cabrera racing around second and third. But a strong throw from center fielder Lorenzo Cain beat the lumbering Cabrera to the plate, and he was easily tagged out to end the threat.
Votto was there again for Parkland in the bottom of the 3rd inning, this time pulling a home run to deep right field for his second solo homer of the game. The game was now knotted 2-2.
Fleetwood's Marwin Gonzalez led of the 4th inning just two batters later, and he joined in on the home run fun as well with a solo shot of his own. When Francisco Cervelli collected a single just two batters after that, Miley's day was done in favor of Parkland reliever Alex Colome. Colome quickly retired Kinsler and Tommy Pham to keep the score at 3-2 in favor of Fleetwood.
Parkland failed to score in the 4th, but Fleetwood added another run in the 5th on a double by Chris Coghlan, an infield single by Carlos Correa, and (following a pitching change to Jeremy Jeffress) an RBI single by Justin Turner. The score was now Fleetwood 4, Parkland 2.
Neither team mounted any threats in the 6th or 7th innings, but Fleetwood put more pressure on Parkland in the 8th. Now facing the imposing Jose Fernandez -- who had been assigned bullpen duty for this series to better manage on-going elbow soreness -- Correa and Turner led off the innings with back-to-back singles. Parkland quickly turned to Greg Holland to put out the fire, but Holland walked Mookie Betts to load the bases with nobody out.
Holland then firmed up, striking out Kevin Kiermaier. Kinsler was up next, and managed a medium-deep fly ball to center that was deep enough to plate Correa. Holland was one batter away from limiting the damage to one run, but Fleetwood backup catcher Curt Casali had other ideas. Casali launched a deep home run to left-center field, and the Walkers suddenly found themselves with a commanding 8-2 lead.
Miguel Cabrera hit another Fleetwood home run in the top of the 9th to cap the game's scoring. Five homers had been hit in total on this day, with Fleetwood coming out on top this time in both homers (3 versus 2) and total runs.
Final Score: Fleetwood 9, Parkland 2.
W: Antonio Bastardo (1-0)
L: Wade Miley (0-1)
SV: None
HR: Curt Casali (1), Miguel Cabrera (1), Marwin Gonzalez (1), Joey Votto 2 (2).
Fleetwood leads series 2-1.
On paper, the matchup did not look inspiring for the hometown Parkland faithful. During the regular season, Fleetwood's lineup crushed lefties like Miley to the tune of a .312 team batting average, a .392 team on-base percentage and a .504 team slugging percentage.
But Parkland's offense was no slouch either, having scored 902 runs during the regular season. That performance was 4th best in all of BRASSball, behind only Santa Barbara (975), Metropolis (936) and Fleetwood (932). And given Parkland's homer-friendly ballpark (253 total home runs, the most in BRASSball; 138 hit by Parkland, 115 hit by Parkland opponents), the next few games figured to be high scoring affairs.
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| Joey Votto 1st inning home run |
Fleetwood's lineup answered the bell in the 3rd inning. Ian Kinsler led off the frame with a double. After two quick outs, David Wright knocked Kinsler in with a double of his own. Miguel Cabrera followed that with an RBI single, putting Fleetwood up 2-1. Carlos Correa then joined in on the fun, hitting a double that sent Cabrera racing around second and third. But a strong throw from center fielder Lorenzo Cain beat the lumbering Cabrera to the plate, and he was easily tagged out to end the threat.
Votto was there again for Parkland in the bottom of the 3rd inning, this time pulling a home run to deep right field for his second solo homer of the game. The game was now knotted 2-2.
Fleetwood's Marwin Gonzalez led of the 4th inning just two batters later, and he joined in on the home run fun as well with a solo shot of his own. When Francisco Cervelli collected a single just two batters after that, Miley's day was done in favor of Parkland reliever Alex Colome. Colome quickly retired Kinsler and Tommy Pham to keep the score at 3-2 in favor of Fleetwood.
Parkland failed to score in the 4th, but Fleetwood added another run in the 5th on a double by Chris Coghlan, an infield single by Carlos Correa, and (following a pitching change to Jeremy Jeffress) an RBI single by Justin Turner. The score was now Fleetwood 4, Parkland 2.
Neither team mounted any threats in the 6th or 7th innings, but Fleetwood put more pressure on Parkland in the 8th. Now facing the imposing Jose Fernandez -- who had been assigned bullpen duty for this series to better manage on-going elbow soreness -- Correa and Turner led off the innings with back-to-back singles. Parkland quickly turned to Greg Holland to put out the fire, but Holland walked Mookie Betts to load the bases with nobody out.
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| Carlos Correa slides safely into home in 8th inning |
Miguel Cabrera hit another Fleetwood home run in the top of the 9th to cap the game's scoring. Five homers had been hit in total on this day, with Fleetwood coming out on top this time in both homers (3 versus 2) and total runs.
Final Score: Fleetwood 9, Parkland 2.
W: Antonio Bastardo (1-0)
L: Wade Miley (0-1)
SV: None
HR: Curt Casali (1), Miguel Cabrera (1), Marwin Gonzalez (1), Joey Votto 2 (2).
Fleetwood leads series 2-1.
BOXSCORE: 2016 Fleetwood Walkers At 2016 Parkland Green 10/11/2016
Walkers AB R H RBI AVG Green AB R H RBI AVG
T.Pham RF 4 0 0 0 .286 L.Cain CF 4 0 0 0 .133
D-C.Casali C 1 1 1 3 .250 M.Cabrera LF 4 0 0 0 .133
M.Trout CF,RF 5 0 0 0 .133 J.Votto 1B 4 2 2 2 .357
D.Wright DH 1 1 1 1 .500 J.Bautista RF 3 0 0 0 .200
A-C.Coghlan PH,DH 3 1 1 0 .500 B.Zobrist 2B 3 0 2 0 .417
M.Cabrera 1B 5 1 2 2 .231 K.Davis DH 3 0 0 0 .083
C.Correa SS 4 1 3 0 .444 F.Lindor SS 2 0 0 0 .167
M.Gonzalez 3B 2 1 1 1 .273 A.Guerrero 3B 2 0 0 0 .000
B-J.Turner PH,3B 3 1 2 1 .200 E-L.Valbuena PH,3B 2 0 0 0 .000
M.Betts LF 3 1 1 0 .083 Y.Grandal C 1 0 0 0 .286
F.Cervelli C 2 0 1 0 .286 F-M.Zunino PH,C 2 0 0 0 .000
C-K.Kiermaier PH,CF 2 0 0 0 .375
I.Kinsler 2B 3 1 1 1 .300
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Totals 38 9 14 9 Totals 30 2 4 2
A-Pinch Hit For Wright In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Gonzalez In 5th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Cervelli In 6th Inning
D-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Pham In 6th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Guerrero In 7th Inning
F-Pinch Hit For Grandal In 7th Inning
Walkers......... 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 1 - 9 14 0
Green........... 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 4 0
Walkers (2-1) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA SCORESHEET
G.Richards 4 4 2 2 3 1 2 4.50 A1 B9
C.Smith 2 0 0 0 1 3 0 0.00 C1 C7
A.Bastardo WIN(1-0) 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.00 C8 D4
S.Kelley 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0.00 D5
Totals 9 4 2 2 6 8 2
Green (1-2) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA SCORESHEET
W.Miley LOSS(0-1) 3 1/3 7 3 3 2 0 1 8.10 A1 B8
A.Colome 1 1/3 2 1 1 0 0 0 6.75 B9 C5
J.Jeffress 0 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 C6 C7
J.Fernandez 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 4.15 C8 D6
G.Holland 0 2/3 1 2 2 1 1 1 20.25 D7 E1
P.Strop 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 E2 E2
S.Geltz 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 4.50 E3
Totals 9 14 9 9 3 3 3
ATTENDANCE- 49,213 DATE- Tuesday, October 11th 2016 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
T- 2:44
LEFT ON BASE- Walkers: 6 Green: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- Walkers: 1 Green: 1
DOUBLES- D.Wright(1st), C.Coghlan(1st), C.Correa(1st), I.Kinsler(2nd),
B.Zobrist(1st)
HOME RUNS- C.Casali(1st), M.Cabrera(1st), M.Gonzalez(1st), J.Votto-2(2nd)
RBIs- C.Casali-3(3rd), D.Wright(2nd), M.Cabrera-2(3rd), M.Gonzalez(1st),
J.Turner(1st), I.Kinsler(1st), J.Votto-2(2nd)
SACRIFICE FLIES- I.Kinsler
WALKS- D.Wright, C.Correa, M.Betts, J.Bautista, B.Zobrist, K.Davis, F.Lindor-2,
Y.Grandal
STRIKE OUTS- M.Trout, J.Turner, K.Kiermaier, L.Cain-2, J.Votto, J.Bautista,
F.Lindor, L.Valbuena-2, M.Zunino
GIDP- M.Gonzalez, Y.Grandal
2-out RBI- J.Votto-2, D.Wright, M.Cabrera, J.Turner, C.Casali-3
RLISP 2-out- K.Davis-2, M.Betts, M.Zunino
TEAM RISP- Walkers: 5 for 10 Green: 0 for 3
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