Warpigs 5, Inmates 5

Made the long drive down to Waco today. Got to watch the Baptist Bowl Choralairs sing "Sit on My Face." Got to see George and Gracie. Got to win 5. Got to lose 5. Rolling dice at the Baptist Bowl is not a bad way to spend a Saturday.

Gm 1 (Baptist Bowl) - Warpigs win 4-2. Mike Minor goes 7 innings for the win. Mark Melancon got the save. Omar Infante homered for the Pigs. Carlos Gonzalez homered for the Inmates.

Gm 2 (Baptist Bowl) - Warpigs win 5-1. Erik Bedard went 8. Bedard and three relievers held the Inmates to 4 hits. Melancon got the save again. Dustin Ackley and Cameron Maybin homered for the Pigs, resulting in complete and utter embarrassment for the Inmate staff.

Gm 3 (The BallPork) - Warpigs win 5-3. Blake Beavan went 7 for the win with Melancon saving his 3rd straight game. The Pigs got homers from Jeff Francouer, Geovanny Soto, and Maybin.

Gm 4 (The BallPork) - Warpigs win 3-2 in 11 innings. In a game no one wanted, the Warpigs eeked out their 4th consecutive win. The Pigs had 11 baserunners in the last 4 innings, but didn't score any of them until Freddie Freeman drew a bases loaded, 2-out walk to end it. Omar Infante hit a 2-run homer in the 3rd inning, but the real story was the Mike Minor no-hit bid. Minor kept his perfect game going thru the first 17 batters before issuing a 6th inning walk. He lost the no-hitter after 1 out in the 7th. The shutout was still intact with 2 outs in the 9th when Kosuke Fukudome got a single 1-4 off of Mark Rzepczynski's card to keep the game alive. Adrian Beltre then hit a 2-run homer to tie the game. The LDMF's had only 5 hits, and all of them were by the 3 & 4 spots in the lineup.

Gm 5 (Baptist Bowl) - Inmates win 4-3. The ImpotentMates began to perk up, scoring the tying run in the 8th and the winning run on a bases loaded, walk off HBP in the 9th.

Gm 6 (Baptist Bowl) - Inmates win 11-8. Ugggggg Leeee. The two teams combined for 27 hits. The Inmates scored 4 times in the 8th, the last three coming on a 3-run double by Brian Bogusevic.

Gm 7 (Baptist Bowl) - Inmates win 3-1. Chad Billingsley gave up a lead off homer to Stephen Drew, then allowed pretty much nothing else.

Gm 8 (The BallPork) - Inmates win 5-3. I have no idea what happened in this game. We lost. That was enough. I think Billingsley pitched again. Series now tied 4-4.

Gm 9 (The BallPork) - Warpigs win 9-2. Edinson Volquez won his first game of the year. Dillon Gee went 4 innings of 1-hit ball for the save. Seriously, if Volquez and Gee can shut you down, you don't deserve to win.

Gm 10 (The BallPork) - Inmates win 9-1. I throw Volquez in game 9, and the Inmates can't hit. I throw Jeremy Hellickson in game 10, and they kick his ass. This is a weird game. The Inmates pounded 4 homers (in fairness, only 1 was off of Hellickson). Jhoulys Chacin looked like Cy Chacin. And frankly, if Chacin can shut you down, you don't deserve to win.

There were lots of fun stuff, too. The Inmates had an inning in game 5 that started triple, single, double... but they only scored 1 run, didn't attempt a steal, and left no one on base. The batter who singled was thrown out trying to score on the double. The runner who doubled was then doubled off third on a flyball-x to the outfield that resulted in a rare play. In the 11th inning of game 4, the Warpigs went walk, walk, sac, intentional walk, and then Ackley pinch hit and had a single 1-16 shot to end the game. Missed it. Then Freeman drew the 2-out walk. In game 8, Mike Leake pinch ran, and then stayed in to pitch the 9th. I've never had that happen before. In the bottom of the 9th inning in that game, the Pigs had 3 starting pitchers on the bench who could not legally play. There was no dh to hit/run for, and no bench players left to cover any positions. Cliff Pennington homered twice in the final game. It was that kind of day.