Warpigs 6, Nads 4

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Game 1 - Nads win 5-0. R.A. Dickey with the shutout. Starlin Castro homered.

Game 2 - Warpigs win 1-0. Aaron Judge singles in a 1st inning run and Adam Wainwright does the rest, earning a rare shutout.

Game 3 - Warpigs win 5-2. Jacob deGrom gets the win. Joe Mauer had 3 hits, scored 2, and drove in 2.

Game 4 - Nads win 4-0. Another shutout, this one by Jose Urena and five Nad relievers.

Game 5 - Warpigs win 6-1. A Tommy Pham 3-run homer helped Waino to another win.

Game 6 - Warpigs win 4-2. The Pigs scored 4 in the 4th, thanks in part to a 2-run shot from Christian Yelich. Jacob deGrom threw 8 shutout innings before calling it a day.

Game 7 - Warpigs win 6-2. Roberto Perez hit a 2nd inning Grand Slam.

Game 8 - Nads win 5-3. The Nads scored 3 runs in the 9th inning for the come from behind win.

Game 9 - Warpigs win 6-5 in 25 innings. Yep, that's not a typo. 25 innings. A new league record for the longest game, and it was epic. Actually, it was mostly epic failure. The Nads and Pigs traded leads early, but finished the 9th tied at 3. The Nads scored a run in the 12th on a walk, a "runner held" single, and a sac fly. But the Warpigs tied it in the bottom of the inning when pinch hitter Jeremy Hazelbaker doubled with 2 out to score Joe Mauer. Many many outs later, Jose Ramirez led off the 25th inning with a solo homer to put the Nads back up. In the bottom of the 25th, Roberto Perez singled and Christian Yelich followed with a double (just missing the walkoff homer roll). With Pham due up and nobody out, the Nads turned to Jhoulys Chacin (despite his SP-only status). Looking back on it now, maybe the Nads intended to bring in Urena, who was still available. Anyway, Chacin strikes out Pham, but Ezequiel Carrerra dumps a single into left-center to score both runners and end the game, sending the remaining 14 fans home happy.

Notables from the game...

• The Nads had 20 hits in 92 official at bats. They struck out 26 times and left 24 men on base. The ABs, the Ks, and the LOB are most likely all NASOMA records. Besides Stroman's 8 innings of work to start the game, Brandon McCarthy tossed 6.1 no hit innings, and Joe Biagini followed him with 6 innings of 2-hit shutout ball. The two of them combined for 12.1 straight innings of 2-hit shutout ball before Brandon Kintzler was aroused from a deep sleep and promptly shat the bed.
• The Warpigs only managed 10 hits in their 25 innings, with Corey Seager (0-10), Pham (0-8), Lemahieu (1-9), and Judge (1-8) all deciding to suck at the same time. The Pigs used 7 different batters in the 5-hole during the game, including 3 SPs to pinch bunt. The other 4 all played 3b, with Jose Pirela ready to make it 5 third basemen - but he never got into the game. Severino threw the first 7 innings, but of the 7 relievers, Adam Warren threw 5, and Ryan Buchter - the star of the game and the last pitcher available - threw the final 7.1, the last two tired, to earn the much deserved win.
• The BallPork in Hooterville has no lights, but some of the players pulled their cars around to shine a little light on the field. There were a lot of dead car batteries after the game.
• Innings 16 thru 22 were played despite a torrential downpour, with neither team refusing to postpone. It's okay, though. We really needed the rain.

Game 10 - Nads win 4-0. The third Nad shutout of the day was fairly anti-climactic after the marathon, except for the fact that the guy throwing the shutout (Chacin) had just blown a save the day before. Another NASOMA first.