Inmates 6, Warpigs 4

Inmates 6 – Warpigs 4 (cards and dice)

Pigs 7 – Inmates 2 (Baptist Bowl): A five-spot in the 5^th (including a pair of homers) gave the Pigs all they needed in a game that shouldn’t have been as close as it was. The Porcine Pack continually squandered scoring opportunities and probably should have scored fifteen. The LDMF showed up and had their buttocks pummeled.

Corey Seager and J.T. Realmuto had the Pig homers. Wainwright got the win. Pigs left 14 men on base; the Inmates only reached base 7 times.

Pigs 4 – Inmates 3 (15 innings – Baptist Bowl): A Santana homer in the Inmate 7^th was the last of the scoring for both teams, allowing the Pigs to show off their propensity for playing extra-inning games. AJ Ramos allowed a tater to some nameless bastard in the 15^th to give the Porkers a lead, and then the LDMF made another appearance in the bottom of the inning when the Inmates put two on but couldn’t score.

Tommy Pham hit the winning homer. Raisel Iglesias was the hero, going 4 innings of shutout relief. Carl Edwards got the win and Adam Warren the save. Pigs are 9-2 now in extra inning games. Six of those eleven games have gone 15 innings or longer.

Inmates 4 – Pigs 2 (Baptist Bowl): Still another show of offensive ineptitude, which came to an end when Santana hit a two-out three-run walk-off spud off of Doolittle to finally allow the Beakless Chicken to do the Eye-Gouge.

Jacob deGrom went 8 innings, allowing 3 hits and no walks while striking out 10. I have no idea why I pulled him for the 9th.

Inmates 7 – Pigs 5 (Ballpork): After going 0-for the first three games of the series, Altuve exploded for a pair of doubles, a homer and five ribbies to lead the Beakless Chicken Gang.

Adrian Beltre and Aaron Judge homered for the good guys.

Inmates 3 – Pigs 1 (Ballpork): Quintana and a pair of relievers held the Porcine Wonders to only four hits, while Altuve continued his unconsciousness with three RBI singles.

I hate to correct the HEAD INMATE, but the final score of this game was 2-1. Little Mr. Altuve did have three singles, but only two of them scored runs. Judge homered for the only Pig run.

Pigs 4 – Inmates 3 (Baptist Bowl): Yet another close game, with the PigPen totally shutting down the Beakless Bastards. The home teams continually had problems throughout the day, as only one game out of ten was won by the hosts.

Beltre and Christian Yelich went back-to-back with homers in the 3rd inning. The deciding run scored in the 8th when Judge led off with a triple and Seager came thru with a 2-out single to put the Pigs ahead.

Pigs 16 – Inmates 3 (Baptist Bowl): Nothing close here, as the Pigs jumped out to a 15-0 lead before the LDMF got their first hit. One thing of interest (since the game sucked for the home faithful): the Pigs managed all of their runs despite K’ing fifteen times and hitting into a DP.

The one and only fun game of the whole day... The Pigs scored 4 in the 1st, 5 in the 2nd, and 6 in the 4th to jump to a quick 15-0 lead. The Pigs had 16 hits and 8 walks to counter those 15 Ks. Jake Lamb was 4-4 with 2 walks. He scored 3 and drove in 4. Tommy Pham homered and doubled before taking an early exit from the game.

Inmates 4 – Pigs 1 (Ballpork): Manaea out-dueled Severino for an Inmate win. Castro homered for the winners.

The Inmates cheat.

Inmates 2 – Pigs 1 (Ballpork): In a bizarre twist, both managers pulled their starting pitchers (Salazar and Odorizzi) at the end of the 5^th inning despite both tossing one-hit shutouts. An unearned run capped the Inmate 7^th, which turned out to be the winning run. The LDMF managed only four hits in the win.

It's pretty sad when, faced with a 2-1 deficit in the 9th, with runners at 1st and 2nd and 2 outs, you're forced to bring Adam Wainwright in to pinch hit.

Inmates 5 – Pigs 3 (Ballpork): Cespedes hit a grand-slam in the 3^rd and the Inmates held on to take the series finale. Starting in the 4^th, the Pigs changed pitchers every inning to shut down the Inmates on no hits and two walks. Each of the six relievers also recorded a single strikeout.

Well, that's almost accurate. Actually the last 2 of the 6 relievers, who each threw exactly one inning, had 2 strikeouts each. But yeah, deGrom's uncharacteristic bad start signaled an opportunity to get him some rest, so the bullpen worked the rest of the game as if it were an All Star game, going one inning each - and not allowing a hit in the process. The Pigs made the Inmates sweat a little with a 3-run 8th that saw 6 consecutive hitters reach base - and all that happened off of Bradley and Green. But it was too little, too late. 

Understanding that this will sound a LOT like the HEAD INMATE, the Pigs outscored the Inmates (44-38) and out hit them (87-69). We even out walked them (45-28). The Inmates did have more homers, but it was only a 10-9 difference. Alas, we just couldn't get the right hits at the right time, and lost the series.