DVs 4, Tweeners 1

DVs play an interesting series with the Tweeners in what shaped up as an EQA extravaganza – but quickly turned into a grind it out, batter by batter death match.

Game 1 – DVs win 4-1 as Maholm pitches the game of his life.

Game 2 – Coming off the yawner of game 1, the DVs score 5 runs before any outs are recorded and appear to be safely on their way to a big win. So we decide to speed ahead to the top of the 7^th inning with the quick-play feature. WTH? WTF? Tweeners lead  14-11 as they rallied for 5 in the second and completely swamped Halladay with 13 runs in 4 1/3. Tweeners go on to win 24-15! Aoki hits 2 HR, has 5 hits and 9 RBI’s as the Tweeners score in every inning but the first. Welcome to the DVs 2013 season.

Game 3 – Figuring that another ridiculous softball scoring battle was shaping up, we decided to slow down and go batter by batter. 13 FREAKING SCORELESS INNINGS LATER – Holliday hits a walk off home run for a 3-0 DVs win. Interesting quirk was that the Tweeners walked Allen Craig to get to Holliday.

Game 4 – Stop me if you’ve heard this before – Milone doesn’t retire a batter before the Tweeners trail 4-0 and the CM pulls him. Tweeners answer with 4 in the second, then don’t score again as the DVs scratch out a 6-4 win. It was like games 2 and 3 got crashed together.

Game 5 – DV’s move to a 6-0 lead and look to coast into the post game buffet. Wrong – Tweeners tie it at 7 with 5 in the 7^th inning. Somehow the DVs sneak out a sac fly in the 8^th and hold on for a 8-7 win.