It may not have been as close as the earlier games, but the 16-6 final game of the 2013 World Series was a classic. The Pigs were rolling their 12th game of the day, but the Inmates were rolling their 18th! We were both tired, and after a 7-run 2nd inning by the Pigs, the game began to unravel a little. Here are some of the more memorable game 6 events:
In the 6th inning, the Inmates rolled a ss-x groundout followed by a gbA groundout, only to have me realize that I did NOT have my 1e12 in the game at ss, but instead still had the 1e24 in there, so the ss-x groundout should have been an error, but the following gbA made it a double play anyway.
Still in the 6th inning, the Inmates pinch hit Starling Marte for Danny Espinosa - forcing me to pull Darren Oliver for Fernando Rodney. I really wanted to leave Oliver in because Adrian Beltre was on deck. So... Rodney gets Marte out to end the inning, and then all hell breaks loose. The HEAD INMATE suddenly realizes that he COULDN'T hit for Espinosa because he was his last option at 2b. AND, it turns out, Marte had STARTED THE GAME! lol. So Espinosa has to hit for
himself, which means, of course, there was no need to pull Oliver. So back comes Espinosa. Back comes Oliver. The 3rd out is made (again), and Beltre leads off the next inning against... Oliver.
But the chaos didn't end there. After Oliver got Beltre out to start the next inning, Casey Janssen (not Rodney, who is somehow still available in the pen) comes in and immediately gives up a homer, but he then gets the next 3 batters in order, until The HEAD INMATE realizes, hey, there was already one out when he came in, so that last out shouldn't have batted.
It was quite a day at the Pigsty. Congratulations to all the teams for making the playoffs, and especially to the Inmates for getting to the World Series. Except for surrendering a 5-run 1st inning in game 1 and a 7-run 2nd inning in game 6, the Inmates would have won the Higdon.
Darren Oliver was the World Series MVP, going 2-0 in 10 innings of relief, allowing only 4 hits and 1 run and striking out 10. Edwin Encarnacion was 1-for-20 with no RBIs in the first 5 games of the Series, and then hit 3 homers and 2 doubles in game 6, knocking in 8.
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Inmates were fried by the end of the series. All games were close except the last two. And yes, game 6 was a classic. Very strange and funny.
Other weird notes of game 6; there were 11 (!) homers in the game, five by the Inmates. Rios and Hanigan both homered in the second, and were both HBP in the fourth. Coincidence? Hmmmm...
Adding to the confusion in game 6, the chair The HEAD INMATE had been sitting in all day finally decided it had had enough, giving way beneath him. He caught himself before tumbling to the floor, and no one was hurt, but a relief chair had to be brought in to finish the game.
I bet the chair crumbled as the Baptist Bowl Choralaires sang the classic "Sit on My Face if You Love Me"
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