Inmates 7, Warpigs 3

Have you ever lost a game in extra innings when your left fielder fell down after making a catch, allowing the winning run to tag up and score FROM SECOND?

The Inmates can write his own damn game stories.

The only good that came out of this, is that HE is the one about to have his life turned upside down. That alone makes me laugh.

I hate Strat.

And now for something completely different...

Inmates 7 – Warpigs 3 (Inmate version):

 

Inmates 5 – Warpigs 2 (Baptist Bowl): Jones hits a pair of homers, Quintana outduels Fernandez. Garden-variety, Bb game with nothing spectacular or unusual happening.

 

Inmates 4 – Warpigs 3 (12 Innings – Baptist Bowl): Salazar and Strasburg duel to a 3-3 tie with Salazar K’ing 10 in 8 innings while allowing only three hits (including a 3-run tater). Bizarreness starts to creep into the events as both Pig leftfielders make 2-base errors which result in unearned Inmate runs - - the last of which scored in the bottom of the 12^th after a two-out walk-off double by Beltre.

 

Warpigs 7 – Inmates 2 (Baptist Bowl): What is apparently a totally expected outcome – Parker pitches poorly and the Pigs jump in his shit – has a pair of unusual Inmate innings. In the 3^rd, Peralta walks four Inmates (including Beltre with the bases juiced) but the Inmates can only manage one run when Jones misses a BP homer chance with two outs. Then in the 7^th the Inmates manage four consecutive singles only to have Sanchez hit into a double-fucking-play with the bases loaded to end the inning. Again, lots of thunder with no rain as the LDMF score just once in the inning.

 

Inmates 4 – Warpigs 1 (BallPork): Despite scoring 7 runs in game three of the series the Pigs really don’t hit very well. Yadier lives in the 2 column (shades of Mike Trout), and the Porkers once again cannot solve Quintana. More semi-weird shit: Parra begins a stretch where he starts the Inmate 1^st inning with an extra-base hit in 4 of 5 games. Peralta is hit hard in the first two innings.

 

Inmates 13 – Warpigs 10 (BallPork): Wheeler gets pummeled, allowing nine runs on nine hits and three walks in 1 2/3 innings. Parker is the Inmate starter, however, so the Porcine Pounders make it a game anyway before running out of innings.

 

Warpigs 6 – Inmates 4 (Baptist Bowl): The Pigs finally solve Quintana. Altuve hits into a DFP after the Inmates score two in the 9^th, ending the game.

 

Inmates 3 – Warpigs 1 (Baptist Bowl): Peralta and Parker pitch in very un-Parker and Peralta-like fashion, engaging in a pitcher’s duel. A Rizzo 3-run tater is all the scoring the Inmates get and need.

 

Warpigs 5 – Inmates 3 (BallPork): The last Bb game, although Peralta does pitch OK.

 

Inmates 5 – Warpigs 4 (10 Innings – BallPork): Inmates get 16 hits but generate very little offense. Wheeler is yanked in the 1^st.  Jump to the bottom of the 9^th: The Warpig 20-sided die misses a 1-15 HR with a runner on (settling for a triple), but get a 1-3 single one batter later to send the game into extra innings. It didn’t matter. A Segura single scores Rizzo in the 10^th for the Inmate win to keep both teams on the emotional rollercoaster.

 

Inmates 5 – Warpigs 4 (10 Innings – BallPork): Same type of stuff in the series finale. Inmates head into the bottom of the 9^th with Grilli on the hill and a 4-3 lead. He strikes out the side!...but not before allowing a game-tying homer to send the game into extra innings. Move to the Inmate 10^th for final weirdness: Sogard and Pierzynski both single with one out, putting Inmates on first and second. Satin hits a flyball lf x, which winds up being an F1 with a rare play – the fielder catches the ball but is dazed after running into wall. Both runners tag and advance two bases. Sogard scores the winning run, Grilli doesn’t fuck up the last of the 10^th, and the Inmates win again.

 

Postscript: This is not a prototypical Pig team. The starting pitching is good for the first three rotation spots, but the bullpen is only OK. There is no offense. Yadier’s card is scary, but he lives in the 2 column.

 

The HEAD INMATE