@ The BallPork
Gm1 - Buckeyes win 3-2. R.A. Dickey and Adam Wainwright in a pitcher's duel. Dickey's only lapse was a 2-run homer to Alejandro De Aza, and his bullpen didn't let him down. The Pigs loaded the bases in the 9th with 2 outs, but came up short.
Gm2 - Warpigs win 5-4. This time Stephen Strasburg was the pitcher who got the bullpen help to get the win. Yadier Molina and De Aza homered for the Pigs, and Melky Cabrera had 3 hits. David Dejesus homered for the Buckeyes. Casey Fien got the last 3 outs for the save.
@ The Buckeye Livestock Pavilion
Gm3 - Warpigs win 11-8. Wainwright decided he did not like this ballpark. He gave up a grand slam to Jarrod Saltalamacchia and a 2-run homer to some other guy and left early trailing 6-2. But the Warpig batters decided this park WAS to their liking, adding a run in the 6th to get to 6-3, and then a 6-run marker in the 7th. The Pigs loaded the bases with nobody out before Scott Van Slyke plated 1 run with a SacFly. Darwin Barney bunted the other 2 runners over, leaving it to De Aza to play the hero. De Aza hit an omega to drive in both runners and give the Pigs the lead. But the Pigs were not done. Austin Jackson hit next and double to score De Aza. Albert Pujols came on to pinch hit for Flaherty and blasted a 2-run homer. Both teams scored 2 in the 8th, but Michael Wacha came in to get the Pigs out of an 8th inning jam, and Jake Odorizzi had a 3-up, 3-down 9th for his first save of the year.
Gm4 - Buckeyes win 3-2 in 10 innings. Darrin Ruf hit a 2-out walk off single in the 10th. Pujols homered again for the Pigs.
@ The BallPork
Gm5 - Warpigs win 4-3. This is not your granddaddy's Warpigs/Buckeyes match-up, but some of that old magic reared its marvelous head in game 5. Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th (and seriously, our 2 runs were on a home run by Brandon Crawford), the Pigs were facing Uehara once again. Pujols had a pinch hit single, but with 2 outs, Darwin Barney was due up. The pinch hit options on the bench were Austin Jackson (ugh), Matt Wieters (oof), and Ryan Flaherty (please). Jose Fernandez was the first thought in my mind, but he had been the starting pitcher and was long gone. Which all led to this:
Pigman: Believe it or not, the best chance I have for a homer is Ryan Flaherty. Our only chance is for him to roll 2-9.
Buckeyes: Okay
Pigman: And just in case he rolls 2-9 and misses the homer (1-14), I better have Jackson run for Pujols.
Buckeyes: Okay
(dice roll)
Buckeyes: Oh my
Oh somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright
A band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout
But we're partying here at the BallPork, for Flaherty hit it out.
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