The Grundy County Herald reported that Dallas Fort Worth took 2 of 3 from the Griz in Grundy County's first Block II home series. Not so surprising, especially after the Griz gave up 5 quality players for one of the hottest prospects in the 2008 draft. However, the story got a little murky.
Game 1 was won by the Grizzlies in 11. Yeah - the winning hit, or sacrifice in this case, was delivered by Ben Sheets who was pinch-hitting for one of our starting nine, who could not bunt as well. Garland had pitched 10 great innings for the Bears, only to get a no decision.
Game 2 was going much like Game 1 - score tied 1 - 1 going into the 7th when the Spurs rolled an unbelievable streak of 9 straight hits off three separate Griz pitchers cards, including starter Ben Sheets who collected the loss. NINE BLEEP-BLEEP HITS off my pitchers cards, weakening starter Ben Sheets and reliever Anthony Reyes without one roll on a hitters card, not a walk, not a groundball, popout, flyball, anything but hits on my pitchers cards. Eight Runs - I have never seen anything like that - it rates with the couple of no-hitters I have witnessed, 4 HRs in a game by one of my ballplayers, and scoring 23 runs in one game - the last 2 incidents are my personal highlights. The Spurs luck while a highlight was a lowlight for my pitching staff. Oh, well.
Game 3 was another Griz let down - Bear fans had too many of these over the years. The Spurs scored 6 uninspiring runs and then threw out a Bear trying to score from second to stop a home team rally and effectively put the game out of reach. The lone Griz highlight was Zack Greinke's relief effort. The Spurs reached Greinke in 1 1/3 innings, make him weak and then he buckled down and pitched perfect relief for 5 innings and looking like a future #1 SP.
We are not throwing our cards in at this time. At 24 - 24 - we look forward to our next series vs the Illinois Chow Chows.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment