| Fighting Sioux starter Jeff Suppan, perhaps unnerved by pitching on Franklin County Correctional Center Day (aka, "Take a prisoner to the ballpark day"), made an early exit. Said Suppan, "Look, when they started that 'hey Soup, toss my salad' chant, I really just wanted to get out of there. So I was basically just putting it on a tee at that point. And when I saw the batboy sharpening the fungo to make the Mother of All Shanks, I was done. Maybe Ugueth Urbina can handle that kind of sh**, but not me man. Not me." With the lead "securely" in hand at 14-3 after the 3rd, the hometown Cannibals began a parade of defensive substititutions. However, the Sioux weren't done yet, as their offense staged a 13-run jailbreak from the 4th inning on. Luckily for LCC, their 18 runs and 6 homers (including a 1st inning inside-the-park job by Rickie Weeks) were just enough to carry the day. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2008 Vermont Fighting Sioux At 2008 Lake Champlain Canniba 5/9/2008
Fighting Sioux AB R H RBI AVG Cannibals AB R H RBI AVG
M.Loretta 2B 2 3 0 0 .318 K.Lofton LF 2 1 1 0 .344
D.Jeter SS 5 0 0 1 .302 B-J.Francoeur PH,RF 4 2 2 3 .209
A.Pujols 1B 6 1 1 1 .305 C.Granderson CF 6 1 1 2 .400
F.Thomas DH 4 4 4 6 .262 C.Jones SS,3B 6 4 3 3 .342
R.Zimmerman 3B 3 2 1 1 .267 D.Ortiz 1B 4 1 1 1 .381
C.Snyder C 5 0 2 2 .300 J.Thome DH 1 1 1 0 .350
E.Byrnes LF 5 0 1 1 .253 C-J.Gomes PH 2 1 0 0 .225
C.Blake RF 4 1 0 0 .275 J.Drew RF,LF 2 1 1 1 .293
C.Crisp CF 3 3 2 0 .221 D-C.Hart PH,LF 3 2 3 1 .241
R.Doumit C 1 1 1 4 .333
A-B.McCann PH,C 4 1 3 2 .270
R.Weeks 2B 4 1 1 1 .270
E-A.Cora 2B 1 0 1 0 .216
E.Encarnacion 3B 5 1 1 0 .172
F-E.Renteria SS 0 0 0 0 .306
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Totals 37 14 11 12 Totals 45 18 20 18
A-Pinch Hit For Doumit In 2nd Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Lofton In 2nd Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Thome In 3rd Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Drew In 3rd Inning
E-Subbed Defensively (2B) For Weeks In 6th Inning
F-Subbed Defensively (SS) For Encarnacion In 9th Inning
Fighting Sioux.. 0 1 0 1 4 3 0 5 0 - 14 11 1
Cannibals.......10 2 2 1 1 0 2 0 - 18 20 1
Fighting Sioux (21-24) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
J.Suppan LOSS(2-2) 0 6 7 7 1 0 1 7.19
E.Santana 2 1/3 7 7 6 2 3 3 6.91
D.Oliver 3 2/3 3 2 2 0 2 1 2.28
O.Villarreal 0 2/3 2 2 2 0 0 1 4.50
B.Wagner 1 1/3 2 0 0 0 1 0 5.96
Totals 8 20 18 17 3 6 6
Cannibals (23-13) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
E.Bedard WIN(4-2) 5 6 9 9 6 5 2 7.42
J.Cruz HOLD(2nd) 3 4 5 3 3 3 0 5.70
R.Franklin 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 4.32
Totals 9 11 14 12 9 10 2
ATTENDANCE- 39,285 DATE- Monday, May 9th 2008 TIME- Day
T- 4:00
LEFT ON BASE- Fighting Sioux: 7 Cannibals: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Fighting Sioux: 0 Cannibals: 1
ERRORS- A.Pujols, C.Granderson
DOUBLES- A.Pujols(11th), R.Zimmerman(13th), C.Snyder(2nd), C.Granderson(12th),
C.Jones(10th), D.Ortiz(9th), C.Hart-3(6th), B.McCann-2(8th),
E.Encarnacion(2nd)
TRIPLES- E.Byrnes(3rd)
HOME RUNS- F.Thomas-2(9th), J.Francoeur-2(3rd), C.Jones-2(11th), R.Doumit(4th),
R.Weeks(5th)
SACRIFICE FLIES- F.Thomas
WALKS- M.Loretta-4, D.Jeter, R.Zimmerman, C.Blake, C.Crisp-2, D.Ortiz, J.Thome,
J.Gomes
HIT BY PITCH- R.Zimmerman
STRIKE OUTS- M.Loretta, D.Jeter-2, A.Pujols-2, C.Snyder, E.Byrnes, C.Blake-2,
C.Crisp, C.Granderson-2, D.Ortiz, J.Drew, B.McCann, R.Weeks
GIDP- A.Pujols
WILD PITCHES- D.Oliver
Shortstop Chipper Jones blasted 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI as the Lake Champlain
Cannibals topped the Vermont Fighting Sioux by a score of 18 to 14 at
Creutzfeldt-Jakob's.
Jones provided much of the offense. He doubled resulting in a run in the 1st
inning, lofted a solo-blast 'downtown' in the 3rd inning and smashed a
solo-shot out of the park (his 11th of the season) in the 7th inning. Lake
Champlain kept the scorekeepers busy in the 1st inning with 10 runs on 9
hits. Vermont was not lacking for run support as they scored in 5 separate
innings, yet victory eluded them as they seemed to forget that pitching is
also needed to win ballgames.
Erik Bedard(4-2) was the winner allowing 9 runs in 5 innings. Jeff Suppan(2-2)
was given the loss.
