The game started out rough for Elliot Glynn as he went 2 and 1/3 allowing 4 earned runs. Harold Martinez hit a 2-run homer of Glynn to give the Whitecaps a 4-0 lead. Orleans bullpen did great, however, by combining to pitch 5 and 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball.
Orleans started its comeback with a Mike Olt double and a Danny Muno sacrifice fly to score Olt. Jeremy Gould drove in the other Firebird run. That wasn't enough runs to outscore the Whitecaps. Orleans fell short 4-2.
Also contributing to the Firebirds offense were Riccio Torrez and his triple, Hampton Tignor's 2 hits, and Jeremy Gould's 2 hits.
The Orleans Firebirds are 19-16-1 and currently sit 2nd in the east. Remember, the top 3 teams in each division make the playoffs so they are almost in with Chatham (3rd place) having lost 8 in a row and still in 3rd.
Orleans needs 5 wins to clinch. With 8 games left this number seems hard to reach, but it is not what it seems. 5 games means that if Brewster wins all of its remaining 7 games then Orleans has to win 5. Every time the Firebirds win and (or) Brewster loses, the number decreases. They take on Falmouth tomorrow.
Game 1: 2-2. Matt Packer threw 6 and 2/3 innings and only allowed 3 hits and 2 earned runs. Devin Lohman and Steve Selsky drove in both Firebird runs on RBI singles. After 9 innings (D-H games are supposed to be 7 innings), the game was called.
Matt Koch wins it in the bottom of the 9th for Orleans by driving in Ross Heffley and Jeremy Gould! He singled to left in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, after fouling off 5 pitches. That's all for tonight as I have to finish packing for my trip to Orleans. Magic Number down to 2! D-H tomorrow at Wareham; no Twitter updates, sorry.
The game started out rough for Elliot Glynn as he went 2 and 1/3 allowing 4 earned runs. Harold Martinez hit a 2-run homer of Glynn to give the Whitecaps a 4-0 lead. Orleans bullpen did great, however, by combining to pitch 5 and 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball.
The Firebirds only get 1 point tonght as they tie the Brewster Whitecaps in 11 innings. In the 4th, Gary Brown tripled home a run and then scored to make it 2-1 Firebirds. Brown then hit a solo shot in the 7th to give the Firebirds a 3-1 lead over Brewster. Then, in the bottom of the 8th, Tim Ferguson hit a 2 run double to tie the game for the Whitecaps. Alex Hassan then proceeded to pitch a scoreless 9th. Orleans came close to pushing the winning run across but Jeremy Gould was thrown out at 2nd to end the top of the 11th. Brewster then got up and stranded runners at 1st and 3rd to end the ball game at a 3-3 tie.
