It’s wholesale change for the SL as we open the 5th - Watson (CF), Perez (C), Wallace (SS), Escamilla (1B), Tall (3B), Montoya (RF), Pedro Rodriguez (2B) and Torres (LF) and Fargo’s Jose Joje will take over on the mound for the SL…
Yuma
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5:27 PM
Somewhere south in the burg of Yuma, a solitary fan watching on tv cheered, Torres!
Mike - Borealis
The Claymore’s Juan Ramos will be first to great the young Dinosaur star… and Ramos skims one to the right - Escamillas divess for it - grabs it and flips it to Joje covering - and he drops the ball - the first error of the game as Ramos is safe at first…
That brings Iwao Yamamoto to the plate… And Joje get’s him swinging at three straight pitches for the first out of the inning…
That brings up ‘Mounds’… and he loops one to right - fielded by Montoya - Ramos turns second and heads to third - Montoya with a strong throw - the tag - OUT!!! Montoya nails Ramos for the second out!!
With 2-down, it’s Roberto Garcia of the Scottish who comes out of the dugout to hit for ‘Strum’… and he lines the ball to left on the first pitch he sees, Gallo stops at second…
Coming out of the dugout is Jose Perez of Florida - it was expected to be Arlington’s Kaleb Felton, but we are getting word he’s been in the clubhouse with severe chills since the pre-game warmups… But Perez turns on the first pitch, ripping it down the right field line and it rolls al the way to the wall - Gallo scores, Garcia scores all the way from 1st - Perez cruises into second with a 2-run double - and it’s now 5-3…
Michael - Hitmen
5:36 PM
Come back brewing??
Mike - Borealis
5:38 PM
That brings up West Virginia’s Javier Drake to hit for Sandor Vis, with his former teammate John Lightbody, now of New Jersey already in the on deck circle warming up…
And Drake lines it past Robert Tall at 3rd, hugging the line - Yuma’s Alfredo Torres has nothing to do with the ball but throw it in to short - Perez scores, Drake chugs into second with an RBI double and it’s 5-4…
But it is Lightbody who puts the rally to bed as he pops it high and foul towards the first base dugout - Tempe’s Noberto Escamilla makes the grab and the inning is over - but what an inning for the IL…
Off to the bottom of 5…
SL 5 - IL 4