BOX Baseball - Game 50 at Arizona

Game 50- The Arizona trip ends up being a complete nightmare. This one specifically mine. I had two errors at second base, a booted grounder in the eighth and a dropped pop up in the ninth, that led directly to four Arizona runs, as we once again blew a late lead and lost it to a Conner Jackson walk-off homer in the bottom of the 12th. Final score Arizona 5, BOX 4.

Laura pitched well going 6 shut out innings. Our offense was limited, but we scratched out the first run off Brandon Webb (for the purposes of this game Brandon Webb was coming off his 22-7 season, so he's pretty good) on a single, stolen base, and 2 ground outs. Later Chimpy came through with a bases loaded single to plate 2 and give us a 4-0 lead. And then it was time for another case of bullpen follies.

In the 8th my comedy of errors began with high chopper that I tried to throw before I caught it. That put a runner on first who scored when the next batter lined a double off the wall. The D-backs 2nd run scored with 2 outs in the eighth so while it wasn't technically unearned, if I had made the play to start the inning there would have been three outs and they would have been held to one run.

In the ninth I lost a high pop-up in the lights. I should have let Woodyard come in to make the catch, but I was too busy listening to my iPod to hear him call me off. There should have been a 2-outs and nobody on base when Mark Reynolds stepped to plate. If that had been the case, we still would have had a one run lead after his homer. Instead the game was tied at 4 and with our offense unable to score, Arizona was set up to finish off a soul-crushing sweep in the 12th.

Notes: Kaylor's home run streak ended at 5 games (7 homers.) He ripped into one in the 4th but it was to straight away center and directly into a swift breeze which knocked the ball down... Charlotte pitched a career high 3 innings and had her first at-bat... Kaylor was named National League Player of the Week for his crazy home run hitting antics.

BOX at Diamondbacks - Chase Field
May 25, 2008	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Extras	R	H	E
Dayton (36-14)	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	000	4	15	2
Arizona (27-23)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	001	5	12	0
Player of the Game: Connor Jackson (walk off homer)
W: Medders (6-1) L: Raffio (2-2)

HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Woodyard	6	0	2	0	0	0	0
Joey	6	0	1	0	0	0	0
Matt	6	1	3	0	0	0	0
Kaylor	6	1	1
Ryno	5	0	0	1
Dave	5	1	3	1
Werley	5	1	2	0
Ken	4		2
Agati	1		0
Laura	1		0
Chimpy	1	0	1	2
Jenny	1		0
Cbug	1		0
BATTING: 2B: Kaylor, Werley SAC: Laura
BASERUNNING: SB: Woodyard, Joey, Matt, Dave, Werley
FIELDING: E: Matt (2) DP: Joey-Matt-Ryno

PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Laura	6	7	0	0	1	4		1.79
Alicia	1	2	2	1				2.54
Jay	.2	0	0	0				3.67
Bill S.	.1	1	0	0				5.40
Cbug	3	1	2	1		1	1	2.79
Greg	.2	1	1	0			1	2.32

Please forgive the incomplete BOXscore, I was typing it into my phone because of the lack of readily available computer.