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After a heartbreaking 2-1 loss to St. Petersburg in the opening round game, the Balts powered thru the normal blown hammies and locked up calfs to take 2 games and enter Friday in the Final 6!!!
First Win came with T-Stone throwing hot-mess-stuff to shut down the fast running and gap hitting Texas Express from Houston. Mike Gastrich with a 3 run bomb, Adrian Schau with an awesome gun from left field to nail a speedy go-ahead runner. Rocky and Stiggy with RBIs and the Cobalts win 6-4. Awesome plate work by Tyler Schunk.
But no rest for the weary as game 2 starts before Coach can buy a round of gatoraides....and lucky us, its the 2 time consecutive defending World Champion Canton Stallions. Not sure if the northern ohio bunch took the lowly 13 Natty Boys serious but Adrian Schau was getting their attention on the hill as we took a 3-3 tie into the 8th inning thanks to his right arm. Then hot hitting John Kennedy reached on his second hit of game, was bunted over, then stole 3rd, and scored on Jason Cohill's sac fly.....uh oh, Balts up 4-3! So Schau running on fumes takes on the meat of the powerful Stallions lineup in bottom of 8th. They hit a couple consecutive balls hard but good defense from Kennedy and Jinkins gets the outs but then a single, and a double with tying run rounding 3rd.... but an incredible relay from Thamann to Schunk guns their runner at home to end the inning! Adrian shuts them down in 9th for complete game and a huge win for the Balts.
Next up for the undersized, out-numbered, dirty uniformed and jaeger bomb smelling crew from The Natti is the Albany Athletics. Curfew set at midnight.....think any of the 13 Cobalts gonna be home by then?.?.?
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