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vVeteran Chuck McKee lines a pinch hit single and Carl Hamelin coaxes a walk. The fans are going wild but the Tigs bring out Bob McGarr to snuff out the rally but its all tied up 6-6. Mike Cressand comes in to work for the Spiders and other than a double by (another damn George) Austin, no further damage results. In the top of the 11th lefty Herb Score came in to pitch for the Spiders and gets Gaddy on a ground ball out, but the ever dangerous Cedric Wheeler depoists a hanging Score breaking ball into the right field seats and its 7-6 Tigers.Don't tell this reporter that the Tigs are not fired up, it seemed the entire dug-out lead by the Mgr was there to greet Wheeler as he crossed the plate with the go ahead run. Score gets the side out and now we move to the bottem of the 11th.:D I wish I could give you the news that the Spides staged another miracle rally to come back and win it but fireballing Luther Chance came on to finish it up and his sinker and notorious change-up ended the Spides dreams with nothing more than two long fly outs that had the crowd on its feet screaming for the ball to carrry.There is no such thing as a moral victory but the fight the kids waged against the long ball hitting Tigers certainly showed this team is headed in the right direction.:cool:
Game Spiders take Detroit to extra innings before falling 7-6.
August 15, 2003 at 05:10PM View BBCode
The brash kids from Cleveland started the scoring in th third as with one out Carl Hamelin singled and following the second out Cliff Reilley trippled off the right field wall scoring Hamelin and setting the Web crowd into a frenzy.:D.Delgado then plunked Paul Molitor in the ribs and heated words were exchanged as Molitor was restrained by team-mates from charging the mound.Cooler heads prevailed however and play resumed. Jack Deal, playing probably in his last series as a starter with Merl (The Pearl) Combs due back off the DL shot a lazor off the right field foul pole scoring Reilley and Molitor ahead of him. 4-0 Spiders and the Web was bedlam. Stylish lefty Chris Tennants off speed junk held the Tigres at bay until with two gone in the fourth Stock & Crawford singled and Geo. Austin took advantage of a rookie mistake:o as he received new life when catcher Connie Martin failed to stop a sinker in the dirt that Austin had fanned at on a 3-2 count and Autin used the second chance to smash a hanging change-up from Tennant into orbit scoring Stock & Crawford ahead of him to cut the Clev. lead to 4-3. But Tennant seemed to settle down getting the first two Tigres in the 5th until(you guessed it) another George, Wilson caught up with a Tennant fastball and deposited it into the center field bleachers to tie the game at 4-4. The gritty Tennant toughed it out however,and survived into the Detroit 7th when an old friend, former Spider Dave Pope, pinch-hit for Delgado and singled. Gaddy also bingled but Tennant induced the dangerous Cedric Wheeler to ground into a twin-killing and it looked like he may pull another "Houdini" escape act.:P but "by George" Wilson sent the kid pitcher to the showers with a bloop single just outs of the reach of a diving Joe Grilli and Pope scores to give the Tigs a 5-4 lead.:( Ed Reeder came on to pitch and after a wild toss got Erickson to ground out. But no rest for the weary, as in the eighth the Tigs were at it again as Carpenter singled and rode home on a line drive double by the great Jesse (The Black Diamond) Crawford. Reeder then settled down and got Gaddy and pinch hitter Sheldon Maranga to stop the bleeding. 6-4 Detroit. The fun thing about kids is they don't know enough to be intimidated and in the Spiders eighth when usually reliable Luke Kennedy came on to set up the ending, lo and behold George Austin fields a Mike Adams ground ball sure out and flings it into the Spiders dugout for a two base error. With the Cleveland faithful screaming themselves hoarse, rookie catcher Connie Martin blasts his first big league homer scoring Adams ahead of him. 6-6 new ballgame!:DvVeteran Chuck McKee lines a pinch hit single and Carl Hamelin coaxes a walk. The fans are going wild but the Tigs bring out Bob McGarr to snuff out the rally but its all tied up 6-6. Mike Cressand comes in to work for the Spiders and other than a double by (another damn George) Austin, no further damage results. In the top of the 11th lefty Herb Score came in to pitch for the Spiders and gets Gaddy on a ground ball out, but the ever dangerous Cedric Wheeler depoists a hanging Score breaking ball into the right field seats and its 7-6 Tigers.Don't tell this reporter that the Tigs are not fired up, it seemed the entire dug-out lead by the Mgr was there to greet Wheeler as he crossed the plate with the go ahead run. Score gets the side out and now we move to the bottem of the 11th.:D I wish I could give you the news that the Spides staged another miracle rally to come back and win it but fireballing Luther Chance came on to finish it up and his sinker and notorious change-up ended the Spides dreams with nothing more than two long fly outs that had the crowd on its feet screaming for the ball to carrry.There is no such thing as a moral victory but the fight the kids waged against the long ball hitting Tigers certainly showed this team is headed in the right direction.:cool:
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