(3-7) tosses eight shutout innings, scattering eight hits and two walks while striking out two.
hits a pair of two-run home runs, and Seattle takes an 8-5 lead into the ninth. The Marauders load the bases and, with two outs and an 0-2 count,
hits a bases-clearing double to tie it. Smith then scores the winning run when
(6-3). Brooks pitches a complete game and allows only one run, a home run to
. Torero
June 11: Georgia 7, Minnesota 2. Evan Warner (7-5) pitches a complete game and allows only two runs on four hits. Ghost Buster
Dave Hall goes 3-for-3 with a double, home run, and three RBIs. Teammate
Tommy McCauley goes 4-for-5 with three RBIs.
June 12: Minnesota 0, Jacksonville 2. Joe Fuller (3-2) and three relievers combine to shutout the Berserkers. Fuller, in only his second major league start, works six innings and strikes out 10.
Cal Godleman drives in both of the game's runs, doubling in one in the second and hitting a sac fly in the fourth.
June 12: Jersey 2, Seattle 3. Rookie
Blake Reynolds hits a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to win the game for the Sasquatch.
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| Jorge Mora |
June 12: Eureka 3, New York 6. Mike Bergeron ties the game in the ninth with a two-out solo home run, but the Mafia win it in extras. Mafioso
Jorge Mora can consider himself a made man as he hits a walk-off three-run home run in the bottom of the 12th.
June 13: Minnesota 2, Jacksonville 0. Chris Wine and
Jamie Perkins pitch dueling shutouts: Wine goes eight innings and allows two hits, while Perkins goes seven while allowing three. The game goes into extra innings as a scoreless tie. The game is decided in the 10th, when
Eli Brandon lets a
Chip Render grounder get through his legs and allows
Dale Watson to score.
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Orlando
Bustamante |
June 13: South Carolina 6, Montgomery 5. Bomber
Orlando Bustamante hits a two-run homer in the fourth and doubles in a run in the fifth. The Cats, down 5-2 in the bottom of the ninth, rally for three runs and send the game into extras. But Bustamante waits for them there. His 12th-inning solo home run wins the game for the Bombers.
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| Rich Sweet |
June 14: Jersey 2, Minnesota 7. Rich Sweet, Minnesota's 27-year-old rookie, delighted the hometown crowd today by becoming the third ABL hitter to hit three home runs in one game. The second inning begins with Sweet,
Marvin Welch, and
Dale Watson hitting back-to-back-to-back home runs. In fact, Sweet and Welch hit theirs on the first two pitches of the inning, and Watson hits his on the second pitch that he sees: three home runs on four pitches! Sweet hits another solo home run in the bottom of the third. In the fifth, the Minneapolis crowd boos Jester pitcher Jon Andrews when he works around Sweet and walks him, but, in the seventh, Sweet once again swings at the first pitch, hitting a two-run homer to right-center.
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| Gordon Thornton |
June 14: South Carolina 6, Montreal 30. Bandits batters put on a show for the ages, scoring 30 runs.
Gordon Thornton goes 4-for-5 with two home runs and five RBIs.
Eric Ware goes 4-for-7 with a home run, a double, and six RBIs.
Tom Becker hits two home runs and drives in six. The Bandits do all this without help from All-Star catcher
Tim Shields, who has the day off, and in only eight innings of at-bats!
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| Tom Beker |
Montreal scores most of their runs in just two innings. In the fourth, aided by some poor Bomber defense, they score nine. Eight of those are with two outs. The inning proceeds: walk, error (dropped pop-up), single, double-play (run #1), single (2), error (dropped fly ball), single (3), single (4), home-run (Becker, 5-7), walk, home run (Ware, 8-9), single, single, fly out.
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| Eric Ware |
But the eighth inning is when the real damage is done. The Bandits, already leading 17-5, send 17 men to the plate and score 13 runs! This time, it's the Bombers' wild pitching that helps, as they walk in three runs. The inning proceeds: home run (
Gene O'Reilly, 1), walk, walk, single, walk (2), walk (3), single (4), walk (5), double (6-7), sac fly (8), strike out, walk, single (9), hit-batsman, double (10-11), single (12-13). Poor
Bob Robinson, South Carolina's closer: he comes into the game with a 0.96 ERA, but he gives up nine runs this inning and leaves the game with a 5.03 ERA.
June 15: Las Vegas 5, So Cal 6. Batman saves the day! The Republic, down 5-2, rally for three runs in the seventh, with
Alfredo Yánez scoring the tying run on a
Bob Osborn single. Yánez then wins the game in the bottom of the ninth with a walk-off solo home run.
June 15: Jacksonville 7, Nottinghamshire 1. The Jacks explode for six late runs.
Corbin Butler hits a two-run home in the eighth, and
Iván Ortíz puts the game out of reach with a ninth-inning grand slam.
June 15: San Francisco 3, San Diego 10. Dorian Knight hits a three-run homer and
Steve Cherry hits a grand slam as the Hops crush the Quakes.
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| Manuel Ruíz |
June 15: Mile High 4, Seattle 0. Manuel Ruíz (9-6) pitches one of the most dominant performances of the year, silencing the league's best offense. Iron Manuel allows one walk and two single, while striking out eight.
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Armando
Rodríguez |
June 16: Kansas City 11, Carolina 6. Tornado second-sacker
Armando Rodríguez goes 3-for-4 with two walks, a double, a triple, and a two-run homer. He scores three runs and drives in three runs. After spending 2012 on the DL, Kansas City's first-round draft pick is having an outstanding 2013: Rodríguez is batting .311 with 14 home runs, all while playing tremendous defense.
June 16: Georgia 4, New York 5. In a battle of team aces,
Evan Warner out-duels
Javier Flores for eight innings: Warner strikes out eight and holds the Mafia to one run over eight innings. The Mafia pen then surrenders a pair of runs, giving the Ghost Busters a 4-1 lead going into the bottom of the ninth. But Georgia's fearsome pen can't hold the lead. New York rallies to score three:
Earl Cook singles in
Holden Adams for the tying run. Adams then scores the winning run when, in the 11th,
Ashton Finley doubles him home.
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| Byron Bryant |
June 16: Jacksonville 2, Nottinghamshire 4. Byron Bryant, the Outlaws' 20-year old rookie, hits a solo home run in the fourth, then wins the game in the 11th with a walk-off two-run homer.
June 16: Cabo San Lucas 4, Ann Arbor 5. Cabo catcher
Carlos Martínez crushes a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth, tying the game, 4-4. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Barn Owl
Stu Barns burns a single to left that scores spark plug
Ki-Moon Pak for the walk-off win.
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| Maurice Gould |
June 16: Las Vegas 2, So Cal 0. Maurice Gould (11-1) shuts out the Republic. Pedro López (8-5) matches him for six innings, but he gets pulled in the seventh after allowing a leadoff single. Reliever
Pedro Pacheco then fields an easy tapper back to the mound and throws it past first-baseman Pete McCormick. Both runners eventually score, and both runs are unearned. Gould, meanwhile, cruises, striking out seven while surrendering just three hits.
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| Dave Nicholson |
July 17: South Carolina 2, Mile High 1. Dave Nicholson (3-1) keeps up his incredible pitching, this time allowing one run over seven innings. He allows just two hits, walks none, and strikes out 10. In his seven games this season, Nicholson has a 0.80 ERA. Recently acquired
Francisco Alfonzo hits his first home run for the Bombers.
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| Bob Rudyard |
July 17: San Franciso 0, Las Vegas 1. Bob Rudyard, acquired via trade in the off-season, had been expected to team up with Maurice Gould to form a feared 1-2 punch at the top of the Joker rotation, but a hamstring injury put him on the DL before he had even pitched a game for his new team. Today, in his second game back from injury, Rudyard (2-0) pitches seven shutout innings, allowing four hits and no walks.
Bob Reece's second-inning solo home run is the only run of the game.
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| Paul Durden |
July 18: South Carolina 1, Mile High 9. Paul Durden (4-2), the Mustangs' 20-year-old rookie, faces off against
Ed Bell, the bombers' 39-year-old vet. Bell gets his bell rung, while Durden pitches a complete game. Durden allows only four hits and one run—a home run to
Gunner Smart—while walking none and striking out six.
Roberto Mendoza hits a three-run homer for the Mustangs.
June 18: San Diego 4, Nottinghamshire 19. Outlaw bats hammer Hop arms for 22 hits and 19 runs.
Byron Bryant hits a two-run homer and drives in four.
Danny Burris goes 4-for-5 with two doubles and four runs scored.
June 18: Georgia 3, Maple 4. Tommy McCauley hits a solo home run in the eighth that ties the game, 3-3. The bullpens take over, and the relievers post goose-eggs on the scoreboard for eight more inning. Mercifully, in the bottom of the 17th,
Greg Hammond, in his ninth at-bat of the evening, singles in
Anthony Lewis to win the game.
June 19: Montgomery 9, Minnesota 6. The Berserkers take the lead, 6-5, in the seventh:
Matt Smith's homer brings home two while Juan Carlos Carrillo's tacks on another. The Cats tie it in the eighth when
Chris Collins singles in
Ryan Taylor. In the 10th,
Eric Williams ends it with a three-run home run. After seemingly recovering their winning ways in May, when they went 19-9, the Berserkers fall to 6-12 in June.
June 19: San Francico 12, Las Vegas 8. The Jokers sprint to an early lead, 8-2, as
José Ortíz and
Troy Tracy homer, but pitching has been a weak spot for Las Vegas this season. The Quakes fight back and seize the lead in the seventh when
John Ross hits a two-run homer.
June 19: San Diego 0, Nottinghamshire 4. Juan Fernández (6-6) strikes out nine and shuts out the Hops for 7 1/3 innings.
Jim Crawford hits a three-run homer, and rookie
Byron Bryant hits a solo shot.
June 20: Jacksonville 2, Jersey 4. Jon Andrews (8-4) pitches seven shutout innings before allowing two runs in the eighth.
Patrick Goff hits his 14th home run of the season, and the Jesters win their sixth straight.
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| Michael Brown |
June 21: Eureka 6, Maple 5. Hornet
Michael Brown goes 4-for-5. He hits a solo home run in the sixth, then, in the eighth, he ties the game by singling in
Mike Bergeron. In the tenth, he wins the game by singling in
Andrew Padgett.
June 21: Mile High 2, Boston 3. José González singles in
Abel Baker to tie the game in the eight. Baker then scores the winning run in the 10th when, with the bases loaded, pitcher
Barry Johnson fumbles an infield roller.
June 21: Washington 4, Nottinghamshire 5. Jim Crawford hits his league-leading eighth triple of the season, and
Leslie Whitney singles him in, tying the game, 4-4, in the bottom of the ninth. In the tenth, rookie
Byron Bryant hits another walk-off solo home run.
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| Dane Moore |
June 21: Seattle 19, San Diego 7. Dane Moore and
Edgar Johnson lead off the game with back-to-back home runs. In the second, the Sasquatch score eight runs, with Moore hitting a two-run triple. In the fourth, Moore doubles, then scores on Johnson's three-run homer. In the fifth, Moore singles, completing the second cycle in ABL history!
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| Rich Bussell |
June 21: Carolina 2, Dallas 6. Rich Bussell (5-3) pitches a complete game, striking out 11 and facing only 30 batters: he allows a single and a home run, and he hits a batter with a pitch.
June 22: San Francisco 15, Georgia 4. An hour-long rain delay interrupts the game and takes Ghost Buster ace
Evan Warner (6-7) out of the game by the fourth inning. The Quakes unload on the Georgia bullpen.
Tom Klein hits two home runs, and
Doctor Watson caps an eight-run eighth inning with a grand slam.
June 22: So Cal 8, Montreal 10. The Bandits tie the game in the bottom of the ninth when pinch-hitter
Gene O'Reilly singles in
Eric Ware. In the bottom of the 10th,
Emílio Guerrero hits a 412-foot home run to dead center field for the walk-off win.
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| José Ramírez |
June 22: Kansas City 11, Jersey 1. José Ramírez (6-5) was in tip-top form today, ceding just one run over eight innings of work. Ramírez controls both of his changeups and allows just two hits while striking out nine. Speedster
Lawrence Fox hits his first home run of the season: he also doubles and drives in four.
June 22: Carolina 1, Dallas 0. Todd Blanchard (9-5) and
Tom Owens (4-7) hook up in a tense pitchers' duel, keeping the game scoreless through seven innings. In the eighth,
Justin Wallace reaches first on a fielder's choice. He steals his 20th base of the year, then comes around to score when
Scott Andrews grounds a single through the right side of the infield.
June 23: Mile High 5, Boston 0. Paul Durden (5-2) pitches another beauty of a game. This time he shuts out the Cardinals on the road. The rookie gives up just five hits and one walk while striking out three.
Eric Black hits a three-run homer.
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| Luis Rocha |
June 23: Washington 6, Nottinghamshire 5. Luis Rocha hit 31 home runs for Greenville last year, but this year with Washington has been a struggle. Today, however, he comes up big. In the seventh, with the Outlaws ahead, 3-2, Rocha hits a grand slam.
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