Connie Mack World Series Game 4

Game 4 - Saturday, August 4, 2007

Visitor : Llaneros 21, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

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Game 4

Visitor : Llaneros 21

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Game Summary:

1st Inning:
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Bottom:  Shortstop Nelson Espinal hustles to a ground ball close to second base in time to get the out at first.  Both pitchers cruised throught the first inning.

2nd Inning:  Juan Rodriguez singled to center field for the first hit of the game.  Kellar hit a high chopper to second baseman Josh Choate who flipped the ball to short stop Wes Starks, who made the throw to the first baseman Nick Fleece for the double play.  Eduardo Montesino reached first on an error by Choate at second.  Orta hit a groundball to short stop Starks who flipped it to second for the last out.
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Carlos Hernandez walked the leadoff Nick Fleece.  A balk sent Fleece to second.  Marvel grounded out to third baseman Acosta for the first out and did not advance Fleece to third.  Josh Wilson struck out swinging for out number two.  Chris Tate flew out to left center leaving one man on to end the second inning.

3rd Inning: 
Top:  Bettis strikes out Acosta for the first out.  Hector Morales hit a high chopper to Bettis that he jumped for to make the throw to first for the second out.  Bettis walked Hector Ponce with two outs.  Bettis hit Juan Martinez square in the back to put runners on first and second.  Nelson Espinal hit a hot ground ball to right field, while Hector Ponce tried to score from second, but the right fielder Josh Wilson threw a bullet to the catcher Cameron Rupp, who tagged Ponce out at home to keep the game scoreless going into the bottom of the inning. 
    
Bottom: Wes Starks hits a lazy chopper to the pitcher Carlos Hernandez who threw him out at first for out number one.  Josh Choate hit a grounder up the middle for a single.  Chris Slater went down swinging for the second out.  Hernandez  walked Joe Leftridge to put runners on first and second.  Rupp grounde out to shortstop Nelson Espinal who flipped it to second for the third out.


4th Inning:
Top:  Juan Rodriguez struck out swinging for the first out.  Kellar hit a single up the middle that short stop Wes Starks who couldn't make the throw to first.  Bettis walked Eduardo Montesino to put runners on first and second.  Jonathan Orta flew out to center fielder Leftridge for the second out and didn't advance the runners.  Axel Santiago came up to hit in place of Braulio Acosta.  Bettis struck out Axel Santiago stranding two on base and ending the top of the fourth.  

Bottom: Fleece flew out to the right fielder Hector Morales for the first out.  Lance Marvel grounded to the third baseman Montesino who made a miraculous play to throw him out at first.  Josh Wilson flew out to the left fielder Axel Santiago for the final out.


5th Inning:
Top: Rupp dropped the third strike to Hector Morales but threw him out at first, for the first out.  Hector Ponce flew out to the center fielder Leftridge for the second out.  Juan Martinez hit a slow roller to the short stop Starks who threw him out for the final out.





Bottom: Tate struck out for the first out.  Starks grounded out to the second baseman Espinal for the second out.  Josh Choate walked to first with two outs.  Slater hit a grounder to Juan Martinez who booted the ball for an error, and put runners on first and second.  Leftridge hit a double off the wall that scored Choate, and put runners on third and second.  Carlos Hernandez walked the catcher Rupp to load the bases with two outs.  Axel Rodriguez came in to Pitch with bases loaded replacing starting pitcher Carlos Hernandez.  Axel Rodriguez threw a wild pitch scoring Slater to make the score 2-0 D-BAT.  Rodriguez walked Fleece to load the bases again.  Luis Rivera came in to pitch for Rodriguez after he walked Fleece.  Lance Marvel hit a single up the middle to score two and put runners on the corners bringing the score to 4-0.  Josh Wilson hit a single between short and third to score one and put runners on first and second.  The score is now 5-0.  Jovet Sanchez is now in to pitch, replacing Luis Rivera.  Sanchez struck out Tate to end the 5th inning, stranding two on base, and scoring 5.


6th Inning: 
Top: Nelson Espinal grounded out to the second baseman Josh Choate for the first out.  Juan Rodriguez grounded out to short stop Wes starks for out number two.  Kellar grounded out to Josh Choate to end the inning.

Bottom:  Starks walked to start off the inning.  Choate flew out to the first baseman Kellar.  Starks stole second base.  Chris Slater walked to put runners on first and second.  Abel Robles is replacing Sanchez as the pitcher after the last walk.  Robles balked to advance the runners to third and second.  Leftridge hit a grouder past the first baseman to score two more runs on a single.  The score is now 7-0 D-BAT.  Leftridge stole second on a throwing error from the catcher and advanced to third.  Rupp hit a single down the right field line to score Leftridge.  The D-BAT won the game on the mercy rule to win 8-0.

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