International Internet Baseball League – IIBL

Game 1 was a nail biter, both Sabathia and Haren left after 7 innings with the score tied 2-2. In the bottom of the 10th Chris Johnson hit a walkoff Hr of Evan Meek. Paplebon was the winner.

Ubaldo Jimenez went 8 shutout innings, yielding only 3 hits and the Cardinals hit 4 solo homers – two by Choo and one by Vlad and one by Branyan to knot the series up at 1 game a piece.

Neither starter pitched effectively but Lilly left with a 6-5 lead in the fifth. 6 relievers combined for 3 2/3 shutout IP to make the final 6-5. Scottsdale.  Victorino’s 2 run HR in the 6th was the game winner.

Dan Haren, ptiching on three days rest, threw 8 shutout innings and Branyan hit his second HR of the series. Kissimmee knotted up the series 2-2 with their second shutout of Scottsdale.

Two homers by Matsui and another by Holliday paved the way for a 4-1 Scottsdale win as Sabathia got the victory.

Jimenez did not repeat his excellent outing from game 2 as the Cougars got to him for 6 runs behind Chris Johnson’s 2nd HR of the series and Russ Branyan’s third.  Ervin Santana got the victory as Scottsdale won 6-3 and eliminated Kissimmee.

Both teams kept the score low.

Maui takes game 1 – 2 to 1 in 11 innings.

Maui takes game 2 – scoring 4 in the bottom of the 9th to win 6-3 – probably the key point in the series.

Maui takes game 3 – 3 to 1 behind a nice outing by Guthrie.

Maui takes game 4 – 3 to 1 on a Crawford 3 run homer in the 4th.

Overall, the series was extremely low scoring.  Hard to pick an MVP as no one had more than 3 RBI’s.  Maui batted .213 and Bellingham batted .151.

MVP was Beltre who batted .438 with 3 RBI’s and had 7 of Maui’s 29 hits.

Team pitching saw Bellingham have a team ERA of 1.96 and Maui with 1.18.

Game 1  – Duensing (Nas) vs Verlander (Cam)  Kelly Johnson lead off the top of the second with a homer to give Nashua a one run lead. In the bottom of the 4th a walk, a single, an error and an infield hit gave Cambridge a 2-1 lead. In the top of the 5th, with one on and one out Nashua hit for Duensing (who only had enough BF for 1 1/2 starts). Nothing came of it.  Two innings later, the wheels fell off Nashua’s bullpen as Cambridge plated 6 runs,  3 or them via a Heyward 3 run HR.  Cambrige added 2 in the bottom of the 8th.  Final score Cambridge 10 Nashua 1.   W Verlander 1-0, L Duensing 0-1  HR: Johnson 1(1), Heyward 1(1).

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