<div><div dir="auto">This was excellent, but who has beer left in the 12th? 😉</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:47 PM Doug Palmer <<a href="mailto:aeronutty43@gmail.com">aeronutty43@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">NYK selected to play the Cardiac Crabs instead of the wildcard winners, SNH. So Baltimore travelled deep into Knight country to play the first two games.<div><br></div><div>Everything that they say about NYK is true. Great hitters, great starters and relievers who are out of this world. And G1 demonstrated that. Verlander starts for NYK vs Freeland for BAL. It ain't even close. Freeland gets shelled early, fatigues by the 4th, and it's over before it began. The final was 10-1 but it wasn't even THAT close. NYK faithful stormed the local hardware stores, buying brooms.</div><div><br></div><div>Game 2 was a clear, bright afternoon. Buehler took the mound for NYK while Happ started for BAL. Buehler's card is even scarier than Verlanders!!! Something strange happened though.....BAL decided to bring their bats. Well, some of them. A 2-run shot by Guzman and a solo shot by Pillar and it's 3-0 Crabs. Fans were baffled. A strange hush fell over the 45,000+ in the stands. Then NYK remembered that they're NYK. 2 runs in the 3rd, another pair in the 5th and it's now 4-3 Knights. The fans are used to this and begin the "na na, hey hey chant". But these ARE the Cardiac Crabs and sometimes....magic can happen. MIL Hader comes in to pitch (an UGLY card) and suddenly an error at 1st and the Crabs have a baserunner. Then Manny lines a shot into the corner and has a stand up triple. It's tied! Crabs tied it! Knights tried in the 7th, but a double play nixed that. Same in the 9th, a key DP and it's tied after the 9th. Bonus baseball in the playoffs. The Knights never go 1-2-3 but they never get a run across. And then the strangest thing happens. Knights get a Park roll...now look at that park (Coors). There are only 6 outs on the card. SIX. And somehow NYK rolls one of those six!!! It's still tied!!!! We go to the 12th and rather than PH for CHA Castillo, I let him hit. And I'm rewarded with a solo shot into the cheap seats. Crabs LEAD! Fans choke on their cokes and beers. Small children cry. Grown men curse the skies. Women faint. Crabs lead!? Bottom of the 12th and after the first two batters are retired.....the cheese gets binding. A Coors single (line outs are singles at coors) and a walk put runners at 1st and 2nd with 2 outs. And the closer for the Crabs (Brasier) is fatigued. The ONLY reliever left in the pen is HOU Sipp. Need the lefty to come through........and on a 2-2 pitch, Grandal swings and misses and the Crabs.....the Cardiac Crabs......steal a game vs NYK. Heading home, still very much underdogs, the Crabs remind the IBL world why they're called Cardiac.</div><div><br></div><div>NYK 1 win</div><div>BAL 1 win</div><div><br></div><div>Games 3 and 4 tomorrow. Stay tuned for more IBL post season excitement.</div></div>
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