[IBL] SKY Sweeps SEA 4-0 Somehow !!!!

[Danny Woosley]

As anticipated when the playoffs started the Juggernaut SEA faces SKY
in the NCCS.  First of all I want to thank Matt for fun games and a
fantastic season.  His team is extremely dangerous and was worried
about this series as I was with CAN(Joel) who had a great team too.

I felt like i got lucky and rollbot did not help SEA at all in this
series.  Just like the CAN Series, play here and play there and this
series could be totally different.  AGAIN GREAT SEASON MATT AND
CONGRATS.

Game 1 features Cortez vs Rodon (battle of the lefties)

-Sky threaten in the 1st but leave Rodriguez at 3rd but pasqantino k
and Riley flies out to cf. Sea Threaten in Second with 2 walks  but
Cortes K Kiermaier to end threat.
-Sky scores 2 in 3rd.  torres singles, then swaps 2nd.  wp pitch moves
him to 3rd, kim 2b lfl to score torres, Haggerty move kim to third on
ground out, Rodriguez K as usual, then pasquantino walks, Riley
singles home kim.  SKY 2-0.
-SEA Threaten 4th with leadoff single by machado, walk of Santana but
Thompson Flies out  and Raleigh hit the killer dp to end inning.
SKY Score 1 in the 5th, kim singles and swaps 2nd, haggerty doubles to
score kim.
- 6th inning SKY scores again with a 2 run bomb by renfroe and then
add 2 more in 8th. to make it 7-0 final sky

Game 2 Features SD Snell vs Ari Gallen

Both pitchers are on fire.
Gallen goes 5.2 0 runs 4 hits 9K
Snell goes 6.0  0 runs, 3 hits 8K

so now a relievers game
SEA Bautista strikes out first 2 batters, but gets wild walks both
rodriguez and pasquantino, then Riley breaks the 0-0 tie with a 3 run
HR to lf.  to make it 3-0,  in the 8th Estevez come in ground out
single to torres, flyout by kim, haggerty hits a 2 run hr to give SKY
some cushon.

SEA scores in the 9th off of Phillips , pederson doubles to rcf
thompson Singles pederson home, then strikes out LeBlanc and raleigh
grounds out to end game

Sky wins 5-1, and take both games in California.

Day off and fly across the country to Kentucky, where SEA hopes it
offense wakes up, via Manager Matt.

Game 3 features Rodon vs Javier

SEA get 2 on in first via walk but thompson K to end threat, SKY bats
come to life after 2 outs in 1st scoring 4.  Rodon get frustrated with
catcher after a walk and sb, and error on Herrera (who is in to stop
Sky running game)  After error, Riley hit a 2 run hr to score
rodriguez, suarez singles, d'Arnaud draws a walk.  Rodon has wp to
move both runner up, then renfroe single to score both suarez and
d'Arnaud.  then another error by SEA and Rodon day is done.  Darvish
comes in and hits Kim (not sure if not on purpose) then Haggerty
grounds out.
-After 1 sky 4 SEA 0
- SEA threaten in 4th, machado walks but pederson hits in to a double
play, thompson singles, Brown reaches on Error, but Kiermaier fly out
of center to end inning.
-SKY adds 1 in 4th with HR by Rodriguez.
-Dominguez comes in the 8th after Barlow in 7th goes 123, and SEA
threaten again dominguez get first 2 out but gives up single to Kwan
and McNeal, but Diaz comes in to strike out 4 batters in a row to end
game.

SKY Wins 5-0

Game 4 Castillo vs Cortez

SEA comes out with a hr by Machado to lead 1-0, but SKY answers with a
run in the bottom half, Brantley singles, pasquantino singles, riley
walks (understandable after games 2 and 3)  but kirk get rbi on ground
out to ss.  suarez walks but renfroe K to end inning at 1-1.

3rd SEA strikes again, single by Kwan, Kiermaier K but kwan swaps 2nd,
Farmer get a big hit to score Kwan.  to make it 2-1 after 2.5.

Sky threaten a couple of times, but Castillo is on target.  goes 6.1
innings  1 run 4 hits and 9 K 4 bb 2 hb
SEA brings in their stud Bautista to keep SKY at bay, get jrod to
ground into a dp and pasquantion to fly out to center.

SKY get 2 in 8th, Bautista pitches around Riley, K kirk, but Suarez
hits a 2 Run HR to make it 3-2, renfroe K again and Sky leads 3-2
going into 9th.

top 9th, crowd going nuts chanting sweep sweep sweep.
Herrera singles to start the 9th and hushes the crowd, Kwan K on a
long ab, then SEA bring in Bash STanton to try to take the lead, SKY
counter with Save leader for 23 Diaz.  Diaz K both Stanton and
Laureano to end game.  Diaz pitches 2 inning in last 2 game with 6 K.