Home teams won every game, except 1 - and they almost won, but ran into a one-man wrecking crew...
Highlight of the Night:
Rattlers beat the Cache Hogs 6-5. Neither SP must have gotten enough warm-up pitches before the game or something as the bats were hot to start the game (4-4 heading into the bottom of the 2nd). The settled down from there but the major story line was Nolan Arenado. Arenado went 3-5 with 5 RBI and 3 HR. This gives him 5 HR and 10 RBI already in the postseason. Rattlers up 2-1 in the series.
Honorable Mention:
If you would have told me prior to the start of the playoffs that Kershaw would lose G1, I would have put money on my Dogs being down 3-0 or at least 2-1 to the Landlubbers at this point. But after Fernandez pitched into the 8th allowing only 4 hits while striking out 10, I'm up 2-1. I'll take that :)
Dogs win 6-0 by the way...
Honorable Mention 2:
Both the Asterisks and Sweets must like home cooking as they avoid any potential opening round sweeps with wins in front of the home crowds.
Asterisks win 7-1 over the Kraken
Sweets win 6-2 over the Cutthroats
Dogs may avoid Jansen and Melancon for the entire series. I've only had 4 pitchers make it to the mound in these three games.
That would be ideal, but they pitched tonight. It wasn't pretty. Sheesh those guys are good at the end of your bullpen...