Indian and Mustang Comebacks the Story on this Day!

Posted June 5, 2016


Indian and Mustang Comebacks the Story on this Day!

Game 1 Tri City Indians 2   Cowichan Valley Mustangs 4  (Game played under Protest)
It was a pitchers duel between the Indians Stanyer and the Mustangs Ramwell.  Both starting pitchers were dealing.  After going down 1,2,3, in each of the first 3 innings the Tribe finally got a base runner in the 4th when Sugi led off with a single.  Wilson laid down a perfect bunt for a hit and the Indians had runners on 1st and 2nd with none out.  Sugi and Wilson executed a double steal and Columbus scored Sugi on a sac fly and Stanyer finished the job when he singled up the middle to score Wilson.  The Indians now led 2 - 0.

The Mustangs tied the game up without recording a hit in the bottom of the 6th as the Indians defence made a couple of costly miscues.  The leadoff batter worked a 7 pitch walk off of Stanyer.  On the ensuing sac bunt the Indians fumbled the ball on the play, another sac bunt, a base stolen home on a pass ball, and a sac fly, was all the Mustangs needed to get the game squared at two. 

The Indians fought back when Cao walked in the 7th.  Sugi moved him over to 2nd with a sac bunt, but the next two Indian batters were unable to move him the additional 160 feet.  In the bottom of the 7th Stanyer retired the first two batters.  Then walked the eight batter on 4 straight pitches.  The next pitch the game was over as the Cowichan 9 batter powered the ball out of the park and the stunned Indians watched a game where they outhit the Mustangs 5 - 3 and a game where they were leading 2 - 0 going into the 6th inning slip away. 


Game 2 Tri City Indians 11   Cowichan Valley Mustangs 9
If the first game was a pitchers duel this one was far from it.  The Mustangs came out looking to run the Indians out of town knocking Cao out of the game after just 4 batters, scoring 4 runs in the first inning on 5 hits 2 walks while sending 10 batters to the plate in the first inning.  The Indians got two back in the bottom of the inning when Stanyer knocked in Sugi (single) and Wilson (HBP) to close the gap to 2 runs at the end of the 1st inning. 

Yee coming in for Cao got out of the first inning and kept the Mustangs scoreless in the 2nd, but the Mustang attack was relentless bashing out another 3 hits en route to putting up 3 more runs to go up 7 - 2.  The Indians were unable to answer in their half and the Mustangs added another single in the top of the 4th to extend their lead to 8 - 2 after 4 complete innings.

The Indians who had managed 4 runs in 10 innings up to this point against the 2nd stingiest defensive team in the league could have folded, but this team has not made excuses all year so the choice was to sag and get your butts kicked or fight back.  The first 3 batters Rae, Yee, and Seward, led off the inning with hits.  Watt reached on error, followed up with hits from Blight, Sugi, and Wilson, before Stanyer finished it off with the 7th hit of the inning when he doubled to score Sugi and Wilson.  The result was 7 runs and a 9 - 8 lead for the Tribe after 4 innings.  

As all good teams do the Mustangs tied it up in the top of the 6th playing text book baseball after one out they worked a walk, a sac bunt moving the runner to 2nd and then a single up the middle to score the tying run and knot the game up at 9.

The Indians as they have been doing all day fought back riding the hot bat of Sugi who singled to start the inning.  Wilson reached base on an error, Sugi scored the winning run on a passed ball and with 2 out Rae came to the plate and promptly fell behind 0 - 2 on the first 2 pitches. Rae fouled off 4 straight pitches to stay alive, took a ball and then drilled the next pitch to deep left field to score Wilson and give the Indians an insurance run and a 11 - 9 lead.  Seward came in the last inning and retired the side 1,2,3.

It was a great game for the Indians who never lost the faith,  even though some of the Mustang parents thought their team crapped the bed, anyone that was watching the game without rose colored glasses on would have seen that the Indians win was well deserved as the boys battled back from a 6 run deficit with 7 different players punching out 12 hits in the process.  Kudos to the boys and full credit to them.  No one crapped the bed.  Both teams played hard the Indians were just better in this one!  

   



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