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Posted Jul 21/14 - rockets take all 4 games, comeback style in 3

July 21, 2014 rockets complete weekend sweep

 

Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. I cant believe what I just saw, to quote broadcaster jack buck. Portland rockets, the cardiac kids, win all games this weekend, the last 3 in walk off fashion in their last at at bat.  A walk off is when a player drives in the run that ends the game for his team.  . geoff bowers, alex delk and Dalton tinsley provided the walk off heroics. I have never seen anything like it –each of those thrillers were come from behind victories. Wow.

Saturday vs northeast kekionga rockets behind the complete game effort by tyler Reynolds, 122 pitches, rockets win 5-1. game 2 the funky walk off stuff begins.

The Indiana tech team jumped to an 8 0 lead on just 2 hits, and rockets start bursting in air.  3 run home run by mitch waters, then  a clutch 3 run bomb over the fence by connor milligan, and the rockets make the big comeback. Great to see heath Williams make a return to the lineup.  Heath played all day  after a 3 year layoff and had hits in both games.  Rockets down then 10- 8 in the last inning used a Williams bunt with 4 hits by his teammates to set up bowers walk off. Rockets win when down 8 0 win 11-10.

Special thanks for the weekend at the ball park with Samantha Thomas.  She was in the publicity dept for the ft wayne tincaps, she ran our press box and we loved it.

Good baseball and good karma Sunday.  My uncle ron miller made the trip down from Warsaw, and stayed the day.  He claims the coach is a slacker and overpaid. Ray millers younger brother game me my umpire gear about 40 years ago.\

 Portland rockets finished the regular season at runkle-miller field Sunday with a doubleheader sweep over the ft. wayne expos. Rockets won 2-1 in 9 inn. And 5-4. 

Veteran righthander mitch waters surrendered one run in the 9th but rockets came back and won anyway, walk off  alex delk come from behind win again

Waters went the distance , 5 hits and 95 pitches 0 walks.

Justin Marrero returns to the lineup and scores the tying run, on waters single, bowers scores on delks single.

Game 2 rockets have but 1 hit going into the last inn,. Trailing 4-0 and here comes that rockettrain, scratching, clawing digging, with 2 outs Dalton tinsley singles in billy geeslin, who had doubled with the bases loaded to set the stage,,,man, I thought billy had won the game w a granny but tinsley walk off closed the deal.

Tinsley had 10 hits this weekend, bowers 7 waters 5

Good karma, a little luck,\

I say just good players making plays,

Rockets record now 23-10.

Portland will play Thursday at Carrington field. 7 pm start vs ft. wayne marlins 9 inn. Game

We say good bye to good friend Gerald kunce who graded the original park

Happy birthday dick huffmman

Certainly news worthy , rockets win x 4, and 3 are walk offs.

I will never forget this weekend for as long as I live

 





 


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