Palms 10, Athletics 7

The Palms finally had a decent pitching outing, but the work the relief has endured in their 4 game set against Oakland was evident. Tim Byrdak came in the 7th when Lucas Harrell ran into some problems, and allowed 2 inherited runners to score. He then allowed the A's to score their 7th run in the 8th inning, but despite his struggles, there was nobody fresh enough to take Byrdak's spot in the 9th. The A's 'pen had problems of their own. Billy Dupont tied the game again at 6 with a mammoth upper deck homer off of Ryan Cook. In the bottom of the 9th, Steve Drysdale broke the 7-7 tie by hitting a home run of his own. Grant Balfour started the inning with a 1 run lead, but was unable to retire a batter as the Palms walked off winners of a series split.

 Miami Palms 10, Oakland Athletics 7
 Sunday, April 28, 2013


 Oakland Athletics (2-2)                                  Miami Palms (12-11)                                    
 Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave     
 ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---     
 Wells cf        5  2  2  0  1  0  2  0  0  3   .556      Crisp cf        5  3  3  1  0  0  6  0  0  1   .268
 Jaso c          5  1  1  0  0  0  7  0  0  0   .125      Prado 3b        5  1  2  1  0  1  0  2  0  0   .329
 Smith dh        2  1  1  1  3  1  0  0  0  0   .500      Drysdale dh     4  2  3  4  0  0  0  0  0  0   .310
 Cespedes lf     4  1  1  2  0  1  2  0  0  0   .389      Dupont 1b       4  1  1  2  0  0  6  0  0  1   .341
 Moss 1b         4  0  1  1  1  2  5  0  0  4   .357      Markakis rf     4  0  0  0  0  2  1  0  0  1   .247
 Donaldson 3b    4  1  1  2  1  0  1  1  0  2   .333      Johnson 2b      4  1  2  0  0  1  2  1  0  0   .272
 Young rf        5  0  2  1  0  0  4  0  0  0   .450      Abreu ss        4  1  2  2  0  2  3  3  0  0   .269
 Sogard 2b       4  0  0  0  1  0  1  2  0  0   .167      Blanco lf       4  0  1  0  0  0  3  0  0  1   .133
 Rosales ss      5  1  2  0  0  1  1  1  0  3   .200      Hayes c         4  1  1  0  0  1  5  0  0  1   .138

                 -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---                            -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---           
 Totals          38 7  11 7  7  5  24 6  0  12            Totals          38 10 15 10 0  7  27 7  0  5 


                           1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9      R  H  E
                           -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -      -  -  -
 Oakland Athletics         0  0  2  0  0  1  3  1  0      7  11 0 
 Miami Palms               1  0  1  2  0  0  2  0  4      10 15 0 



 LOB- Oakland Athletics 12, Miami Palms 5; 2B- Young(1), Smith(3), Johnson(4), Crisp(5),
 Blanco(2); 3B- Wells(1), Cespedes(2), Abreu(1); HR- Donaldson(3), Dupont(5), Crisp(3),
 Drysdale(7), Abreu(2); RBI- Young(5), Donaldson 2(5), Smith(5), Cespedes 2(5),
 Moss(7), Dupont 2(17), Prado(6), Crisp(6), Drysdale 4(23), Abreu 2(5); SF- Drysdale(1);
 RLSP- Donaldson, Rosales 2, Wells 2, Moss 2, Crisp, Blanco, Markakis; 

 
 


 Oakland Athletics            IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Colon                        6.0  9  4  4  0  4    6.00 
 Cook(BS,1)                   1.0  2  2  2  0  1   18.00
 Doolittle(H,1)               1.0  0  0  0  0  2    0.00 
 Balfour(L 0-1)(BS,1)         0.0  4  4  4  0  0    0.00 

 Miami Palms                  IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Harrell                      6.1  7  6  6  5  5    4.45 
 Byrdak(W 2-0)                2.2  4  1  1  2  0    1.65 

 Inherited runners-scored- Byrdak 3-2; Pitches-strikes- Colon 75-54, Cook 11-8,
 Doolittle 11-8, Balfour 5-5, Harrell 112-67, Byrdak 32-15; Batters faced- Colon 27,
 Cook 5, Doolittle 3, Balfour 4, Harrell 32, Byrdak 14;

 HBP- Cespedes(by Harrell); 

Player of the Game: Steve Drysdale

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