ISF's Day 2 - Game 16 - Puerto Rico at Australia

July 18, 2009

Nice talking to some of the Team Canada guys after their game to hear they were following our coverage of the USA vs NZ game last night at the hotel with their blackberrys.

Game 16

Puerto Rico at Australia

T1
Kirkpatrick throwing for AU

No runs, no hits, no errors, no one left on

B1
Mike Tanner, single to deep cf
Winters sends one towards the beer tent, two run home run - AU lead 2-0
missed a run, too many interuptions, sorry

T2
30, Arroyo, strikes out
19, Borrero, out

2-0 for AU

B2
Kirkpatrick, singles - they bobbled the ball and he may have made it to 2b but not worth the risk
they tried to tag him even though he never made the turn to second, now the coach is trying to make an arguement that he was tagged out. not going to happen
Davison singled but makes it to second, and Kirkpatrick is on third
Wells, strikes out
14, Jones, beautiful bunt, Kirkpatrick scores and Jones on first
Harrow, in the park home run. hit it to rf fence, bounced off, fielder chased it, threw home and Harrow slid by the catcher.
AU are leading 6-0
Zenon Winters, right over the 250' marker, solo home run to make it 7-0
Jeff Goolagong,

pitching change, Vega is out, Roman is in to pitch

Goolagong, strikes out, but a big inning for the Steelers

9:28pm

T3

 for AU, 14 Jones is out, 8, Bartorillo is in

25, Felix Cruz, hit one hard to deep cf fence and caught, out.
13, Eduardo Lebron, goes down swinging
23, Jose Molina, hits it to first and he is out.
9:33pm

AU lead 7-0

B3
Nick Norton, out at first
Andrew Kirkpatrick, walks
Davison, out
no runs, no hits, no errors

7-0 for Australia

9:40pm

T4
Gonzalez, walks
4, out
28, Santiago, out
30, Arroyo, strikes out
9:49pm

7-0 for AU

B4
32, new pitcher, Carlos Lara

42. Wells, walks
8, Bartorillo, out at 1b
25, Mike Tanner, walks
3, Gibson, - Tanner steals second, wells is on 3b; Gibson with one out, walks
53, Winters, with bases loaded and only one out, singles, drives in one run, the ss bobbled the ball
27, Goolagong, - pitcher is really struggling to keep ball in strike zone, walks in another run.  they really need help
26, Nick Norton, bases loaded, most of the pitches are arond the ankles, blooper to first, picked off by 2nd baseman, out, but runner scores and two runners move up
Kirkpatrick, runners on 2 and 3 with  2 out. throwing at Andrews ankles may lead to a golf shot, goes down swinging to end the inning.
10:03pm
10-0 for AU

T5
19, Borerro, goes down on a big swing
25, Cruiz, hits one right to the fence and rf has it, out
24, Barbosa, strikes him out to end the game
10:10pm

10 - 0 for Australia over Puerto Rico


Kirkpatrick threw a no hitter in this five inning  mercy game.