Game 2

Austin Uniforms - Portland Uniforms

Notes
Game 2 in the new stadium, and Austin pulls it off. The Roughnecks started early. The 2nd and 3rd batters, Greene and Baldelli, hit back to back homers. In the 3rd, THe same tandem scored 2 more. Greene singled, and Baldelli hit him in again. On the dlip side, Sidney Ponson was dealing. Through his 4 innings, he only gave up 2 hits. In the 5thi inning, Junior Spivey came up with Baldelli on first. Another homer off of Waechter. A rough start for a good starter. But the Trappers fought back. With Bradford in, they hit 3 doubles, and scored 3 runs. This included Ricky Bracket hitting a 2 run double. Encarnacion got out, to end the game.

Batters
AUS
Dukes 0-3
Greene 2-3 HR, 1B, 2R, 1RBI
Baldelli 2-2 2 HR, BB, 3R, 3RBI
Irons 1-3 1B
Spivey 1-3 HR, 1R, 1RBI
Munson 1-3 1B
Rolls 0-2 BB
Rodriguez 1-2 1B
Burke 0-2

POR
Bracket 2-3 1B, 2B, K, 1R, 2RBI
Burroughs 1-3 2B, 1RBI
Encarnacion 0-3 K
Pena 0-2 K
Sexson 0-2
Giles 0-2 K
Brown 0-1 BB, 1R
Berroa 1-2 2B, 1R
Simon 1-2 1B

Pitchers
AUS
Ponson- 4 IP, 0 ERA, 4 Ks, 0 ER, 0 BB W
Bradford- 1 IP, 15 ERA, 0 Ks, 3 ER, 1 BB SV

POR
Waechter- 5 IP, 6 ERA, 0 Ks, 6 ER, 2 BB L

Player of the Game- Rocco Baldelli




Virginia Uniforms - Montreal Uniforms

Notes
Game two north of the border, and the Bleus played better. Gil Meche was on the hill for Montreal. He struggled early though. In the first, Hall tripled scoring Everett, when was hit home by Byrnes. In the second, a two run double by Everett made it 4-0. After that, the Blues only gave up 1 hit. On the flip side, their offense was better. A total of 7 hits off of Looper, but only one counted. Rob Bowen homered in the 4th. They continued loading the bases, just to have Ryan Church fly out to center. Looper only had two Ks in his one run allowed complete game.

Batters
VIR
Everett 2-3 1B, 2B, 1R, 2RBI
Hall 1-3 3B, K, 1R, 1RBI
Blalock 0-3 K
Byrnes 1-3 1B, 1RBI
Bigbie 0-2
Stokes 1-2 1B
Crosby 0-1 BB, K, 1R
Holliman 0-2
Wilkerson 1-2 1R

MON
Gathright 1-2 1B, K, BB
Guzman 1-2 1B, BB
Church 1-3 1B
Aybar 0-3
Phelps 1-3 1B
Butler 0-2 BB
Bowen 2-3 HR, 1B, K, 1R, 1RBI
Ortmeier 0-2
Bergeron 1-2 1B

Pitchers
VIR
Looper- 5 IP, 1 ERA, 2 Ks, 1 ER, 3 BB W

MON
Meche- 4 IP, 5 ERA, 2 Ks, 4 ER, 1 BB L
Woods- 1 IP, 0 ERA, K Ks, 0 ER, 0 BB

Player of the Game- Adam Everett



Omaha Uniforms - Orlando Uniforms

Notes
This game marked the first game in hopefully a prosperous career for rookie Akifumi Koike, the first rookie starting pitcher in CBL history. He got out of trouble in the first when he got Crede to fly out with 2 runners on. The next inning, he struck 2 batters out. Kip Wells was matching him. The first hit for Omaha was with 2 outs in the 3rd. The floodgates opened when Abernathy hit a home run with runners on the corners. The next inning, Simms doubled in Hillenbrand and LaForest to make the score 5-0. Boof Bonser came in for the save, but it was hardly easy. 8 batters came up, two tripled, then a double, a walk, a single. Bases loaded for Hermida, and Bonser gets him swinging. The champions are now in the win column

Batters
OMA
Mathews Jr. 2-2 2 2B, 1RBI
Vidro 0-3
Valentin 1-2 HR, BB, 1R, 1RBI
Monroe 1-3 1B, K
Hermida 0-3 K
Atkins 0-1 BB
Ensberg 1-2 3B, 1R
Bo. Crosby 0-2
Ellison 1-2 3B, 1R, 1RBI

ORL
Freeman 2-3 2 1B
Simms 1-2 2B, BB, 1R, 2RBI
Abernathy 1-3 HR, K, 1R, 3RBI
Grieve 1-2 1B
Crede 0-2
Hillenbrand 0-1 BB, 1R
LaForest 0-1 K, 1R
Inglett 0-2 2K
Robels 1-2 3B, 1R

Pitchers
OMA
Koike- 4 IP, 6.25 ERA, 4 Ks, 5 ER, 3 BB L

ORL
Wells- 4 IP, 1.25 ERA, 1 Ks, 1 ER, 1 BB W
Bonser- 1 IP, 10 ERA, 1 Ks, 2 ER, 1 BB

Player of the Game- Gary Mathews, Jr.