June 23, 2007: Nationals 5 Indians 4 (13)

Posted by spooky at 4:37 PM




The Nats and Indians needed 13 innings to decide this one, with the Nats coming out victorious when Austin Kearns and Ryan Church led off the 13th with back to back doubles.

The Nats were cruising along with a 3-0 lead when starter Matt Chico tired in the 7th and allowed back to back homers to Jhonny Peralta and Jason Michaels. Chico was pulled in favor of Jon Rauch, who was no relief at all and allowed the Indians to load the bases without recording an out. Rauch gave way to Luis Ayala, who did allow the tying run to cross from a Grady Sizemore sac fly, but then got Franklin Gutierrez to line into a double play.

The score would hold until the 11th, then the Indians again loaded the bases, this time off Chad Cordero. I pulled Cordero for Jesus Colome, who struck out pinch hitter Ryan Garko but then allowed a single to Sizemore. One run scored, but Kelly Shoppach was out at home trying to make it 5-3.

The Nats would get one right back in the bottom of the 11th off Indians closer Joe Borowski. With one out, Ryan Church would double and then 2 straight wild pitches would score him. The score held until the 13th, when Church doubled again to win the game.

The game may have been over sooner if not for Grady Sizemore's leap - he robbed the Nats of home runs in both the 11th and 12th!


Strat-O-Matic Report





BOXSCORE: 2007 Cleveland Indians At 2007 Washington Nationals       6/23/2007
 
  Indians            AB  R  H RBI AVG     Nationals          AB  R  H RBI AVG
  G.Sizemore CF       5  0  3  2 .253     F.Lopez 2B          5  0  0  0 .270  
  F.Gutierrez RF      5  0  1  0 .235     C.Guzman SS         6  1  3  1 .320  
  C.Blake 3B          5  0  1  0 .239     R.Zimmerman 3B      6  1  4  0 .277  
  V.Martinez 1B       6  0  0  0 .298     D.Young 1B          5  1  2  0 .302  
  J.Peralta SS        6  2  2  1 .284     J.Colome P          1  0  0  0 .500  
  J.Michaels LF       6  1  2  1 .280     A.Kearns RF         6  1  1  0 .244  
  K.Shoppach C        5  1  1  0 .302     R.Church LF         6  1  2  1 .214  
  J.Barfield 2B       5  0  3  0 .211     B.Schneider C       4  0  2  2 .228  
  P.Byrd P            1  0  0  0 .000     C.Cordero P         0  0  0  0 ----  
A-B.Francisco PH      0  0  0  0 .000   F-T.Batista 1B        0  0  0  0 .296  
  R.Perez P           1  0  0  0 .000     B.Watson CF         2  0  1  0 .250  
E-R.Garko PH          1  0  0  0 .290   B-N.Logan PH,CF       3  0  0  0 .357  
  J.Borowski P        0  0  0  0 .000     M.Chico P           2  0  0  0 .100  
  E.Mujica P          0  0  0  0 ----     J.Rauch P           0  0  0  0 .000  
                                          L.Ayala P           0  0  0  0 ----  
                                        C-R.Belliard PH       1  0  0  0 .296  
                                          C.Schroder P        0  0  0  0 ----  
                                        D-J.Flores PH,C       2  0  0  0 .217  
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---      
         Totals      46  4 13  4                 Totals      49  5 15  4
 
A-Pinch Hit For Byrd In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Watson In 7th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Ayala In 7th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Schroder In 9th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Perez In 11th Inning
F-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Cordero In 11th Inning
 
Indians......... 0 0 0  0 0 0  3 0 0  0 1 0  0 -  4 13  0
Nationals....... 1 0 0  1 0 1  0 0 0  0 1 0  1 -  5 15  1
 
Indians (31-42)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
P.Byrd                    6       8   3   3   1   1   1  86   6.55
R.Perez                   4       3   0   0   0   3   0  59   4.50
J.Borowski L(2-3) BS(5th) 2       3   2   2   1   2   0  41   3.09
E.Mujica                  0       1   0   0   0   0   0   3  20.77
Totals                   12      15   5   5   2   6   1
 
Nationals (38-36)        IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
M.Chico                   6       6   2   2   1   2   2  91   3.83
J.Rauch                   0       2   1   1   1   0   0  13   1.79
L.Ayala BS(1st)           1       0   0   0   0   0   0  13   0.00
C.Schroder                2       0   0   0   0   2   0  23   0.00
C.Cordero                 1 1/3   3   1   1   2   0   0  35   6.08
J.Colome WIN(5-3)         2 2/3   2   0   0   0   3   0  33   4.70
Totals                   13      13   4   4   4   7   2
 
ATTENDANCE- 43,074 DATE- Saturday, June 23rd 2007 TIME- Night WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Jeff Kellogg, Eric Cooper, Andy Fletcher, Mike Reilly
T- 4:30
LEFT ON BASE- Indians:10  Nationals: 9
DOUBLE PLAYS- Indians: 0  Nationals: 3
ERRORS- B.Schneider
DOUBLES- C.Blake(19th), K.Shoppach(7th), R.Zimmerman(19th), A.Kearns(21st),
         R.Church-2(11th), B.Watson(2nd)
HOME RUNS- J.Peralta(12th), J.Michaels(6th), C.Guzman(3rd)
STOLEN BASES- J.Barfield(6th)
CAUGHT STEALING- F.Lopez
SACRIFICE HITS- F.Gutierrez, P.Byrd
SACRIFICE FLIES- G.Sizemore
WALKS- C.Blake, K.Shoppach, J.Barfield, B.Francisco, F.Lopez, T.Batista
STRIKE OUTS- G.Sizemore, F.Gutierrez-2, V.Martinez, K.Shoppach-2, R.Garko,
             F.Lopez, R.Zimmerman, D.Young, N.Logan, R.Belliard, J.Flores
GIDP- C.Blake, V.Martinez
WILD PITCHES- J.Borowski-2
WEB GEMS- Top 5th: Felipe Lopez robbed Kelly Shoppach of a base hit.
          Bot 11th: Grady Sizemore robbed Austin Kearns of a Homerun!
          Bot 12th: Grady Sizemore robbed Ryan Zimmerman of a Homerun!
 
43,074 fans watched an exciting game at RFK STADIUM.  The Washington Nationals
topped the Cleveland Indians by the slimmest of margins, 5 to 4.
 
The score was knotted at 3 after nine innings.  Washington came out on top in
the 13th inning.  Austin Kearns doubled.  Ryan Church was next and he doubled
resulting in a mighty exciting win for Washington and the 43,074 home town
fans in attendance.  Washington finished with 15 hits in the victory.
 
Jesus Colome(5-3) went 2 and 2/3 innings allowing no runs for the win. Joe
Borowski(2-3) ended up with the loss in relief.  He gave up 2 runs and 3 hits
in 2 innings.








 

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