Sunday, January 8, 2012

KOD 13 - Tier A Playoffs - Bucs eliminate 'Stros in 4


Game One - Alan Ashby's two-run double in the eighth gives the Astros a 2-1 lead, but Bill Madlock leads off the bottom of the eighth with a homer to tie the game, and Willie Stargell's pinch-hit double in the ninth scores Tim Foli to give the Pirates a 3-2 lead.
WP - M. Lee        LP - D. Smith
Game Two - The Astros break open a tie game with four runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth and cruise to a 10-3 win over the Pirates. The big hits were a two-run triple by Jose Cruz in the fifth and an RBI triple by Tony Scott in the sixth, while Bob Knepper scatters ten hits in going the distance.
WP - Knepper    LP - Tiant
Game Three - The Pirates score an unearned run to tie the game with two outs in the top of the ninth on Joe Pitman's error and send the game into extra innings. Kent Tekulve gets into, and out of a bases-loaded jam in the eleventh, and the Pirates score in the thirteenth on Jason Thompson's RBi single and win the game 3-2.
WP - O. Jones    LP - LaCorte    SV - Scurry
Game Four - Dave Parker's three-run homer breaks the game open in the eighth to give the Pirates a 6-1 lead, and Kent Tekulve comes in from the bullpen in the ninth for Eddie Solomon to close out the Astros 6-2 to clinch the series in four games for Pittsburgh.
WP - Solomon    LP - J. Niekro    SV - Tekulve
--submitted by Chris Gotay--

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