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Team Smacker holds off late rally to defeat Team Walker for second time 
Team Walker 10
Team Smacker 11
 by Turd Ferguson
ITeam Walker and Team Smacker took the field for the third game of the day after a slight debate between the AWBL Commissioner and one of Team Smacker’s players. The game looked to be a blowout, but a late rally by Team Walker was cut just short by Kyle Means.
Team Walker got a run in the first inning after Joey Troupe’s triple drove in Andy Snyder who singled earlier in the inning. With a one run lead, Ryan Hetrick gave up an early inside the park homerun to Kyle Means after Troupe dived and missed his shot into the trees which tied the game. With the score tied at one, Troupe again drove in Snyder, this time with a two run homerun. With a two-run lead, Hetrick pitched a good bottom of the second. After giving up a single to Marc Lantz, Hetrick retired the side. In the top of the third, Team Walker was held hitless in two at-bats.
In the top of the third Hetricks magic and profanity ran out. After giving up a two-run homerun to David Huey after a Beveridge triple, Lantz grounded out. But then five consecutive hits and five consecutive runs spelled the end of Hetrick’s day at the mound. Walker game in for his second pitching appearance of the day and ended the bottom of the third.
With the score 8-3, Team Walker needed to get out the bats. Troupe led off the top of the fourth with his second homerun of the day, but the inning quickly ended with groundouts by Pritchard and Snyder. Walker gave up solo shots to Huey and Means in the top of the fourth which extended Team Smacker’s lead. Walker and Troupe each hit solo homeruns in the top of the firth to cut into the deficit, but once again the inning was cut short by a groundout by Walker and a bad base-running error by Pritchard.
With the score 9-3, Team Guidash tried to start a rally. Dustin Guidash led off the inning with an inside the park homerun. Matt Dinger singled after subbing in for A.J. Gillung and scored on a two run homerun by Andy Divelbiss, his first of the season. Zimmerman ended the inning with a groundout.
Team Smacker continued to consistently extend the lead in the bottom of the fifth by adding another run on a solo homerun by Marc Lantz. Snyder hit a solo homerun in the top of the sixth but once again that was the only run Team Walker could manage. Marc Lantz hit into a double play after grounding out, and David Huey was thrown out on his way to home by Joey Troupe from left-field.
With their backs against the walls, Team Walker had to get four runs in the top of the seventh to send the game to extra innings. Joey Troupe led off the inning with a homerun, h is fourth of the game. Pritchard followed with a triple, and scored on a two-run homerun by Andy Snyder. Walker followed with a groundout, and for the first time in the game, Troupe was retired on a line shot off the house to end the game.
Means got his second win of the year on the mound and Hetrick picked up his first loss in the first pitching performance of his career. Hetrick was moved to the bullpen after the game and was declared the clubs closer.
 Box Score
T Walker AB R H RBI BB SO LOB
Snyder 7 4 5 3 0 0 0
Walker 7 1 1 1 0 0 0
Troupe 7 4 6 6 0 0 0
Hetrick 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Pritchard 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
Davis 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
T Smack AB R H RBI BB SO LOB
Lantz 7 2 3 2 0 0 0
Means 6 4 5 4 0 0 1
Beveridge 6 2 2 0 0 0 1
Huey 6 3 4 5 0 0 0

Turd Ferguson is a regular contributor to AWBL2K3.