Playoffs Round 1: 6/4/2024

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Game 1: 4th seed TBD vs 5th seed Beers
Beers plate 3 in the 1st on a Kevin Dooley 3-run blast. TBD quietly puts up 4 in the 1st 3 innings. Beers score again in the top of the 4th and plate 2 to take a temporary 5-4 lead. TBD retakes the lead by scoring 2 in the bottom with a double from Mike Kilkenny. Beers take the lead again with a 4 run effort in the 5th. Doubles come from Evan Gutman, Ryan Maley (his 2nd of the night), and Scott Runzer. Trailing 9-6 in the bottom of the 5th, TBD goes off and scores 8. Jimmy Wiegers triples, Tyler Detzel and Dylan Smith both double. Beers, facing a 5 run deficit, make the game tight by scoring 3 in the top of the 5th. Chris Amhalt triples in 2 of the runs. Score is now 14-12, favor TBD. TBD widens their lead in the bottom of the 6th. Detzel doubles again. Seeing that they need 6 runs to force a bottom of the 7th, Beers promptly score 6. Ryan Maley homers, and Josh Goldberg doubles. Facing extra innings, all tied up at 18, TBD gets to work. Steven Gebre leads off with a single. Collin Sheehan follows that with a double. Tyler Quinlan works a a walk to load the bases for Jimmy Wiegers who quickly ends the game with a walk off grand slam. TBD goes on to the 9PM game with a nice win, 22-18.

Game 2: 3rd seed Commish vs 6th seed Kings Corner
Kings Corner starts off hot with 3 runs in the 1st. Mat Schaub homers. Commish and Jon Poore answer back with a 2-run blast. Jon Motts doubles. All's quiet in the 2nd and 3rd, but Kings Corner adds 2 in the 4th. Mike Capacchione doubles and Ryan Schaub homers. Commish retake the lead in the bottom of the 5th on walks and singles. They'll add 7 more in the bottom of the 6th after batting around. This game is over after 6 with a 15-5 Commish win.

Game 3: 4th seed TBD vs 1st seed Wire2Wire Sports Podcast
TBD scores just 2 runs in the 1st 5 innings. Wire2Wire, meanwhile, score 13. Doubles come from Jim DiMezza (2) and Brian Dart, while Alex Freeman and Ben Vitelli both triple. TBD scores 1 in the 6th, but Wire2Wire score 2. TBD puts up 3 in the top of the 7th, with Dylan Smith tripling, but they fall short. Wire2Wire moves on to the championship series next week with a 15-6 win.

Game 4: 3rd seed Commish vs 2nd seed Philly Junk
Commish muster just 3 hits, 4 baserunners, and no runs overall in this game. Meanwhile, Philly Junk scores in every inning and bats around in the 2nd and 4th. Jason Ashworth doubles, Pat Kelley homers twice with 5 RBIs, and Tyler Gower doubles. Game over after 4, 20-0. Philly Junk goes on the face Wire2Wire in the next week's championship series.