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Friday, February 22, 2008 |
Back In The Saddle Again: Dirtbags 1, Owls 0
Opening day, and what a game between the Friday night starters of Rice and Long Beach State, too: both starters went deep into the game, both racked up gaudy strikeout totals — Andrew Liebel putting together a career-high of 11 in eight frames, while Rice starter Ryan Berry went seven and struck out eight. The Bags threatened several times in regulation, but never really were able to cash in those runners. Both pitchers worked quickly and barely wasted any pitches, with Liebel in particular putting together several three-pitch strikeouts. In fact, he didn't get to a three-ball count until the fourth inning or so, a really impressive showing that had both sides going rat-a-tat-tat through an extra innings game that concluded in 2:40.
Danny Espinoza, the team's best hitter, finally came through in the bottom of the tenth with a bases-loaded, two-out RBI single against reliever Bryan Price, who took the loss. Price managed to walk the bases loaded with two out, and had quite a difficult time locating his pitches even with the help of an umpire with a generous strike zone.
The game had its amusing moments, too, the kind of stuff you expect to see early in the season: catcher Adam Zornes miscounted the outs and rolled the ball to the mound with a man on first early in the game. Thereafter, the crowd heckled him mercilessly about the number of outs.
Yeah, it was fun to be back at the yard again.
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