{"id":3628,"date":"2023-06-14T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2023-06-14T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:29:35","slug":"series-xxxiii-featured-matchup-chicago-american-giants-wandering-house-of-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/14\/series-xxxiii-featured-matchup-chicago-american-giants-wandering-house-of-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Series XXXIII Featured Matchup: Chicago American Giants @ Wandering House of David"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Series preview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Game 1: David Price @ Wade Miley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chicago’s David Price<\/strong> was masterful, allowing only 1 run and 3 hits in just shy of 8 innings, leading the American Giants to a 5-1 victory. Dick Allen<\/strong> hit his 21st homerun and Kevin Mitchell<\/strong> his 2nd for Chicago, who also got 2 hits from Frank Thomas<\/strong> and Duffy Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Giants got a bit of a scare in the 7th as a Scott Downs<\/strong> fastball slammed into Mike Fiore<\/strong>‘s face. The American Giants CF got up from the ground with blood streaming from their nose, and had to be replaced by Jack Doyle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAG 5 <\/strong>(Price 2-0) @ HOD 1 <\/strong>(Miley 7-5)
<\/em>HRs<\/strong>: CAG – Allen (21), Mitchell (2); HOD – Edmonds (15).
Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News after the game was good for Chicago: Fiore would only miss a few days with a broken nose and, perhaps, a new profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More importantly, Pete Browning<\/strong> has, at long last, accumulated enough plate appearances to qualify for the the league leader lists. Browning leads the league in BA at .354 and is 3rd in SLG at .636.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Game 2: Mark Buehrle @ Frank Sullivan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The House of David got one back with a sterling starting performance of their own as Frank Sullivan<\/strong> pitched into the 9th inning having allowed only 1 run and 5 hits. Despite some recent struggles, Bruce Sutter<\/strong> was solid in relief, picking up his 20th save of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elrod Hendricks<\/strong> gave the House of David an early lead with his 33rd homerun of the year, a 2-run shot in the bottom of the first. They would double their lead in the 5th, first on an RBI double from Skeeter Barnes<\/strong> and then when Barnes pulled off a steal of home with 2 outs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago’s Mark Buehrle<\/strong> was the hard luck loser, allowing 7 hits in what turned out to be a complete game 8 innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAG 1 <\/strong>(Buehrle 10-9) @ HOD 4 <\/strong>(Sullivan 9-8; Sutter 20 Sv)
<\/em>HRs<\/strong>: CAG – Collins (18); HOD – Hendricks (33).
Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Game 3: Ben Sheets @ Jack Taylor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Chicago considered sending Ed Walsh<\/strong> out instead of the struggling Ben Sheets<\/strong>, the American Giants decided in the end to keep their rotation intact, hoping Sheets can match up against the league’s best pitcher, Jack Taylor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homeruns from Frank Thomas<\/strong> and Crist\u00f3bal Torriente<\/strong> gave Chicago an early 3-0 lead, but Taylor settled down after that. Surprisingly, Sheets was even better, tossing a 3-hit shutout through 5 innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 6th was decisive: a double by Duffy Lewis<\/strong> made it 4-0, and Dick Allen<\/strong>‘s 22nd homerun (and 99th RBI) chased Taylor with the score 6-0 Chicago. 3 more runs in the 7th made it 9-0, and the game seemed out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seemed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 runs in the bottom of the inning put the House of David on the board, and then they exploded in the bottom of the 8th, fueled by a 2-run double by Pete Browning<\/strong> and a bases clearing double from Richie Hebner<\/strong>. Suddenly, it was 9-7 with Hebner on 3rd and 1 out. A single from Ron Santo<\/strong>–his 4th hit of the day–made it 9-8 and chased Don Newcombe<\/strong> from the mound. Hoyt Wilhelm<\/strong> got out of the inning, but suddenly we had a ballgame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But AJ Minter<\/strong> closed it out for his 23rd save, and Chicago won a game that was far closer than it should have been. The win put Chicago ahead 2-1 in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAG 9 <\/strong>(Sheets 9-8; Minter 23 Sv; Wilhelm 3 H) @ HOD 8 <\/strong>(Taylor 14-9)
<\/em>HRs<\/strong>: CAG – Thomas (24), Torriente (1), Allen (22); HOD – none.
Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Game 4: Tricky Nichols @ CC Sabathia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

George Stone<\/strong> led off the bottom of the 1st with his 26th homerun, but Chicago answered with a bases-loaded double from Freddy Parent. Chicago’s Tricky Nichols<\/strong> never really settled down, giving up dingers to Jim Edmonds<\/strong> and Ernie Banks<\/strong> in the 3rd before another homerun, this one to Anthony Rizzo<\/strong>, chased him in the 4th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CC Sabathia<\/strong>, meanwhile, was cruising, not allowing a run since Parent’s double through 6 innings. His relief didn’t do so well: a Dick Allen<\/strong> homerun started their 8th inning, and a flurry of singles brought in 3 more runs. That closed the gap to 8-7 in favor of the House of David.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, much like the prior game, the closer came through: Bruce Sutter<\/strong> struck out 2 in a perfect 9th to give the House of David a series split.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAG 7 <\/strong>(Nichols 14-8) @ HOD 8 <\/strong>(Sabathia 11-11; Sutter 21 Sv; Smith 13 H)<\/em>
HRs<\/strong>: CAG – Allen (23); HOD – Stone (26), Edmonds (16), Banks (23), Rizzo (13).
Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Series preview here. #Game 1: David Price @ Wade Miley Chicago’s David Price was masterful, allowing only 1 run and 3 hits in just shy of 8 innings, leading the American Giants to a 5-1 victory. Dick Allen hit his 21st homerun and Kevin Mitchell his 2nd for Chicago, who also got 2 hits from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[951,943],"tags":[452,106,856,609,604,339,356,497,942,212,858,447,104,110,600,453,777,431,983,940,514,860,343,857,616,613,615,1066,1424,340,98],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-series","category-game-recaps","tag-a-j-minter","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-ben-sheets","tag-bruce-sutter","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-chicago-american-giants","tag-cristobal-torriente","tag-david-price","tag-dick-allen","tag-don-newcombe","tag-duffy-lewis","tag-ed-walsh","tag-elrod-hendricks","tag-ernie-banks","tag-frank-sullivan","tag-frank-thomas","tag-george-stone","tag-hoyt-wilhelm","tag-jack-doyle","tag-jack-w-taylor","tag-jim-edmonds","tag-kevin-mitchell","tag-mark-buehrle","tag-mike-fiore","tag-pete-browning","tag-richie-hebner","tag-ron-santo","tag-scott-downs","tag-skeeter-barnes","tag-tricky-nichols","tag-wandering-house-of-david"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}