Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n#Playoff Seeding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The New York Gothams sealed their wild card spot with a walk-off, 4-3 victory over Portland. Buster Posey<\/strong> delivered the run scoring single in the bottom of the 9th. Jimmy Sheckard<\/strong> (who led off the game with his 20th homerun), Pinky Higgins<\/strong>, and Brian Dozier<\/strong> each had 2 hits for New York. The game also marked Christy Mathewson<\/strong>‘s final start of the regular season–despite a solid 5 plus innings, Mathewson was not around for the decision, leaving him on 17 wins for the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDetroit scored 10 runs in the 7th and 8th inning on their way to an 11-6 victory over the House of David. Ty Cobb<\/strong> extended his lead in the batting average race with a 4 hit day, Ed Bailey<\/strong> and Olmedo S\u00e1enz<\/strong> added 3 hits each, and Cecil Fielder<\/strong> hit the first homerun of his career and drove in 4 in the route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n#Other Games<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
San Francisco eked out a win in 10 innings over Indianapolis, who wasted a strong 7 innings from Dolf Luque<\/strong> (4 hits, only 1 unearned run). Despite giving up 2 runs in the bottom of the 10th, Rod Beck<\/strong> picked up his 33rd save. The Sea Lions’ Rickey Henderson<\/strong> stole his 96th base, keeping the chase for 100 alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJimmy Wynn<\/strong> hit his 19th homerun of the year, a walk-off blast into the Crawford Boxes as Houston edged Ottawa, 2-1. But the real story of the game was the two starting pitchers, each of whom are coming back from injury. For Houston, Bones Ely<\/strong> pitched 7 shutout innings, allowing only 3 hits while Ottawa saw the long anticipated return of Roy Halladay<\/strong>, who allowed only 4 hits and 0 runs in 6 innings. Neither were around for the decision, with the win going to Jay Howell<\/strong> while Sean O’Sullivan<\/strong> took the loss for the Mounties.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBaltimore went back-to-back-to-back in the 3rd inning with homeruns from Bryce Harper<\/strong>, Frank Robinson<\/strong>, and Curt Blefary<\/strong> in their victory over Kansas City. No real impact on the playoff race, but notable nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo we end the day with Baltimore’s magic number down to 1 to clinch the Cum Posey Division<\/em> and Birmingham’s down to 2 for the final playoff spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re doing it a bit differently for the final series of the season–TWIWBL will come out each day, focusing on three things: #The Battle for the Final Spot Philadelphia exploded for 6 runs in the 5th, then held on for dear life to defeat Birmingham, 8-5 for the Black Barons 4th consecutive loss (and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[952,943,416],"tags":[549,454,24,285,294,158,1055,260,638,571,407,1225,403,359,665,783,496,473,38,159,115,1429,185,262,70,231,254,1427,187,136,727,82,399,386,948,380,563,987,970,365,464,479],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-games","category-game-recaps","category-twiwbl","tag-aaron-judge","tag-adrian-gonzalez","tag-baltimore-black-sox","tag-birmingham-black-barons","tag-bob-nieman","tag-bobby-abreu","tag-bones-ely","tag-brian-dozier","tag-bryce-harper","tag-buck-freeman","tag-buster-posey","tag-cecil-fielder","tag-christy-mathewson","tag-cleveland-spiders","tag-cory-gearrin","tag-curt-blefary","tag-dolf-luque","tag-ed-bailey","tag-frank-robinson","tag-houston-colt-45s","tag-indianapolis-abcs","tag-jay-howell","tag-jim-wynn","tag-jimmy-sheckard","tag-kansas-city-monarchs","tag-new-york-black-yankees","tag-new-york-gothams","tag-olmedo-saenz","tag-ottawa-mounties","tag-philadelphia-stars","tag-pinky-higgins","tag-portland-sea-dogs","tag-rickey-henderson","tag-rod-beck","tag-roy-halladay","tag-san-francisco-sea-lions","tag-scott-rolen","tag-sean-osullivan","tag-stan-bahnsen","tag-terry-adams","tag-tris-speaker","tag-ty-cobb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","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=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}