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REBL Line of the Week for 9/16 Goes to
our very own: Jason Masciorini, Padres
5 AB, 3 R, 4 H, 0 RBI, 5 SB
Game Summary for Padres Vs Athletics
Sunday the 16th of September 2007 at Santa Rosa High School
 The
Pads jumped out to a 4-0 lead this week over the short-handed A's,
who only had 8 players. Furthermore, they had to start Ryan Metcalfe
at first, who is coming back this year from a car accident that
almost claimed his life the night before the first round of the
playoffs last year. Unfortunately, the A's came right back in the
bottom half of the inning and moved ahead in the next couple innings,
holding off the Friars, allowing only 2 additional runs until the
ninth. However, after a couple rough innings, Pad's starter Jack
Marion settled down and held the A's in check as well for most of
the game, a large job against one of the best hitting teams in the
league with two .500 hitters in Dodson and Mastroyannakis. Although,
Dodson has been mysteriously absent from the lineup the past two
weeks, prompting speculation around the league that he's intentionally
sitting to claim the batting title. The official comment coming
out of the A's camp is that he "hurt his wrist washing his
truck".
Going into the top of the ninth, the men
in navy needed three to tie the Athletics and would have to do it
against the closer, Steve "Letters From" Nojima. Leading
off the ninth was Guigni, who hit a hard grounder up the middle
that was played nicely by SS Mastroyannakis for the first out of
the inning. A-Wag, came up next and promptly grounded a ball to
third for what appeared to be the second out of the inning. Fortunately,
the ball was bobbled, and Wagoner beat it out. Fisher then came
up and was hit by a pitch, bringing the tying run to the plate in
Jason Masciorini, who had a banner day at the plate, going 4-5,
3R, 5SB. In this match-up, Nojima was able to gain the upper hand,
striking out JMash, bring up Jesse "Balls to The" Walls
with two outs.
Walls ripped the third pitch, a fastball,
into left for a single, and it appeared for a moment that the Friars
might tie it up when A's LF Shawn Purcell misplayed it and it rolled
all the way to the wall. However, Walls was held up at third, bringing
Pads slugger Pete "On the Down" Lopez to the plate as
the potential winning run. Lopez ripped a hard ground ball towards
the hole, however, A's 2B Matt Wolfe made a nice play ranging to
his left to end the game, with the Pads on the losing end of a 9-8
score.
Player of the Game: Jason Masciorini
4-5, 3R, 5SB
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