9/8 games

[maurice]

Birmingham starts and Winston-Salem resumes their playoff series tonight.
Kanny gets the day off.

[maurice]

Both games are underway.
Chuck Haeger takes the hill for the Barons.
Ray Liotta is on the bump for the Warthogs.

[maurice]

B'ham is in the 3rd. Lots of zeros for both teams.

W-S leads 1-0 through 3 on a Hinton HR.
Liotta so far: 3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 BB, 4 K.

[BO1225]

Winston Salem Down 6-1 In 5th Liotta 4.2 Inn 6er down but not out!

[ChiSoxRowand]

B'ham got no hit and lost 2-0. At least the guy who got it is Chad Billingsley who is a really good prospect. Haeger had a decent outing 8IP 2 ER 7 H 4 BB 5 Ks.

[maurice]

With the 8-1 loss, W-S was eliminated from the playoffs.

[BigEdWalsh]

Just for the record, Great Falls (Pioneer League) finished their season last night with a 6-1 victory. The Sox finished in last place with a 17-21 record.They finished next-to-last in the 1st half at 15-23.

Francisco Hernandez led the team in batting (.349). Evan Tartaglia was second at .305. Tartaglia also had a team leading 38 steals though he was caught 13 times. Brandon Allen led the Sox with 11 homers.
The top pitchers were Paul Moviel (4-1, 4.04), Eric Everly (1-2, 3.12-limited to 8 games) and out of the pen Jay Marshall (2-0, 6 Svs, 2.70) and Nick Lemon (3-4, 3 Svs, 2.63).