The White Sox took their record to 16-1-1 with a 10-1 victory over the Culver Marina Dodgers on Saturday afternoon. The Sox used an explosvie 8 run 3rd inning and lights out relief pitching to earn the victory.
The Dodgers got out to an early lead in the top of the second inning with an RBI single by Louie to score Iverson. The Dodgers' starting pitcher, Anthony, held the White Sox scoreless for 2 innings allowing only 2 walks and 1 single.
Devin Martin ignited a White Sox rally in the bottom of the third with a single after Kaelin Woodard walked. Grant Craddolph followed with a walk. Robert Togia delivered a huge blow with a double to right center field to score Kaelin, Devin, and Grant. Nathan Moore displayed patience at the plate to draw a bases loaded walk and score another run. Alonzo Billips, batting from the left side, also contributed an RBI single up the middle to advance the rally. Kaelin, in his second at bat of the inning, punctuated the rally with a 3 RBI double to right center field.
Jibri Walden took over the pitching duties and held the Dodgers scoreless for the remainder of the game; going 4 shut out, no hit, no walk innings.
The Sox added 2 additional runs in the fourth inning. Lawrence Gilliam drew a 7 pitch lead off walk. Robert followed with a base hit to move Lawrence to third base. Kelvin Murillo laid down a spectacular sacrifice bunt to score Lawrence. On the play, Robert Togia also scored and Kelvin reached safely due to an error. The play would close the books on the scoring for the Sox.
Defensively, the Sox were led by Robert behind the plate. Jordan Strong, Nathan and Lawrence were sure-handed at first base and accounted for 9 put outs. Grant, Kelvin, and Alonzo handled the middle infield duties with 7 assists.
The win completed a 3 game season sweep of the always feisty Culver Marina Dodgers.
Game 19
The White Sox pulled out a thriller in their Ladera field regular season finale against the Ladera Dbacks. The final score, 17-10, is a poor indicator of the competitiveness of the contest.
The White Sox got off to a fast start with 6 runs in the top of the first inning with singles by Kaelin Woodard, Mathew Hamilton and Grant Craddolph, along with walks by Alonzo Billips, Lawrence Gilliam, Robert Togia, Jordan Strong, and Jibri Walden.
White Sox starting pitcher, Lawrence, who entered the game with a 0.0 ERA was shaky from the beginning, hitting a batter and walking 2 others while allowing a run in the bottom of the first.
The Sox added a run in the top of the second on back to back doubles by Lawrence and Grant to make the score 7-1.
The Dbacks fought back with 4 runs in the bottom of the second; benefiting from 4 walks and a single by Desean Green; taking the score to 7-5.
Again, the Sox added a run in the top of the third for a 3 run cushion. Jibri singled and Quientin Collier drew a walk. Kaelin delivered a ground ball to the short stop to score Jibri.
Dominic Vasquez contributed a single in the top of the fourth but was left stranded.
The Dbacks earned a run in the bottom of the fourth when Jordan Crisp scored on a ground ball to second base by Desean Green to make the score 8-5.
In the top of the fifth, Kaelin singled. Nathan Moore reached on a fielder's choice to second base with Kaelin being nailed at second base. Lawrence delivered his second double of the game to place runners at second and third. Nathan used his quicks to score on a wild pitch. After an intentional walk to Grant, Lawrence scored on a wild pitch to Dominic. Kelvin Murillo also scored on the play after an error by the Dbacks. After 4 1/2 innings, the Sox led 12-5.
The resilient Dbacks dug deep and unleashed a 5 run rally on the Sox in the bottom of the 5th inning. Kyle Reece doubled and Christian Hooks, Josh Calcote, and Ricky Moore singled in the inning. The White Sox called upon closing pitcher, Grant Craddolph to squash the rally. At the end of 5, the score was 12-10 White Sox.
Feeling the sting of the Dbacks rally, the White Sox battled back with their own hit parade. Jibri got the party started with a fly ball triple to deep left field. Devin Martin collected an RBI double with line drive to left center field. Kaelin scored Devin on a mishandled ground ball. Lawrence completed his 3 for 3 day with a ground ball single to left field to score Kaelin. Kelvin followed with a walk to set the stage for a 3 run bomb to right field by Grant. The home run was Grant's 4th of the year and ties him for the team and league lead with Lawrence. Just like that, the White Sox held a comfortable 7 run lead entering the bottom of the 6th inning.
Grant remained on the mound and closed the game with a "1,2,3" inning.
I have added a link to the league home run race page below:
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