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Game #3 Boston Almost Pulls Off Major Upset of Comets Losing in Extra Innings 6-5

In a shocking development, The Boston Renegades would find the game against the Comet A team to be on local cable television. With play-by-play announcers, TV trucks and cameras watching the game, the Renegades prepared for battle. The rain had stopped and the team took what it had been doing well and stepped it up a level. The name of this game was defense as both teams would start their #2 pitchers Luis Lopez for Chicago and Dan Cottter for Boston. Chicago would start the game out by sending 4 batters to the plate and striking out three times. Larry Haile would score on a pop fly to tie the game for the Renegades in the first. Then the Boston defense caught fire as they would stop the next 5 hitters in a row with outs made by 4 different players (Haile, Inkiala, Vasile (2) and Black). In the bottom of the third Larry Haile and his roommate Shayne Cantan plated runs to give the Renegades a 2 run lead. The Comets scratched a run in the 4th and 5th but the Renegades were making play after play in the field on hard hit balls and junk as Vasile (2), Cantan, Quintanilla and Inkiala made big plays in these innings. Boston would break the 3 run tie open with 2 runs in the 5th as Haile and Inkiala kept the dream alive for Boston. By now all eyes were on this game as all the teams gathered to watch the game rooting on the underdog. The man called Big G led off the 6th with a line smash down the 3rd baseline. The next two Comet hitters struck out. Down to their last out and down a run, Wally Mozdzierz hit a bleeder up the gut of the Boston Defense that found a hole through the middle of the field for the tying run as the Comet A team breathed a sigh of relief. Boston would come up empty in the 6th as Mike Grunze made a great stop on a bang bang play from a high fly ball off the bat of Shayne Cantan that could have ended the game. Francese showed why he was the 2008 World Series offensive MVP as he scored in the 7th on a 150 ft Long fly ball which Larry Haile tracked down a split second after Francese hit the base for the winning run. Francese then made a big play in the bottom of the inning on a ball hit by Dino Vasile. Francese would be the player of the game as he scored two huge runs in the 6th and 7th innings and made 4 big stops while manning 3rd base. The 13 stops by the Boston Defense would rank as the 3rd most in team history to date

Game #6 Rengades Come Back From the Dead to Down Long Island in 9 Innings (13-12)

This game had it all. Drama, crazy plays, defense and offense. In the bottom of the first, it was all Dino all the time as he made 3 stops in a row. Both teams had their first runs scored by the #6 hitter in the 2nd inning as Joey Buizon and Alex Barrera both scored on bombs into right field that brought oooos and ahhhs from the crowd. Shayne Cantan would give Boston the lead in the second but it would be short lived. Long Island would score three runs to start the third before Coach Weissman would call a time out to to make a change to the defense which had blown the three previous plays. The move took Black out of Right Shorty and put Zucarello to Midfield. That move paid off right away as Black regained confidence by putting the next player out. Zucarello would also make 2 plays in the 4th and 5th for the first outs of the game at the midfield position as he shored up the defense. In the 5th inning after Long Island had built an 8-2 lead Matt Sapolin came off the bench for a pinch hit appearance. Sapolin, recovering from cancer treatments received a standing ovation from both benches in a touching moment. Long Island thought the game was over...but they forgot one thing, Boston never quits! Vasile and Shayne Cantan both scored on line drive smashes up the middle of the field. Joe Quintanilla then scored on a dribbler up the first base line and the score was 8-6 with none out. Guy Zuccarello then hit a line drive up the middle and was put out on a bang bang play by Ted Fass. Tony Flinn entered the batters box and there was an equipment malfunction with first base. Weissman had a hunch and used the extra time to make a switch to bring in rookie Justen Cantan to pinch hit for Flinn. Cantan had just finished his first ever game stepped into the box with a grin from ear to ear. In an epic at-bat after fouling off six consecutive pitches, Ron Cochran connected and Cantan hit a grounder down the 3rd baseline to Jim Hughes and he beat it out to bring the Renegades one run away from tying it. The Renegade bench roared as Rookie Justen Cantan contributed after such a grueling at-bat. Buizon stepped into the box. Buizon had struck out 5 times in 6 at-bats on the day to this point. Coaches Weissman and Lenicheck worked hard to calm Buizon down to help him with his timing. On a 3 strike count, Buizon hit a bomb into right field to tie up the game. Shayne Cantan would give them a lead and the comeback was a reality. The bombers were shocked. The epic extra innings are captured below:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	Runs	Strike-outs	Put-outs
Bayou City	1	0	1	3	1	6	12	7	6
Boston	7	2	3	5	x	x	17	6	11

Boston had a bye as they sent most of the team back to sit in the air-conditioned hotels while Bayou City defeated Stockton 20-9. The Renegades were geared up for this game to see how they may stack up against one of the elite teams in the NBBA. Boston would win the coin toss (one of only 2 coin toss wins in 6 games) and select home team. Coach Boudreaux would tell his team to score early as they had remembered the big comeback in 2007 and had just witnessed Boston scoring 11 of their 18 runs in the last 2 innings against Stockton. After the dust settled in the first inning of this match-up, Bayou City had collected 7 runs and Boston had struck out three times after only plating one run (Shayne Cantan). In fact, Boston would be dead cold as 5 of the first 11 batters would strike out and the Renegades would be buried 12-2. The infamous lunch time coma had hit the Renegades as their bats looked inconsistent in their swings. In the top of the 4th inning the 12 run rule was invoked at 17-2. But just as Boudreux predicted, the bats started to wake up. Boston would score 10 runs in the last three innings including 6 of the first 7 batters to make a battle of it in the 6th inning. In the end there was too much ground to make up. Bobby Lakey would make 5 defensive stops for the Heat on the way to the Defensive MVP of the World Series (4.78 per game). John Kibodeaux would be the MVP of this game as he scored twice in the first inning and would score in his first 4 at bats of the game on his way to place 5th on the all-offensive team at .689.

Bayou City	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
Kibodeaux	5	4	1	2	Vasile -LS	5	3	1	3
Clark	3	2	0	0	S. Cantan -3B	5	3	0	0
- Rodriguez	2	1	1	0	Haile -1B	2	1	1	0
Boudreaux	5	2	1	2	Quintanilla -1B	3	2	0	0
Minor	5	4	0	1	Buizon -R	5	2	2	1
Shavers -DH	4	1	1	0	Ward -DH	5	1	2	0
-Roberts	1	0	1	0	Zucarello -DF/MF	0	0	0	2
Lakey-DF	0	0	0	5	Inkiala -RS	2	0	0	0
Fazio	4	3	1	1	-Black RS	0	0	0	0
					J. Cantan -PH	3	0	1	0

Totals	29	17	6	11	Totals	30	12	7	6

Pitcher- Medrano					Pitcher-Cochran	30	12	7
					Catcher-Weissman
					Caller-Grillo
					Spotter-Nippins

Game #11 Colorado Storms back on Boston to win in Extra innings 13-12

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs	Strike-outs	Put-outs
Boston	2	3	0	0	7	0	0	12	7	16
Colorado	1	0	2	2	2	5	1	13	2	14

The first game of the double elimination round would pit the Renegades against the Colorado Storm. The storm had beaten the Renegades in the past two years in the double elimination portion of the bracket. Before the game started, Coach Weissman predicted a 13-11 game. His prediction would be very close...unfortunately for the Renegades. The first two innings looked like it would be all Renegades as they jumped to a 5-2 lead as Vasile and Shayne Cantan each scored twice and Larry Haile once. Defensively, the Boston Shorties were gobbling things up as Vasile made 2 stops and Zucarello made 3. The 3rd inning would start the frustration as Zucarello would lead off the inning with what should have been a run but he missed first base and was called out. Before he could collect himself, the Donuts were building for Boston. After Four innings the score was knotted at 5 a piece and Johnny Walker only had one strike-out to Boston's four. Just when Weissman was looking to make moves, the Bats woke up and scored six consecutive times as each player in the line-up scored with Shayne Cantan scoring a pair. This would mark the only 3 runs from the bottom half of the Renegade line-up. Clinging to a 12-7 lead, Weissman elected to let the bottom of his line-up hit again despite being 3 for 9 on the day. They would go down 1-2-3. Boston would take the field and Zucarello and Vasile would make the first two stops in the field off the 5 and 6 hitters in the Storm line-up. The Storm would plate three runs in a row before Boston called a time-out. Clinging to a 2 run lead, Weissman reminded the team not to panic because if Dominguez scored they had Trujillo and Oldham who were 0-8 on the day. All they needed was one out. Trujillo tied it up on a blast up the middle. Oldham then hit a dribbler down the 3rd baseline but took two steps to first before realizing third was buzzing. In his efforts to get to the right base, he slammed into Vasile sending the ambulance on to the field.

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Colorado	AB	R	K	PO
Vasile - LS	6	3	1	6	Johnston	6	4	0	6
S. Cantan -3B	6	4	0	0	Morrow	5	2	2	4
Haile - DH	6	2	0	0	Patton	5	3	0	2
Black -DF/MF	0	0	0	3	Dominguez	5	3	0	2
Buizon -R	5	1	4	1	Trujillo	5	1	0	0
Quintanilla -1B	5	1	1	1	Oldham -DH	5	0	0	0
Zuccarello -RS	5	1	1	5	Clinton -DF	0	0	0	0

Totals	33	12	7	16	Totals	31	13	2	14

Pitcher- Cochran	33	12	7		Pitcher-Walker
Catcher-Weissman
Caller-Grillo
Spotter-Nippins

Oldham would be called out and would be taken away with an ankle injury. The momentum was all Denver as Vasile whiffed to lead off, Cantan grounded out to Morrow and Haile hit a dribbler up the middle to Johnston. In the bottom of the 7th Shoeless Ethan Johnston led off the inning with a blast up the middle to seal the come from behind victory handing Boston one of its toughest losses in team history. Ethan Johnston would be the MVP of this game with 4 runs (including the game winner) and 6 defensive stops. He would go on to finish 8th in both offense (.610) and Defense (3.38 stops per game) in the World Series.

Game #12 Indy Thunder Rains on Renegade Parade 18-16

	1	2	3	4	5	6	Runs	Strike-outs	Put-outs
Boston	1	1	4	5	4	1	16	5	14
Indy	1	6	6	1	4	x	18	1	13

The loser of this game would be eliminated from the double elimination bracket as both teams were vying to move up their seed. Indy was looking for revenge for the extra inning loss Boston handed to them in 2008. The trash talking started the night before at 12:30AM in the washroom as Indy's pitcher Darnell Booker was up doing team laundry. Coach Weissman told him to "keep doing laundry instead of getting sleep and by the time he woke up Boston would have a 12 pack on the board." Booker was looking for bulletin board material and on just a few hours sleep he pitched the game of his life. Once again, Boston got off to a slow start as Larry Haile scored in the first and Dino Vasile scored in the second. The bottom half of the Indy line-up did some damage as Steve Michaels and Michael Lewis each scored a pair of runs to lead their club to a 6 run second inning. Boston was struggling on defense as Booker was hitting the sweet spot on everyone. In fact, he faced 21 batters before striking out his only batter of the game. At that point Indy was up 13-6 and Weissman decided he was not going to wait any longer as he made changes that paid off instantly. Quintanilla and Ward entered the game in the 4th inning and they each scored runs to start a 5 run rally as Boston pulled within 2 to make it 13-11. In the 5th inning, Boston got another big rally going as Zuccarello hit a dribbler up the middle and Vasile scored on a grounder toward first base to start things. Shayne Cantan strode to the plate looking to give Boston the lead. He hit a rocket to left field and was stopped by Michael Lewis. Larry Haile and Joe Quintanilla would each then score on line drives before Lewis made another fantastic stop on a ball hit by JJ ward in deep left.

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Indy	AB	R	K	PO
Vasile -LS	6	4	1	3	Johnson	6	1	0	0
S. Cantan -3B/1B	6	2	1	3	Windell	6	2	0	5
Haile -DH	6	4	0	0	J. Michaels	6	3	0	4
Black-DF/MF	0	0	0	1	Brown-DH	5	3	1	0
Buizon -R	2	0	2	0	K. Lewis -DF	0	0	0	1
-Quintanilla -R	4	2	1	1	S. Michaels	5	5	0	0
Inkiala -1B	2	1	0	0	M. Lewis	4	4	0	3
-Ward -1B/3B	3	1	0	0	-Wassen	1	0	0	0
Zuccarello -RS	5	2	0	6

Totals	34	16	5	14	Totals	33	18	1	13

Pitcher- Cochran	34	16	5		Pitcher-Booker
Catcher-Weissman
Caller-Grillo
Spotter- Nippins

Boston clung to a 15-14 lead after 4 1/2 innings after fighting back from a five run deficit but Indy would plate 4 consecutive runs in the bottom frame. Michael Lewis would make another amazing stop in deep left off the bat of Shayne Cantan in the 6th inning which would end the momentum of the Boston bats. In the end Darnell Booker would pitch one of his best games as he earned 18 runs on just 1 strike-out. Steve Michaels would score five times in five trips but the MVP of this game was Michael Lewis who scored in all 4 at bats and he made three huge defensive stops on lasers hit into left field in the 5th and 6th innings. His defense saved this game from going extra innings. Indy would go on to finish 7th place in the World Series after this big win. Boston would go to the 9-12 placement bracket.

Game #13 Boston Tames the Tyler Tigers 13-7

	1	2	3	4	5	6	Runs	Strike-outs	Put-outs
Boston	3	5	2	1	1	1	13	14	6
Tyler	1	1	2	0	2	1	7	12	4

The Tyler Tigers hit the free agent market hard as it picked up Renegade killer Braulio Thorne from Long Island, Mike Patterson from Pennsylvania and a few players from the Cleveland Scrappers. Their starting line-up against Boston would be made up of 50% free agents and 50% Tigers. Despite the pick-ups Tyler limped into this game with an 0-6 record being outscored 71-28 by Colorado, Kansas, Tawian, Bayou City, the Southwest Slammers and Carolina Pride. Boston was over confident after seeing that Tyler averaged less than 5 runs a game after it posted 14.5 runs in its 4 games. Maybe it was the cockiness. Maybe it was the spider infestation on the benches. Maybe it was a lack of focus. Boston looked awful from the moment they stepped on the field. Cochran threw an awful batting practice as most batters could not get the timing down. Weissman stated, it may have been his worst BP ever. Combine the problems Boston had with timing with the fact thousands of spiders invaded their bench and Boston lost focus. Boston would score 2 runs on dribblers by their Hawian rookies and a laser by Larry Haile to spot them a 3-0 lead in the first inning when trouble started. After Renegade killer Braulio Thorne led off with a run scoring pop up to 3rd base, Rosie Reed stepped into the box. Reed hit a weak grounder down the 3rd baseline that Dino Vasile was all over. After he made the play, Matt Nippins was called on to the field and in seconds was calling for the ambulance. Vasile had taken the ball right in the face and would have to leave the game. He would eventually get 6 stitches in his top lip and his World Series would be over. Boston buckled down and plated 5 runs in the 2nd inning as five different hitters scored. Then the focus would be lost. Cochran and most of the line-up would struggle. From the third inning on, Cochran would look like Roger Clemens as he struck out 10 batters and only plated 5 runs.

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Tyler	AB	R	K	PO
Vasile -LS	1	0	1	1	Thorne	3	1	2	1
-Inkiala -RS	3	1	2	1	-Patterson	2	0	1	0
-Buizon -1B	2	0	2	0	R. Reed	2	0	1	0
S. Cantan -3B	5	2	2	0	-Merrick	2	1	0	0
Haile -DH	4	2	0	0	L. Reed	1	0	1	0
Black -DF/MF	0	0	0	0	-Haskett	3	0	3	0
-O'Neill- DH	1	0	1	0	Peebles	4	0	2	1
Quintanilla -R	4	3	0	2	Kirk	4	2	1	2
-Ward -R	1	0	1	0	Christ. Keeley	4	3	1	0
J. Cantan -1B/RS	5	2	3	0
Zuccarello - RS/LS	5

Boston Renegades 2009 Game Results