Canterbury Baseball Club
by Sean Callahan 11 December 2005
Joshua Batchelor pitched a five-hit complete game to defeat Sam Ballinger and the Angels, 8-2 in the second game of the Sunday doubleheader. Allen Hu tied it with a two-run single in the sixth and Scott Woyak's four-run, four-base error gave them a 6-2 lead.
Ballinger was dominant through five, needing just 59 pitches. He gave up just two hits and one walk, while retiring the side in order twice.
It was different in the sixth, as he ran out of gas [Need to do more running, Sam. ed.], surrendering six runs, three hits and two walks. Stephen Phillips and Batchelor lead off with singles and moved up 90 feet on a wild pitch, to remove the double play. Allen Hu drove a 3-1 pitch to right for a two-run single and a tied ball game.
Back-to-back walks loaded the bases before Ballinger struck out Nicholas Batchelor and Mike Bucher. Woyak drove 1-0 pitch to right-center that Yoshimitsu Fuchigami couldn't hold in his glove, leading to four more runs and a 6-2 White Sox lead. Two more runs off Ryota Kadowaki in the seventh made it 8-2
Batchelor worked out of self-induced trouble in the first two innings. Three walks in the first led to one run, before he struck out Andy Alsop with the bases loaded. In the second, a walk and a single looked to have another rally started for the Angels, but Sean Callahan couldn't get the sacrifice down and struck out. Abraham Garza and Shaun Kim then both got thrown out trying to steal third.
An unearned run in the third made it 2-0, but Batchelor was lights out after that, surrendering just two hits and one walk, while retiring the side in order to end the game.
Notes: There were almost as many Yankees on the "White Sox" as White Sox, with four Yankees filling out the White Sox lineup.
Michael Bucher had the distinction of being the first person thrown out at first from right field, as Callum Muir gunned him out on what looked to be a lead-off single in the fifth.
Ballinger was dominant through five, needing just 59 pitches. He gave up just two hits and one walk, while retiring the side in order twice.
It was different in the sixth, as he ran out of gas [Need to do more running, Sam. ed.], surrendering six runs, three hits and two walks. Stephen Phillips and Batchelor lead off with singles and moved up 90 feet on a wild pitch, to remove the double play. Allen Hu drove a 3-1 pitch to right for a two-run single and a tied ball game.
Back-to-back walks loaded the bases before Ballinger struck out Nicholas Batchelor and Mike Bucher. Woyak drove 1-0 pitch to right-center that Yoshimitsu Fuchigami couldn't hold in his glove, leading to four more runs and a 6-2 White Sox lead. Two more runs off Ryota Kadowaki in the seventh made it 8-2
Batchelor worked out of self-induced trouble in the first two innings. Three walks in the first led to one run, before he struck out Andy Alsop with the bases loaded. In the second, a walk and a single looked to have another rally started for the Angels, but Sean Callahan couldn't get the sacrifice down and struck out. Abraham Garza and Shaun Kim then both got thrown out trying to steal third.
An unearned run in the third made it 2-0, but Batchelor was lights out after that, surrendering just two hits and one walk, while retiring the side in order to end the game.
Notes: There were almost as many Yankees on the "White Sox" as White Sox, with four Yankees filling out the White Sox lineup.
Michael Bucher had the distinction of being the first person thrown out at first from right field, as Callum Muir gunned him out on what looked to be a lead-off single in the fifth.
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