Canterbury Baseball Club
by Sean Callahan 19 November 2006
Deciding that one extra-inning game in a cold southerly wasn't enough, the Padres sent their second game into extras as well and managed to steal one away from the Mets, coming back from 9-2 down to win 10-9. Yoshimitsu Fuchigami doubled and scored on two wild pitches in the bottom of the ninth to make a winner out of Makoto Saito (1-0) in his pitching debut.
Playing through the southerly that hit in the sixth inning of the first game, the Mets jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning without the aid of a hit.
The Padres pulled two back in the bottom half on Fuchigami's two-run double, but wouldn't score again until the sixth off Chad Denny (2-2).
With Stephen Phillips only lasting an inning on the mound, Saito was an emergency replacement on the mound in the second. The Mets scored three more unearned runs, albeit with two hits, as the Padres made three more errors in the inning, running their total to five in only the second inning.
They made it 9-2 in the third with two more unearned runs, as the Padres made their sixth error of the game.
Saito and his defense settled down and retired 17 of the last 19 batters faced, starting it off by turning a 1-6-3 double play in the fourth. Only Justin Holcroft and Chad Denny would reach base for the Mets for the remainder of the game.
The Mets repayed the unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth, after the Padres insisted on playing through the light drizzle. With one out, three consecutive ground ball errors on the left side led to Craig Murray's infield single with the corners in.
After a strikeout, Denny walked Kunio Kamiya to make it 9-4. Sean Callahan followed with an RBI single, before Phillips lofted a ball in to left that went for a three-base error and pulled the Padres to within one. Fuchigami followed with a game-tying single.
Both Denny and Saito cruised through the seventh and eighth, facing the minimum six batters each.
Denny then lead off the ninth with a boomingtriple double to right center, but never left the base, as his teammates hit two fly balls where hits go to die and Saito struck out Sam Yun to end the inning.
Fuchigami doubled with one out in the ninth. Denny got Chris Moffitt to pop up for the second out, but his 155th and 156th pitches went to the backstop as the Padres claimed their second walk-off win.
Notes: After the Cardinals and Padres combined for ten errors in the morning game, the Mets and Padres did them one better, with eleven errors (albeit in one more inning).
Playing through the southerly that hit in the sixth inning of the first game, the Mets jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning without the aid of a hit.
The Padres pulled two back in the bottom half on Fuchigami's two-run double, but wouldn't score again until the sixth off Chad Denny (2-2).
With Stephen Phillips only lasting an inning on the mound, Saito was an emergency replacement on the mound in the second. The Mets scored three more unearned runs, albeit with two hits, as the Padres made three more errors in the inning, running their total to five in only the second inning.
They made it 9-2 in the third with two more unearned runs, as the Padres made their sixth error of the game.
Saito and his defense settled down and retired 17 of the last 19 batters faced, starting it off by turning a 1-6-3 double play in the fourth. Only Justin Holcroft and Chad Denny would reach base for the Mets for the remainder of the game.
The Mets repayed the unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth, after the Padres insisted on playing through the light drizzle. With one out, three consecutive ground ball errors on the left side led to Craig Murray's infield single with the corners in.
After a strikeout, Denny walked Kunio Kamiya to make it 9-4. Sean Callahan followed with an RBI single, before Phillips lofted a ball in to left that went for a three-base error and pulled the Padres to within one. Fuchigami followed with a game-tying single.
Both Denny and Saito cruised through the seventh and eighth, facing the minimum six batters each.
Denny then lead off the ninth with a booming
Fuchigami doubled with one out in the ninth. Denny got Chris Moffitt to pop up for the second out, but his 155th and 156th pitches went to the backstop as the Padres claimed their second walk-off win.
Notes: After the Cardinals and Padres combined for ten errors in the morning game, the Mets and Padres did them one better, with eleven errors (albeit in one more inning).
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