Vegas and Newark face off in scoring explosion

Wow what a game between the Rat Pack and Sugar Bears Sunday evening. With sweat pouring down their faces, the two teams battled to a 21-19 final as the Sugar Bears missed the two-point conversion with seconds to spare...baseball, right? For the Rats, Jeremy Hermida was 6-6 with 3 runs and 3 RBIs. He becomes the 11th player to have six hits in a single game - a DMBL record. Joe Mauer was 4-7 with 4 RBIs, Placido Polanco and Cesar Izturis each had 3 RBIs, and Ichiro had 3 hits. Meanwhile for the Sugar Bears, Bobby Abreu was 4-4 with 3 RBIs before being mysteriously lifted for a pinch hitter. Four other Sugar Bears had 3 RBIs each. Every starting player got at least one hit. The Rats went up in the game early with a 9-run second inning, taking an early 14-3 lead in the middle of the third, but the Sugar Bears scored 7 in the next two innings to bridge the gap. With a 16-11 lead in the eighth, the Rats gave up 8 runs to the Sugar Bears to give them their first lead of the game, 19-16. But in the top of the ninth, the Sugar Bears fell apart, ceding 5 runs to the Rat Pack, capped off by a Joe Mauer 2-run double. Oh and the Sugar Bears shouldn't have called a draw play when their tight end was wide open in the end zone...

Meanwhile, Tampa Bay's Andy Pettite improved to 7-0 with a 3-hit 10-0 win over Marietta. Pettitte joins Vancouver's Zack Greinke as the only two undefeated starters left in the DMBL. Greinke settled for a no-decision in his game, though the Fist eventually won.

Philadelphia shut down the Hired Hitmen 4-1 to win their 8th straight game. The Endzone Animals have been keeping pace with Vancouver, narrowing the division lead to just 1/2 a game. Brandon Webb improved to 8-4 with 6.2 innings of solid ball, striking out 10 and surrendering only one run on 4 hits. Hillsborough fell to one game under .500 with the loss.

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