Amityville's 10-run inning makes Ants of Hillsborough

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The Ant Slayers scored 10 runs in the 7th inning to rally past the Hired Hitmen 12-5 yesterday. The Slayers started the inning off with a solo Pat Burrell home run and capped it off with a three-run Clint Barmes homer. Torii Hunter and Garrett Atkins also homered in the inning. Burrell was 3-4 in the game.

Las Vegas rallied back from a 2-0 deficit in the late innings to secure a 3-2 victory over Blue Ridge. Alex Gordon's triple in the 7th led to the Rats' first run of the game. Then Chris Davis and Richie Sexson hit solo home runs to give the team the lead. Trevor Hoffman sent down the Bombers in order to record his 7th save.

The Landsman brothers battled it out to an 8-7 final in extra innings. Marietta took a 5-3 lead in the 3rd when Brandon Phillips hit a triple that scored Adrian Beltre. Phillips would score on a fielder's choice. D.C. took the lead in the 6th when Casey Kotchman hit a 3-run homer, giving the O-Bombers a 7-5 cushion. D.C. got in trouble the next inning though and Marietta tied it up on an Adrian Gonzalez RBI single. Finally, in the 10th, Marietta won the game on a walk-off single by Brian Giles.

Newark battled back from a 6-0 hole but the Falcons pulled it out. Arkansas led 6-0 in the 6th, but Newark chipped away until they tied it up in the 8th. But David Wright hit a two-run shot that gave the Falcons the lead back in the 9th. Ramon Vazquez hit a solo homer to lead off the 9th for Newark, closing the gap to 8-7, but Bobby Abreu grounded into a double play to end the game.

Jesse Litsch won for just the second time this season as he limited Vancouver to only one run on 5 hits in 7 innings. Litsch improved to 2-10 on the season. Chad Billingsley took a tough loss as he gave up only one earned run (and one unearned) in 5.2 innings. Billingsley struck out 8 while giving up 4 hits and 3 walks.

Joba Chamberlain was spectacular once again striking out 11 in 7 innings, giving up zero runs and 3 hits in a 9-1 Sardine City victory over Philadelphia. Conor Jackson hit two home runs in the game.

Animals tally eighth straight

The Endzone Animals won their eighth straight after a 5-1 shutdown of Vancouver yesterday. Jason Bergmann held the Fist to one run on six hits in seven innings. Magglio Ordonez's three-run homer in the first inning off Jake Peavy gave the Animals the early lead. Peavy struggled in the first, walking two of the first three batters before the homer, but settled in and pitched seven innings, but took his first loss of the year.

New Jersey's Jesse Litsch held the Tampa Bay Plunkers to only three hits and one run in seven innings to earn his first win of the year. Adam LaRoche was 3-4 with a homer and Josh Fields was also 3-4 to lead the Buddah "offense" to the 2-1 win. It was the ninth time (out of 15 games) that the Buddahs were held to less than 3 runs. Jeff Francis pitched a complete game in defeat, surrendering only two runs and nine hits.

Newark once again pounded away on their opponents. This time Marietta was the recipient of a 19-3 drubbing. Chien-Ming Wang once again received a ridiculous amount of run support from the Sugar Bear bats. After only receiving eight runs in support of his first start, Wang got 22 against Sardine City, 18 against Vegas, and now 19 against Marietta. Randy Johnson and Javier Vazquez each had one game of double-digit run support, but other than that the Bears were relatively held in check. "Wang was feeling all down in the dumps before the season after losing to the other pitchers in a poker tournament" said team captain Chipper Jones, "so this is our way of making it up to him."