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Re: Mixed-up positions on lineup card...what happens?
I also broadcast a fun minor-league game that reminded me of the Reds/Mets game from '86 because it involved bringing in outfielders to pitch.
I would later title this game "The Cinco De Mayo Marathon." May 5, 2001 the Vero Beach Dodgers used a couple of outfielders to pitch in a 19 inning game and they still somehow beat the Sarasota Red Sox in one of the craziest games ever. In the 16th when the Dodgers had run out of pitchers for the most part, the manager Bob Mariano asked in the dugout "alright, who had any pitching experience?" Our little, speedy CF Jesus Feliciano thought he was joking and kind of smiled and said that he pitched a couple games in little-league...ha-ha. Next thing he knew he was on the mound trying to preserve a 2-run lead. He threw 2 innings and got out of some ridiculous jams. Sarasota tied the score in the 16th but had the based-loaded and no outs and somehow he got out of it. The final out of the 16th was this ridiculous blast to deep left-center that somehow didn't leave the yard and whoever was out there made this miracle diving grab to send us to the 17th. The RF, Lamont Matthews, came on to pitch the 18th and was even worse than Feliciano but somehow kept the game tied. Then Vero Beach took the lead again in the 19th and they were finally able to get a hold of the orginzational pitching instructor on the phone and ask for special permission to throw a recently injured pitcher in back-to-back games. The specific instructions were that he wasn't allowed to throw on consecutive days and if the coaches had put him in the game without permission and he had gotten injured they would have been in pretty big trouble. So they called the organizational pitching coordinator at 1:30am or whatever and told him that this guy felt fine and they didn't have anyone else left and they finally were allowed to bring in a real pitcher, Shane Nance, to preserve the 3-run lead. Sarasota scored 2 off him in the bottom of the 19th and had the bases-loaded with 1 out and I thought "hear we go again." But somehow Vero Beach got the final outs to win the thing at which point the catcher pretty much just dropped to his knees from exhaustion. Our next game was less than 12 hours later for a Sunday 1:00pm start. Ricardo Rodriguez came 1 out away from a no-hitter against a blurry-eyed group of Sarasota batters. |
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