Ben Sheets continued his domination against the Atlanta Braves last night, going the complete nine innings, only allowing one run and striking out 7 as the Brew Crew took the first of a three game set from the Braves 4-1. Mike "The Cheater" Cameron hit a home run in the second inning and the Brewers tacked on two more in the third to stretch its lead to 4-0. (By the way, can someone check Cameron's urine for more steriods?) After Brian McCann plated a run via a GIDP, Ben Sheets then sat down the last 16 Braves to come to the plate. WOW. Ben Sheets OWNS the Braves and every time he takes the hill, the Braves should just wave the white flag and move along.
One effort that won't get mentioned much, (but will here) is what the Braves Bullpen, Jeff Bennett in particular did. Coming in for Jo-Jo they silenced the Brewers' bats and gave the Braves a chance, but the offense did nothing with the chance.
Rookie Charlie Morton gets his first home start tonight. Nice. Hopefully he can give another quality start and get the Braves a W. As poorly as they have played, they ARE only 4.5 GB. They have to have a run left in them, don't they?
Now then, ON TO THE DAWGS! The Georgia baseball team is only ONE WIN AWAY from a National Championship after they rallied twice last night to win against Fres-NO state 7-6. The Dawgs got one in the first then added another tie-breaking run to take a 2-1 lead a few innings later. Trevor Holder, the Dawgs' ace had trouble with the bottom three of the order, giving up a solo shot to #9 in the order and walked the #7 then served up a gopher ball to the #8 hitter to put the Dawgs in a hole 3-2. Georgia would tie it up as some of their big boys (BMass and Rich Poythress) thundered around to score on several plays late.
Then All-American Gordon Beckham broke the UGA home run career record with his 52nd of his career in the bottom of the 8th, after the UGA bullpen had given up three runs.
Funny thing is, even though the Dawgs fell behind, I don't think they panicked and I didn't either, because they had done this all CWS. Poythress tied the game at 6 on a Matt Cerione basehit (nice to see him recover after going 0-5 with 5Ks vs. Stanford) and then Cerione scored on a chopper that hit secondbase and rolled into the outfield.
And Josh Fields set them down 1-2-3 in the ninth for his 18th save. When it IS a save situation, he is amazing.
And the biggest stat that everyone should pay attention to tonight is NOT Frez-NO's 4-0 record in elimination games, but UGA's 5-1 record in "Foot-on-the-throat" games, as in games where they can eliminate the OTHER team. They knocked out Louisville, Lipscomb, GT, lost once to NCState in a f-o-t-t game, then beat them, then knocked out Stanford. And in elimination games during the run, FSU's 4-0 is nice, but UGA is 5-0, for the record. but ESPN hasn't pointed that out, but I am sure they will IF Frez-NO somehow wins tonight.) The killer attitude that UGA is playing with right now HAS to be in the heads of the "Underdog to Wonderdog" Fresno State Bulldogs. The clock is at midnight for the bulldogs of the west and the Dawgs are about to pee on the Fresno Pumpkin!
A writer for the ABH says that it is UGA's destiny to win this CWS. After last night, despite trailing in the bottom of the 8th, I knew they would come back. AND THEY DID. It may JUST be in the cards. With Nick Montgomery on the Hill for the Dawgs, we might just see a Dawg pile tonight in Omaha and the YEAR OF THE DAWG will continue!
GO DAWGS!
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