April 25 at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, TX
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The Atlantic League got its season underway this weekend, and these two teams are together for a rematch of last season's championship series. Lancaster won that best-of-3, but the first set of 2015 has gone Sugar Land's way.
The Skeeters got a tying solo home run from Denny Almonte in the fifth and the go-ahead solo shot by Beamer Weems in the sixth to win 2-1. Both were lead off shots against starter and losing pitcher P.J. Walters, who spent five years in the big leagues with three teams, with Weems taking the first pitch he saw from the right-hander and smacking it over the left field wall.
Lancaster had taken a 1-0 lead on Blake Gailan's third-inning RBI-single that hit first base umpire David Frame and halted the game briefly while Frame was attended to. Skeeters' starter Matt Wright, who also serves as an assistant pitching coach (independent league baseball!), allowed just that one run and he and five different relievers teamed up to hold Lancaster scoreless over the final six innings.
Beamer!
Weems, who added a double on Saturday, also became our first Webb Bobo all star from the independent ranks.
Independent League baseball: Major League Baseball Phrases
A nice night of phrases and complete nonsense (cn) for the broadcast team of Ira Liebman and Brett Dolan.
Liebman
"Smooth as silk"
"Big, fat pitch"
"Ran out of real estate"
"Behind the dish"
"Big, fat count"
"Hopefully the rain, rain goes away and won't come back for another few days" (cn)
Dolan
"Hitter's paradise"
"That's when they made a lot of hay" (cn)
"Old timey windup"
"Backdoor variety"
"Mother nature cooperating"
"The hat went flying, the hair went poof" (cn)
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