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09/04/2005 Archived Entry: "Mexican League News : Championship Series Coverage, Tigers on the Lead Again"
By Carlos Fragoso
Tigers get wild with Saltillo after being scored 6 times in the 2nd inning, and it seemed that Sarape Makers will have a holiday, when were ambushed for those wild Tigers, who delivered a tremendous 20 hits and 19 runs offensive to beat them up 19-10.
Yes, you read it well, a surprising score ,not typical to this series when pitching are well tune up, but also tired enough not to get batters out.
Big Tiger, MATIAS CARRILLO with a 6-5 , 3 ribbies night, and batting champ, JAVIER ROBLES with 4-3 and 4 ribbies led their team and supported winner JESUS GUZMAN, who went 2.1 innings in relief , allowing 4 hits and 2 runs, afterwards, EDGAR HUERTA, BAUDEL ZAMBRANO and ADRIAN MANZANO allowed no runs in the rest of the game ( 2.2 innings ) to zipped up things in favor of Tigers.
ALBINO CONTRERAS, also had a good hitting night going 5-4, 4 ribbies with a 2 men on home run in the 2nd inning when Tigers scored 3 runs.
For Saltillo, starter STEVE BOURGEOIS, who early in the game declared to be concerned about his properties down in his native and devastated city of New Orleans, was attacked with 7 hits and 7 runs in only 3 innings of work, including 2 hoMe runs by, JAVIER ROBLES and GUILLERMO VELAZQUEZ who is playing first base in replacing of sidelined JORGE VAZQUEZ .
After him a total of 9 MORE RELIEVERS WERE USED trying to contain Tigers offensive, without success.
However, relief pitcher ALEJANDRO RIOS the loser, went only 0.1 inning and earning 1 run ,the tie breaking one , when score was tied at 8.
4 Mexican League records were tied up in this game, first Carrillo with his 5 hits game, Tigers with their 19 runs scored , Saltillo by using as many as 10 pitchers, and also combined with the 6 pitchers Tigers used tied up the record of 16 pitchers used by both teams.
SCOREBOARD
TIGERS 034 104 160 19 20 1
SALTILLO 006 200 200 10 18 2
Alex Armenta, Cecilio Garibaldi (3), Jesus Guzmán (5), Edgar Huerta (7) Baudel Zambrano (7), Adrian Manzano (9) and Adan Muñoz; Steve Bourgeois, Mario Mendoza (4), Miguel Angel Ruiz (4), Alejandro Ríos (5), Tomas Melgarejo (6), Miguel Pérez (6), Hector Almonte (7), Jose Mercedes (8), Miguel Duarte (8), Oscar Rivera (9) and Noe Muñoz;
WP: Jesus Guzmán 2-0
LP: Alejandro Ríos 0-1
HR: Contreras (1), Velázquez (1), Robles (3) TIG. J Muñoz (1), N Muñoz (1) SAL
