Go for the sweep, owls!!

JP: "Could not be a better day. 74 degrees and NO chance of rain."

T1:

Chandler Ks, looking
Proctor: F-7, just short of the warning track.

Myers: 3-2 count ... Line shot hits the pitcher (Brooks) and rolls toward the 2nd baseman. Meyers is safe at first. Trainers look at Brooks ... he has a couple of shakey tosses ... then OK ones. He stays in the game.

DiCaprio: 1-1 count ... Ball/low. Myers steals second. Ball. Outside pitch called a strike. Foul back. Wiff!!! Bummer.

No score ... heading to B1.

B1:

Amador pitching.

Jarrett: 3-2 count ... bouncer to Myers. 5-3 ground out.
Netzer: 3-2 count ... foul ... check-swing walk.

Nichting: Ball, Ball, Double opposite field into the LF corner. Netzer scores easily. 1-0, Charlotte.

B1, cont'd:

Mims: 2-2 pitch ... hit sharply to Proctor's left. He dives awkwardly, but the ball somehow goes beneath him into center. RBI. Grrr.

2-0, Charlotte.

B1, cont'd:

Sherer walks on 5 pitches. (Mims stole second during the AB.)

OG mound visit.

B1, cont'd:

Hampton looks at 3rd strike after fouling off a 1-2 pitch.
Smith fouls off a 1-2 pitch, then sends soft two-bouncer to Gray just beyond the infield. 4-3.

2-0 Charlotte ... after 1.

T2:

Gray ... 1st-pitch single to RF!
Sheppard ... Takes two strikes. Ball/outside. Wifff! Bummer.

Sarchet ... 0-2 to 3-2 count ... then Gray is picked off first!! Out at 2nd. Grrrr.!!!

Sarchet then fouls out to Mims in front of the Rice dugout. 5-3. Bummer.

2-0, Charlotte ... heading to B2

B2:

Yett: Popup to Proctor in short LF.
Jones: 1-2 count ... called strike 3!!
Jarrett (Zach, son of NASCAR's Dale Jarrett): 3-2 count popup to Gray in short RF.

JP said Amador threw 35 pitches in the 1st inning and only 7 in the 2nd. He surely threw more than 7 in B2.

2-0, Charlotte ... after 2.

T3:

Warren first-pitch fly out to left-center, nearly to the warning track. F-8.

Wunderlich: Home run off the LF foul pole, just over the fence!! WooHoo!!

2-1, Charlotte.

T3, cont'd:

Chandler ... "A towering shot" into the trees beyond the right-field fence. "Back-to-back jacks" for the second day in a row!! WooHoo!!

Score is 2-2 now

T3, cont'd:

Proctor: Worked the count ... then hit a high flyout to deep right-ish center, nearly to the warning track.

Myers: 3-2 pitch bounced to 3rd. Throw is low, but caught on the short-hop by Charlotte's first-baseman ... just in time to get the out.

Tie game -- 2-2 -- heading to B3.

Wonder when the last time Rice hit back to back HRs in consecutive games was..

B3:

Netzer: First-pitch flyout to LF.
Nichting: 1-2 count single to LF bounces just in front of Wunderlich.

JP says Otto is warming up.

Mims: .... ball way outside. OG mound visit. "Big lead for Nichting. A big threat to steal." Several more throws over to first. "Runner goes!" Two-bounce chop in front of the plate. Easy 2-3 putout.

"And that will be it for Amador." Otto coming in.

B3, cont'd:

Sherer hits Otto's first pitch to the centerfield wall. Chandler collides with the wall just as he was going to catch it. Stand-up triple. Runner scores, of course. Bummer!!

3-2, Charlotte.

B3, cont'd:

Hampton walks on 3-2 pitch. Grrr.
Smith ... first pitch ... low & inside ... bounces past DiCaprio. "Sherer strolls in from third. The 49ers get those two runs back." Grrr.

4-2, Charlotte.

B3, cont'd:

Smith smacks 1-2 pitch back up the middle for an RBI single. Grrr.

5-2, Charlotte.

We were due for a good implosion on the mound!

B3, cont'd:

Yett ... Wiffs on 1-2 pitch, down & in. Whew!!

5-2, Charlotte, after 3.

T4:

DiCaprio: High. Call strike. Ball/outside. Call strike. Routine 6-3 groundout.

Gray: First pitch: ... "Rolled out to 2nd base ... easy play for Netzer."

Sheppard: First-pitch foul out to the catcher. Grrr.

"A very quick, 4-pitch inning for Brooks."

Quick, indeed ... but Brooks threw 7 pitches, JP.

5-2, Charlotte ... heading to B4.

B4:

"First pitch to Jones, the 9 man, just above the leap of Proctor." Single. Grrr.

Jarrett: 3-1 pitch "sliced into right field" just over Warren's head. Double. Runner to 3rd.

Netzer: After fouling off one 1-2 pitch, groundout to Gray. 4-3. Run scores.

6-2, Charlotte

B4, cont'd:

Nichting: Grounder to 3B. Myers looks the runner back to 3rd ... make the throw for the 5-3 out at first.

Mims. Ball, low & inside. ...

Moss coming in to pitch.

First-pitch bouncer to Myers' left. 5-3. Good play!

6-2, Charlotte ... after 4.

Get some runs now, Rice!!!