The Dirtbag's shortstop Danny Espinosa hit a milestone, and we're not talking baseball at all. On April 25th, Mr. Espinosa turned 21 and gave himself a great birthday present: going two for three at the plate with a double, a triple and two walks. The Dirtbags took the game with the final score of 10-3. There was quite a lot of excellent hitting by Shane Peterson (who hit his 6th homerun), Jason Tweedy, TJ Mittelstaedt and Steve Tinoco.
The second game did not go as smoothly as the first game did. It started quite similar when the Dirtbags had a solid 6-2 lead in the third when Jason Corder hit his 10th home run of the season. However, the tables turned when the Tigers lit up starter Vance Worley taking the lead 7-6. David Roberts took over for Worley in the forth, but didn't help the situation out too much. When the fifth inning came to an end, the Tigers were up 10-6. This did not discourage the Dirtbags. They came back swinging. Rylan Sandoval, Danny Espinosa, Jason Cordor, Jason Tweedy and Travis Howell were on a mission and they took over the game 13-10. Nonetheless, this slug-fest was so far from being over. Dirtbag reliever Nick Vincent gave up three runs in the ninth letting the Tigers tie the game. In the bottom of the ninth, Shane Peterson answered the fan's prayers when he hit and hard chopper up the middle to score in the winning run, ending the game 14-13. Close call.
Game three followed along the lines of game two, with one major difference, the 11 innings it went into. Starting pitcher Jake Thompson pitched for 5.2 innings, giving up five earned runs and 10 hits. Nick Vincent came in to relieve him, but didn't have too much luck, giving up one unearned run in the sixth. Right-hand pitcher Bret Lorin came in to clean up the mess. He had two shut out innings to keep the game 6-3 in the sixth. The game started to turn around for the Dirtbags in the eigth inning when Shane Peterson hit a solo home run (his seventh of the season) and Rylan Sandoval hit and RBI, making the score 6-5. In the bottom on the ninth, Jason Cordor hit a clutch one-out single to left field, tying the game and sending it into extra innings. There was not too much action until the bottom of the eleventh when Danny Espinosa started it off by hitting a single up the middle. Rylan Sandoval hit a double and Jason Tweety was intentionally walked when TJ Mittlestaedt came up to the plate with bases loaded. Unfortunately for the Tigers, Mittlestaedt hit a single, allowing Espinosa to come home, winning the game for the Dirtbags. Yet another squeaker.
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