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09:38 AMÓbuda – Szentendre: 3-3
In game 6 Óbuda tied the best of seven series. Zsolt Zalabai pitched the complete game and Brick Factory won 8-5 Saturday afternoon. Óbuda scored early and carried a 6 run lead into the sixth innging.
Szentendre almost tied the game in the sixth, scoring five runs, but most of these runs came again on misplays of Brick Factory defense. Team Óbuda added insurance runs in bottom of the eighth and Zalabai preserved the lead.
Game 7 will start 1st November at 11:00 in Szentendre (Izbégi baseball field, Szentendre, Szentlászlói út 160). As Chuck Tanner once said: “It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder losing one.”
Last act of this great series, and last chance to see a great ballgame in Hungary until next spring!
See you at the field!
Szentendre plays cool, Óbuda left frozen in 0-2 hole
05:38 PMOn an unusually cold October weekend game2 of the championship series was started by two veteran pitchers and one of them even managed to complete it. Attila Varkonyi limited the Óbuda offense to 4 hits and one run, struck out seven and was helped by a stellar defense to pitch a complete game. It was a great pitching duel, Xiong Xiabo, the Chinese import of Brick Factory, matched up with Varkonyi through eight innings.
Score was tied 1-1 in the top of the 9th, when Xiabo hit the first batter he faced and was relieved by Zsolt Zalabai. Zalabai pitched well but despite the cold weather there came a defensive meltdown for team Óbuda. After the hit by pitch the next two batters reached base on infield errors, both of them commited by first baseman Jorge Fernandez. In addition to that Sleepwalkers grabbed the lead, scoring on a passed ball. After another passed ball and a balk the bases were empty, so the fans actually cheered a 3 run rally which happened without a basehit. After these misplays Zalabai settled in and retired the next three batters in order.
Balazs Kalocsai started the bottom of the ninth with a basehit, but the Óbuda rally was closed short after Norbert Goor grounded into a 6-4-3 double play. Várkonyi finished the game by striking out Csaba Goor looking.
Seems the cold weather gave the necessary cold blood to Szentendre team to win this nailbiter. After this 4-1 victory Sleepwalkers lead the series 2-0, next game will be played on Sunday 18th, at 11:00 am.
Game2 postponed to next week
06:07 PM
1:30 pm
Rain was over around 1 pm as expected but field conditions could not be improved after all-night rain so umpire József Kiss-Jakab decided to cancel the game.
Game2 will be played next Saturday, 17th October at 1:00 pm.
10:30 am
Today’s game is delayed due to rain. Ground crew is working on the field and we hope the weather forecast will be right and rain zone will pass Budapest by noon. Expected first pitch at 1:30 pm today!
