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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!
Óbuda bats come alive in must win situation
10:01 AM
Third game of the series was played again in cold weather but Brick Factory players brought hot bats to the plate. After wasting a great performance by Xiong Xiabo in Game 2, Óbuda jumped on Sleepwalkers starter Péter Gyurcsek right from the start scoring 4 runs in top of the first inning and they never looked back. Sleepwalkers answered with only one run in the bottom of the first and Jorge Fernandez made it 5-1 in the third inning with a long drive that landed in the woods way behind the right field fence. Giving a comfortable lead early to their ace on the mound the defending champions Brick Factory cruised the rest of the way.
Földessy homers, Sleepwalkers beat Zalabai in series opener
10:06 AMEvery streak comes to an end sooner or later, but it happened at the worst moment for Zsolt Zalabai, who finished the regular season with a 7-0 record.
Miklós Földessy hit a three-run homer, Péter Gyurcsek pitched seven innings effectively and the Szentendre Sleepwalkers beat Zalabai and the Óbuda Brick Factory 8-4 in the series opener.
Sleepwalkers came out swinging in the first inning, Balázs Németh and Imre Illés hit singles then Földessy connected for a homerun, that just skipped off the top of the left-field fence.
Sleepwalkers added a run in top of fourth when Dániel Erdélyi doubled down the right field line scoring Balázs Halmos. But this was answered in the bottom of the inning by Obuda, as Zsolt Zalabai scored on a sac fly by Norbert Goor.
In the fifth the Sleepwalkers scored another two runs with help of shaky Óbuda defense. To make things even, with runner on first base Sleepwalkers centerfielder Miklós Frank dove for a ball (needlessly) but could not make the catch. So that hit by speedy shortstop Peter Luptak turned into a 2-run inside the park homerun instead of a single.
In the seventh inning Brick Factory threatened but Gyurcsek pitched out of a bases loaded jam giving up just one run. And again in the top of the eight Szentendre padded its lead with a two-out rally. Zalabai got two quick outs to start the inning but then gave up a single to Balazs Nemeth and issued back to back walks the next two batters. This time with the bases loaded Foldessy delivered again and hit a two-run single to shallow left field.
Seasoned veteran Attila Várkonyi relieved Gyurcsek in the eighth inning and secured the win for Sleepwalkers.
Last weekend in the Hungarian Cup final Óbuda won with 10 run mercy rule over Szentendre, but we saw a different Sleepwalkers team on the field this Saturday. One week after Cup finals this result is little bit surprising but in case the Sleepwalkers can maintain this level of play it will make the series quite interesting. Right now it’s raining in Budapest but hopefully we don’t have to wait another week to see these teams play another great game. See you on the field tomorrow, play ball!
