UMEBA: Blowouts(FUBAR), Blowups, and walk offs Sim 11

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June 9, 2043
Athens 12 Beirut 0 BLOW OUT
Maxim Makin was on point today pitching 7.2 innings of three hit baseball but the bats Athens bats were the big story. Quint Coppard led the Fighting Centaurs with four hits, all singles, and three RBI. Of their 15 hits only three were for extra bases and two of those, a double and a homer, were courtesy of George Woolridge who also had four RBI. The Cedars left seven men on base.

June 10, 2043
Libyan 0 Jerusalem 11 BLOW OUT
The Generals are no strangers to being blown out as this is their league high fourth time on the wrong end of a 10 run loss. The Hebrew Hammers scored in seven of eight innings and boasted homers by five different players. Everyone in the lineup contributed as least one hit with six of them finishing with multiple. Villarreal and Cook combined for the shutout as Libyan could only muster three singles and three walks leaving five on base.

June 12, 2043
Baghdad 10 Athens 11 13 INN WALK OFF
This game had a little of everything as there was scoring in every inning through 10 before we had a scoreless 11th and 12th. Athens was lucky to win after leaving a whopping 20 men on base for the game. The Fighting Centaurs walked off on a two out double by Honma to score Coppard. The Kings stayed in the game with smoke, mirrors, and timely homers as they managed just 18 base runners compared to 30 for Athens. 13 pitchers appeared in the game with Diaz pitching three scoreless innings in relief for the win.

June 14, 2043
Beirut 6 Istanbul 7 14 INN WALK OFF
The teams were tied at four entering the 12th inning where things got interesting. The Istanbul crowd began filing out of the stadium when the Cedars scored two runs on a homer by Marino. The Bosphorus then sent seven men to the plate in the bottom of the inning and scored two, two out runs on a Gutierrez single to keep the game going. In the bottom of the 14th Oh III took the first pitch of the inning and ended the game with a walk off homer to left center.

Cairo 4 Jerusalem 5 WALK OFF
Each team score three runs over the last two innings but it was a David Hall homer, his 33rd of the season, that won the game for the Hebrew Hammers. Each team pounded out 12 hits as eight players combined had more than one. The pitching was good enough to keep things close as each club stranded a fair share of runners on base.

June 15, 2043
Kuwait City 5 CSKA 6 10 INN WALK OFF
Kuwait City scored two in the seventh and two in the eighth to take a 5-3 lead. The Army battled back in the bottom of the eighth to tie it with two runs of their own. In the bottom of the 10th Ruttan hit a lead off homer to end the game for CSKA. Kuwait City managed just five hits in the game and scored all five of their runs on three homers while CSKA 10 hits, a walk, and three hit batters while leaving seven men on base.