UMEBA: Blowouts(FUBAR), Blowups, and walk offs Sim 21

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August 18, 2043
Mumbai 4 Kuwait City 5 11 INN WALK OFF
Tied at three runs each heading into the ninth both teams scored a single run to push the game to extra innings. Hair doubled to lead off the bottom of the eleventh inning for KC but the next two batter flied out to shallow right field preventing him from moving to third. With two outs Bordonhos dropped a single in front of the centerfielder and Hair beat the throw home for the win.

August 19, 2043
Bucharest 1 CSKA 2 WALK OFF
Starting pitchers dominated from both sides as Rabisca(BUCH) and Collyer(CSKA) each allowed one run over seven innings of work. The Army's Michael Best, who singled in the run in the seventh, led off the bottom of the ninth with a double. One out later Delvalled dribbled a grounder over the second base bag allowing Best to score the winning run from second.

August 20, 2043
Kuwait City 8 Baghdad 9 WALK OFF
The two teams went back and forth for the entire game before settling on an eight to eight tie after nine innings. Seven and a half scoreless innings later and we are still tied at eight heading to the bottom of the seventeenth. Gomez led off with a triple that kicked up chalk down the right field line to put a runner on third with no outs. With the infield in Newhouse slapped a single, his third base knock of the game, between first and second to score Gomez and win the game.

August 21, 2043
Kuwait City 7 Baghdad 8 WALK OFF
KC scored all seven of their runs in the top of the third sending eleven men to the plate. Baghdad would claw its way back into the game scoring three runs in the bottom of the fifth(two on bases loaded walks) and one in the sixth to draw them within one run of the Alhafr. The score would remain 7-6 until the bottom of the ninth when Mosley would follow a one out, Hernandez single with a two run, game ending homer.

Libyan 1 Cairo 2 WALK OFF
Richard and Baez combined for eight innings of four hit baseball as the Generals held on to a one to nothing lead heading into the bottom of the ninth thanks to a Gonzales solo homer in the top of the third. Libyan closer Braddock had a rough outing. He gave up a four pitch, leadoff walk to Campos but caught a break as he was gunned down attempting to advance to third on Castrejon single. A Rectenberg single to right field put runners on first and third anyway. Back to back doubles by Kalik and Flores accounted for the tying and winning runs and Braddock's fifth blown save.

August 24, 2043
Bucharest 1 Kuwait City 2 WALK OFF
This is Bucharest's second 2-1 walk off loss this sim and Kuwait City's fourth walk off it has participated in this sim going 2-2. In this one Kuwait City won on a walk of bases on balls in the bottom of the ninth drawn by pinch hitter Dimiao Laqui who drew the four pitch free pass with two outs.

Jerusalem 4 Baghdad 5 17 INN WALK OFF
The Kings won their second 17 inning affair of the sim and this one was similar to the first. The teams were tied at four runs after eight innings and the bullpens took over and pitched eight and a half innings of scoreless baseball until the bottom of the seventeenth. Robbie Cook, pitching in his fourth inning of relief, allowed a double, an intentional pass, and the game winning single to Mosely without retiring a batter. Canales pitched three scoreless innings for Baghdad for the win.