In a great pitcher's duel, the Lookouts win 1- 0. Lookout pitching limited the Carolina Mudcats to a 9 hit shutout.

Catcher Craig Tatum called a good game. SP Sam Lecure (21) lasted 5.1 innings giving up 6 hits. Pitches ranged from 72 to 88 mph. RP Derrik Lutz (38) took control of the rest of the 6th getting 2 strike outs and stranding runners at the corners. He pitched a 1 hit 7th inning with pitch speed maxing out at 91 mph. RP Carlos Fisher (41) comletes a 1 hit 8th inning with pitches ranging from 76 to 94 mph. Closer Josh Roenicke (20) completes the game allowing one single with most pitches in the high 80's to low 90's. 

In the 5th inning, B.J. Szymanski (39) hits a line drive double to the corner of right field. Catcher Craig Tatum (27) gets the game winning RBI to knock in Szymanski, the only run of the game.

Szymanski scores only run of the game.

What I believe to be the play of the game, happened in the 2nd Inning. Here's the setup for the play. Lecure had left a pitch up in the zone for the 1st batter of the inning. That pitch is driven for a double. Lecure then strikes out the next batter for the 1st out of the inning. Michael Griffin (3) helps secure EE's third base position by bobbling a line drive straight into his chest and getting the throw late to 1st. He is credited the error. With men at the corners, Lecure hits the next batter on the very next pitch to load the bases with 1 out.

The upcoming double play probably would not have occurred if not for the slow speed at which Ryan Tucker (26) for the Mudcats tears up the base path. On I believe his third pitch, Tucker hits a bouncer to second leading to the following three pictures.

Picture #1: After a high bouncer knocked straight towards the 2nd baseman, Drew Anderson  (5).......  

The Lookouts get the force out at home....

And Tatum (27) gets the throw to Gutierrez (25) for a force at 1st. Douple play ending the inning. 

This is why I love minor league baseball. In between the 4th and the 5th inning the Mudcats sponsored the "Tighty Whitey race". That's where three people get into one pair of huge underwear and race down to a pilon and back against another team. Last nights race had an injury that required help from the Mudcat's trainers. Evidently the boy in the center tripped while his two friends continued. This created what can only be imagined as the most painful wedgie in the modern baseball era. Only Mr. Redlegs, age 139, can tell us if he has witnessed a worse tragedy of this type over the length of his life.