GAMES OF JULY 25th

A couple of good, close games this morning.

Game 1-- Appell 8, Hewes 6
Appell's team built an 8-1 lead and survived a late onslaught to win. A disputed call on a diving no-catch by Alex Rivera opened the floodgates in the 3rd inning, as Appell's team scored five times, keyed by Appell's 2-run single. Eric Schulman hit a 2-run HR down the LF line in the next inning, and it looked grim for Hewes's side. They scored 5 times in the fifth, however, including an Alex Rivera 3-run HR, and closed within 2. The tying run came to bat in each of the next two innings but Appell (1-3) slammed the door.

Game 2-- Parfrey 5, O'Connor 4
This game had an even more thrilling finish. With two outs in the 5th, Zach Nilva tripled to right-center and came around to score when the relay to third was off-line. This tied the game at 3, but Ian Lebowitz led off the top of the 6th with a line drive HR to deep left (his first since 2003!) to give Jim O'Connor a 4-3 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Havelock Hewes and Paul Geoghan had successive 2-out RBI singles, plating the tying and eventual winning runs. Parfrey (9-5) pitched a 1-2-3 7th for the win, and allowed only 5 hits overall, but walked 6, adding to his reputation as the Ollie Perez of SFLOI. Zach Nilva had 3 hits and scored 3 runs for the winners.