A third of a game in one inning

Last night was the third in a four game series with the Salt Lake Bees. The Bees have had a very strong season, until Wednesday they led the league with their record. The Cats

Kirk Saarloos pitched a strong eight innings with only 92 pitches and Jeff Gray came in in the ninth but ended up offering 28 pitches(18 of them strikes) to get the three outs. Gray had to face five batters. We got our runs early with two in the first, one in the second and one in the third. But then as one of our seatmates calls them "Those darn Bees" came back with two in the fifth and one in the seventh. In the ninth, Gray got the first two out easily, but the next three were a bit tougher. His last batter took a lot of foul cuts before being called out on strikes.

There are seventeen game days left, but there are a couple of make up games in that schedule. We are currently 9 1/2 games up on Las Vegas which leaves us with a magic number of 10. We have one more game against Salt Lake, tonight and then a series against the Tacoma Raniers. We then go on a nine day road trip (Grizzlies and Raniers) to finish up at home with the Grizzlies.