in a close well played from pitching to defense on both sides, reds scored winning runs on sac.fly 4-3. will go again wed. for game two, reds hung right in there after being down 3-1 going into the bottom 6th. chris quinn had game winning hit. clutch hitting by shepheard and phillips fordians for rbi's.
Tough game to lose - great game to play.....Reds score in bottom of first on SF, and held 1-0 lead until top 5 when Fordians scratched out 2-runs against a tough Ken Zimmer, who threw a complete game, bending but never breaking against the Waterford team......a lead off walk started the bottom of the seventh, as Dwight Partridge worked his way on....stole 2nd and was scarificed to third.....Fordians opted to intentionally walk next two batters, but when relief pitcher Joe Hauser got his second serving to close, the Reds catcher Ron, pulled a Miguel Cabrera and reached across the plate while planted in the box, to lift a Sac Fly to straight away center, to score Partridge ahead of good throw from Fred Phillips. played....Fordians held 3-1 lead in sixth when Red plated two to tie, after Fordians kicked the ball around on a couple of pick off attempts, Hope to see more close, exciting games in this series.
