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[size=18:9d577a16e3][b:9d577a16e3]Game of the Week #7[/b:9d577a16e3][/size:9d577a16e3]
[i:9d577a16e3]05/01/2006 - 05/07/2006[/i:9d577a16e3]

There weren't that many submissions last week, but the final choice between 2 of them was the hardest yet. While the [url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=142&g_id=759]23-inning marathon won by a 9-spot in the 23rd after 22 scoreless innings[/url] was astronomical, and good enough for our first Honorable Mention, I finally decided to go with the following game, purely for the wacky way it ended:

[url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=1083&g_id=48][b:9d577a16e3]GotW #7: Willie Harris steals the win in the 12th[/b:9d577a16e3][/url]

All you really need to know about this game is how the game ended in the bottom of the 12th. Who says speed is overrated?


[b:9d577a16e3]Nominate your SOM 2006 boxscore for Game of the Week #8![/b:9d577a16e3]
Post the URL of the game here; if there's some context that goes with the game, be sure to write that up too. We're considering games for the whole week, Monday through Sunday. And, at the end of the year, we'll pick one game from the list of GotW's whose winning team [b:9d577a16e3]will win a free 1-year subscription to The Sporting News weekly magazine![/b:9d577a16e3]

Game of the Week archive
- [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=76491]GotW #1[/url] - Johan Santana's Opening Day No-No
- [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=79281]GotW #2[/url] - Doug Davis - perfect for a day
- [url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=401&g_id=142]GotW #3[/url] - East Granby Home Wreckers get no-hit, throw a 2-hit shutout
- [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=83995]GotW #4[/url] - 18 innings? No, 20.
- [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=86069]GotW #5[/url] - Chipmunks shut-out Hoosier Daddy for the series
- [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=88528]GotW #6[/url] - 11-10 Thrill Ride in 10

[size=16:b7e40101a5][b:b7e40101a5]Game of the Week #8 nominations below.[/b:b7e40101a5][/size:b7e40101a5]

Pure Excellence II exploded for 11 in the top of the 10th to win a 22-11 decision at the BOB.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=982&g_id=138

Great game, BTW, [quote:a63984151a]Nasal got their 2nd stolen base of
the inning giving[/quote:a63984151a]

[quote:a63984151a]*** BOTTOM OF INNING 12 ***
0 O.Vizquel 3 Strike Out b-0
1 M.Diaz 4 Walk b-1
SUBSTITUTE PR- Willie Harris
1 1 1 Stolen Base 1-2
1 2 1 Stolen Base 2-3
1 3 B.Roberts 1 Ground Out b-0
2 3 D.Wright 0 Int Walk b-1
2 1 3 1 Stolen Base 3-H 1-2
[/quote:a63984151a]

1 1 1 Stolen Base 1-2
1 2 1 Stolen Base 2-3
2 1 3 1 Stolen Base 3-H 1-2

My math might be bad, but 1+1+1 = 3, doesn't it?

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=882&g_id=259

[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=227&g_id=637[/url]

You know what else is weird about the play-by-play account is that it doesn't reveal who was batting when Harris stole home. It just says he does it on the first pitch. It also says he stole second and third earlier on the first pitch each time and then it says that Brian Roberts grounds out on the first pitch, so that can't be entirely right.

Johan Santana used only 99 pitches to blank the San Francisco Seals. Omar Vizquel singled with two outs in the ninth representing the only baserunner the Seals had all day.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=228&g_id=775

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=602&g_id=524