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[size=18:0a0ff54d2f][b:0a0ff54d2f]Game of the Week #9[/b:0a0ff54d2f][/size:0a0ff54d2f]
[i:0a0ff54d2f]05/15/2006 - 05/21/2006[/i:0a0ff54d2f]

Albert announces: this game needs to end.

[url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=382&g_id=868][b:0a0ff54d2f]GotW #9: Pujols crushes 3 HRs; 2 in the 10th[/b:0a0ff54d2f][/url]

Pujols hitting 3 homers in a game is nothing new. But hitting 3 homers, with TWO 2-run shots in a 9-run top of the 10th, is legendary. It seemed almost too obvious to give the Game MVP recognition to Albert, so instead it was awarded to Jose Reyes for managing to draw a walk in the game.


[b:0a0ff54d2f]Nominate your SOM 2006 boxscore for Game of the Week #10![/b:0a0ff54d2f]
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:0a0ff54d2f]will win a free 1-year subscription to The Sporting News weekly magazine![/b:0a0ff54d2f]

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
- [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=90633]GotW #7[/url] - Willie Harris steals the win in the 12th
- [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=92696]GotW #8[/url] - Dweebs turn Triple Play, come back vs. Wagner

[size=16:c418c0c0c3][b:c418c0c0c3]Game of the Week #10 nominations below.[/b:c418c0c0c3][/size:c418c0c0c3]

Roger Clemens gets blasted twice by a guy ("W" power) who has a 1 in 96 chance chance of hitting a homer vs rhp. (probably a one in 600 chance of hitting 2 in a game)

Eric Chavez also blasts 2 including the 10th inning game winner.

But this didnt happen until David Wright was thrown out at the plate in the top of the 10th. With the bad arms in my outfield and 2 outs, he had an 85 to 95% chance of scoring!!!

Sometimes the stars just align right.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=1542&g_id=27

The Horace Mann Lions enter Game 157 needing one victory to clinch the division title. Almost by themselves, Carlos Zambrano and Jason Lane step up and carry the Lions to victory and the division championship. Lane hits for the cycle, and Zambrano pitches a complete game shutout.


http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=181&g_id=939

16 inning affair, tied in the bottom of the 9th with a run scored with 2 outs, both teams score in the 12th, and the 15th, to finally have it won in the bottom of the 16th, teams use a total of 16 pitchers combined, game winning hit came from the "catcher" who was a pinch hit replacment that ended up getting 4 at bats and playing 7 innings at catcher even though he doesn't have a catcher rating

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=1101&g_id=325

Jay Gibbons wins back to back extra inning games with walkoff homeruns:

[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=541&g_id=837[/url]

and

[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=541&g_id=843[/url]

David Ortiz hit 3 homeruns to lead the Lisle Cheetahs to an 11-8 victory over the Polo Ground Bums. His first was a 2 run shot in the first inning. Later, he hit a 3 run dinger in the 5th, capping the day off with a solo shot in the 7th. Papi was 4 for 5 on the day with 6 rbis.

I am going to nominate this game.
This game isn't mine, but happened in our league.

The Spook Hill Stumbledrunks beat the Pennsylvania Plague III 23-20 in 9 innings.

Factoids: 13 Homeruns in game (3 by Vlad Guerrero)
20 Extra Base hits
44 Hits
43 Runs

http://members.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=1302&g_id=236

Ortiz gets 8 RBIs too, and team had a ten run fifth inning

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/boxscore.html?group_id=901&g_id=646