2005 Midland Rockhounds (AA)

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5 - 5 in the top of the 8th...let's go Rockhounds

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6 - 5 Midland in the bottom of the 9th!

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haha...I'm listening to the game and the Arkansas announcer is flipping out because the ump supposedly missed the count...they're saying it was 3-2 and the pitcher threw ball 4 and the ump didn't tell the batter to go to first, but the batter made no motion either, so maybe this announcer had the count wrong. At any rate, the batter struck out on the next pitch and Midland won the championship!

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interesting story on Mr. Moneyball, Jeremy Brown:

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/a...milb&fext=.jsp

Jeremy Brown doesn't try to figure it out or make any sense of it. He just got hot. Simple as that.
The Midland RockHounds catcher has no idea why, he's just glad it happened to him and happened when it did. The playoffs are always a good time to start crushing the ball.

Brown did just that in leading the RockHounds to the Texas League title and was named as the winner of the MiLB.com award for Double-A Playoff Performance. Brown batted .419 (13-for-31) with 15 RBIs in nine postseason games. Six of his 13 hits went for extra bases, including three home runs.

The biggest of those home runs was a three-run dinger in the seventh inning of Game 4 of the Texas League Championship Series and gave Midland a 5-3 lead over Arkansas. The Travelers rallied to tie the score in the bottom of the inning, but the momentum had been inalterably shifted. The RockHounds got a run in the top of the eighth inning and held on to finish off the series and win their first title in 30 years.

``I just got hot at the right time, in big situations,'' Brown said matter-of-factly. ``In the playoffs, it seemed like I was coming up at the right time, with men on base.''

The baserunners didn't stay there long once Brown dug in. He went 6-for-15 (.400) and drove in nine runs in the four games it took for Midland to win the best-of-five Championship Series. He also had two home runs and scored five runs. Almost as remarkable is that Brown was behind the plate for all of those nine playoff games.

Good for him.