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Oh, welcome to Dominique O'Field.
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Thomas West here alongside Zach Benoit.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are taking on the Brantford Red Sox in what could be the last game of playoff clinching interest, dare I say.
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The Brantford Red Sox must win out, and the Barry Baycats must lose out for them to have any chance of making the playoffs this season.
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So the magic number for Barry right now is one.
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But with a Toronto Maple Leafs win, there are no more magic numbers left on the board in the Canadian Baseball League.
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Zach, obviously the odds are long, but Brantford will fight right to the very end.
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And of course, they would love to start with a win here today against the Maple Leafs.
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Yeah, the magic the magic number in wins column was 24.
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Brantford currently, or excuse me, Barry currently sitting 24 and 17.
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Brantford sitting at 15 and 24.
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To get to the 500 mark, you need to have that win streak where you just don't lose.
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It's very slim, but it is just something so interesting to talk about.
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You gotta give a lot of credit to the Brantford Red Sox.
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They've been playing a lot better brand of baseballs of late.
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They're 5-5 in the last 10, currently on a two-game win streak.
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The thing that's been propelling them is the home record.
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They're 11 and 10, 11 and 9 on the year, 4 and 15 on the road.
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That's kind of where things have been a little bit shaky.
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While they're on the road here, let's see how they test against the Maple Leafs.
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Things are about to look a little bit interesting on your screen right now.
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This is the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup today, and they've been battling some injuries and just trying to, you know, get everyone to lineup and fill out a lineup card here that came right down to the wire today.
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We had some last minute changes, but this is the lineup for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Spencer Ross is the shortstop today, something he hasn't done since right at the beginning of the season.
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He's leading things off.
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Yasil Puig is at DH, followed by Jordon Mandalay.
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Lots of lineup protection there for Puig with Jordan Mandalay, and we'll get more to on Yasigel Puig in just a moment.
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JJ Dutton is hitting the cleanup spot, followed by Marcus Connect, Dennis Devanning.
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Matt Brandt, who's the third baseman today for the Toronto Maple Leafs, something we haven't seen much at all this season.
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Kyle Pops, who's a pitcher, two-way player, but primarily a pitcher on the Toronto Maple Leafs, is doing the catching, and of course Brantford knows that because they saw him uh face them behind the dish last time these two teams met.
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And Ben Siderenios, who's been an outfielder for a lot of this season, is playing first base today for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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So it should be a little bit interesting defensively today to see how this thing pans out.
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I mean, hey, whatever works, works.
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It gets to the point of the season where a lot of guys are kind of, like you said, fighting those injuries, playing a little bit banged up.
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It's that next man up mentality of say, you know what, we have a guy down today, I'll go play third base, I'll go play catcher, I'll go play first, and vice versa.
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Really, that's kind of what's gotten to the point here of the season for the Mabel Leaves, is they try to continue to fight through and just get towards the end of the year.
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So Yassi L.
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Puig is the guy that you see warming up right there, chatting with Dennis De Banning.
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He is, well, we presume is the DH, but there's been a lot of lineup changes, so you never you never know.
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It might come right down to the lineup, but Yassi L Puig uh is the attraction here tonight because he is on the verge of doing something that nobody has ever done in the Canadian Baseball League.
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And I'm talking about, well, Intercounty Baseball League as well.
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I'm talking about Sean Riley's 21 home run record that he had.
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Now, there's a lot to break down, so I think we can get kind of get into the weeds on this.
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You know, obviously the the big asterisk is that there's more games being played this season, but I I just don't think that's gonna be a big factor because there's gonna be 48 games for the foreseeable future of the Canadian Baseball League.
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But even with that being said, Yassiel Puig is at 17 home runs right now, and since the Toronto Main Beliefs have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, it'll be very fun down the stretch to see how many home runs Puig can hit.
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And can he get to that Sean Riley season uh that we saw back in 2013 when he was playing for the Guelph Royals?
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Because it was unbelievable.
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21 home runs in just 34 games.
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He didn't even play all the games of a shorter season in the intercounty baseball league, the 60 RBIs, the 404 average.
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A strong finish by Yassio Puig, though, and he's gonna have numbers that look just like that 2013 season from Sean Riley.
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Well, Yassio Puig has been tremendous for the Maple Leafs all season long.
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I mean, you look at kind of the numbers that he has, the the percentiles that he is.
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He's in the 95th percent 95th percentile with average, he's in the 100th percentile for OPS and for slugging percentage.
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Slugging's at 838 on the year for him, the on-base percentage at 491.
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The biggest thing is uh he doesn't hit ground balls.
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Only 28.7% of the time is he hitting a ground ball.
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Everything is elevated, everything is hard contact by contact quality.
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He's 39% of the time, it's hard, and it's flying out of the ballpark, and he he's done a good job as well at really kind of pushing the ball to all parts of the field, whether it be pull, up the middle, or oppo, the numbers really speak for themselves.
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The one really interesting factor that I was kind of looking at is what a he sees versus lefties and righties.
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We see his numbers, they've been so good all year long.
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Against righties, he's battened 418, which is not surprising.
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You know, the numbers kind of speak for themselves.
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Lefties, though, only 270.
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And that that's kind of the number that that really surprises me with how well and how good the numbers are this year for him.
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Maybe the biggest numbers are what Yassi Alpweek has done at Dominico Field this season.
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Three of the 17 home runs have come on the road, and all the others have been here at Christie Pitts.
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So if he wants to break that record, I mean there aren't a lot of home games left for the Toronto Maple Leaf.
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So one or two tonight would put him well on the way.
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And of course, uh, you know, on the personal side for me, I predicted 25 and a half was gonna be the total for the season.
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So obviously, uh I'm rooting for a correct prediction from the very beginning of the season.
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That would be a big number, but I think what most fans are looking at right now is uh can he get that 21 that would tie the record with Sean Riley?
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And we've seen him hit three home runs in a game here before uh a couple months ago, so it's certainly within reach.
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Now, if the main attraction on the Maple Leaf side of things lately has been Yassi Alpweig and the home run watch on the other side of things for the Brantford Red Sox, it's been Christian Ortega because he has been playing really, really well.
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I mean, look at some of the numbers that he's put up this season.
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You know, in a ballpark that's a little bit harder to hit home runs.
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He's got 12 of them, so he's not completely out of the race yet.
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And even if he doesn't catch Yassiel Puig for top spot, he's top five right now.
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He's in fifth place with tell 12 home runs.
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And both Yassiel Puig and Christian Ortega, believe it or not, as they face off here today, are tied with 45 RBI sitting in the number five spot.
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So uh lots of personal competition, and I'm sure of course uh Ortega, even though the playoff odds are unlikely.
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You know baseball players love to finish strong, and he would love to be in that top five category in both of those two things I just mentioned if he could.
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Yeah, and you know, you mentioned that 10 the 10-game hit streak that he comes into this one riding.
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Uh, over the last seven days, he has an OPS that's above 1400.
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1.437 is the OPS, and he is really just barreling up everything as of late.
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The numbers, really speaking for themselves, as a hitter here for Ortega.
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He's just a really smart battery goes up with a plan, and it kind of just feels like as a pitcher, you gotta think, do I want to attack him or do I want to try to go work around him?
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And you can't really be in that middle ground, that gray area.
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You have to attack, or you either have to just let him take a base, because well, he's been deadly really all year long.
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So we'll see what happens.
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I mean, the Brantford Red Sox, this is a big game for them.
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They uh want to keep winning if they can as we take a look at their lineup today.
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No one else playing except these two teams, so this is the main attraction tonight.
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It's Jacob Cantor, the shortstop, who's leading things off for the Brantford Red Sox.
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He's followed by Brody Black, the right fielder.
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And then it's Chris Ortega who's playing first base, and can he get himself on the home run board tonight and challenge that top five?
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The catcher is Andrew Savage in the cleanup spot.
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He's had a great season, as well as Tim Holk, who's the third baseman.
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Christian Kuzemka is getting the start today at DH.
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And then the bottom three in the lineup is Francisco Martinez, the left fielder, Lucas Lefebvre at second base, and Walker Hulkren, who's playing center field today for the Brantford Red Sox, and a big game for them.
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We are going to break, and on the other side, we will have the national anthem here at Christie Fence.
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One, two, and this one's crushed in the air, deep to center field, and it is off the wall.
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Ortega into second base with a double.
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One run comes in to score, and Brantford takes the lead.
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Now Savage smashes one in the air.
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This one's deep to right, and it is off the very top of the wall.
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Marcus Connect gets it back in.
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Here's a throw to second base.
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In time, they got him.
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It does cash in another run.
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It's 2-0 Brantford, and that little short relay by Jordan Mandele worked out perfectly for Toronto.
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Here's the 2-1.
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Tim Hulk rips this one in the air.
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This is gonna stay fair and go off the wall.
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It rolls into the corner.
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Another run comes in to score.
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Tim Hulk has an RBI double, and it's 3-0 Brantford Red Sox.
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And boy, they are hitting the ball all over the field here in this first inning.
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And he hits one in the air.
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This one's high and deep to left field.
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Dennis DeBannon going back to the wall, and it is gone.
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Oh, wall scraper for Kuzemka able to sneak one over the left field brewery sign in left field.
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And Brantford takes a 5-0 lead here in the first.
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Be wary of the wildness as well.
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The one-two.
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Inside and it hit him.
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Oh, that hit Marcus Connect right on the forearm.
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That could not have felt good.
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He is flexing his hand as he walks back towards the dugout.
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This will plate a run for the Maple Leafs, but an already very injured Maple Leafs team cannot afford this to be anything serious for their veteran outfielder.
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You'd have to imagine that Brant gets another fastball here.
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3-1.
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Oh yeah.
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Miss down and in.
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Ball four.
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That's gonna push across a run.
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So the Maple Leafs have two.
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And this one's crushed high in the air, deep to left field, and there's no doubt about it.
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Andrew Savage with a shot that was hammered to left.
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And the Brantford Red Sox put up a big three spot here in the second inning.
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It's eight to two.
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Big high pressure pitch from Serrata.
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Runners on the move.
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Padia lines it into the outfield.
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That's a base hit.
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This will cash in run.
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Here comes the second to the plate, and CL Pee comes in to score as well.
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Milky Padia comes off the bench and delivers a two-run single for the Maple Leafs.
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Christian Kuzemka.
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Base is loaded.
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Hammers one in the air, deep to left field, and Christian Kuzemka has blown this one wide open.
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Another moon shot for the Brantford Red Sox.
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They've got 12 here in the fourth.
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That's a grand slam for Kuzemka.
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Breaking ball that time.
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Now the count's two and two.
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And now big hammer's into the air.
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Deep to left field.
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And that is number 18 of the season, Peresio.
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Well, you have to move frustration and not swinging, or if it was called a strike.
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I think it was not swinging.
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And he answered the call the very next pitch, just destroying it over the left field wall.
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And he took out that frustration on the baseball.
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Here's the 0-2.
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And this one's laced in the air.
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High and deep to right field, and it is gone.
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That is an opposite field home run for Brody Black.
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And it's 14 to 6.
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Ross chops one on the ground.
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Slow bouncing ball to second.
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Play to first in time to get Ross.
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Run comes in to score.
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Base is loaded here in the fifth.
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Vandala hits one on the ground.
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14 to 8 now in the bottom of the fifth.
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Canadian hits one up the middle.
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Broken bat flare into the upfield for a basement.
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Now we'll come out at least to one of JJ Denton.
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We'll get this one in.
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Throw to the plate, come off my go-co.
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And it's a three-run ball game now at the pit.
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First pitch to the SEL.
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Anyway, looking at the final season.
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The one-two.
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Hit on the ground.
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Brandt has it.
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He's coming home.
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Throw bounces to home plate.
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Bobbled by Pops.
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He has it.
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The runner is safe at home plate.
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The base is still loaded, and Kyle Pops got run over as he tried to pick up the baseball.
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Two and two on Savage.
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The fans trying to help Luis Florentino get out of this.
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Savage lines it into the upfield for a base hit.
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This one's gonna roll towards the corner.
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It will plate at least two runs.
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It's gonna go down as a long single for Savage, and it's 18-13 here at the Pitts.
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Dead red fastball.
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Hulk hammers one in the air.
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This one's deep to left field, and it's way out of here.
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Actually, that was Christian Kuzemka who got a hold of it.
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That is his third home run of the night.
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And this one's hit in the air.
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This one's high and deep to right field, and it is.
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Oh, that is gone.
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It clears the wall.
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It's getting dark here at the pits.
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22 runs now for the Brampton Red Sox.
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Here's the 2-2 to De Banning.
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Hit in the air to center field on a line, and it falls for a base hit.
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RBI single Dennis De Banning.
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And it is 22 to 14.
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It's past your bagtime, Mr.
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West.
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Brant lines went into center field for a base hit.
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This will cash in another run for the Toronto Maple Leaves, and it's misplayed in center field.
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Brandt will cruise into second base.
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He has himself an RBI double, and it's 22 to 16.
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The 01.
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Cedranios chops one on the ground.
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Tough play at third base.
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Hole throws on the run and makes it.
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Another run comes in to score, so it's 22 to 17 now.
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On the ground, and this one is a sliding play at second base, and there's no play at first.
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Another run comes in to score.
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AJ Karasis sliding there with a good effort, but he gets on.
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They might have to go to it.
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A second.
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And that will end the ball game.
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AJ Karasis is able to pick that one up and step on the bag a 40 run night here at the pits.
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Oh, welcome to Dominique O'Field.
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Thomas West here alongside Zach Benoit.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are taking on the Brantford Red Sox in what could be the last game of playoff clinching interest, dare I say.
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The Brantford Red Sox must win out, and the Barry Baycats must lose out for them to have any chance of making the playoffs this season.
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So the magic number for Barry right now is one.
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But with a Toronto Maple Leafs win, there are no more magic numbers left on the board in the Canadian Baseball League.
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Zach, obviously the odds are long, but Brantford will fight right to the very end.
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And of course, they would love to start with a win here today against the Maple Leafs.
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Yeah, the magic the magic number in wins column was 24.
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Brantford currently, or excuse me, Barry currently sitting 24 and 17.
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Brantford sitting at 15 and 24.
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To get to the 500 mark, you need to have that win streak where you just don't lose.
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It's very slim, but it is just something so interesting to talk about.
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You gotta give a lot of credit to the Brantford Red Sox.
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They've been playing a lot better brand of baseballs of late.
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They're 5-5 in the last 10, currently on a two-game win streak.
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The thing that's been propelling them is the home record.
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They're 11 and 10, 11 and 9 on the year, 4 and 15 on the road.
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That's kind of where things have been a little bit shaky.
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While they're on the road here, let's see how they test against the Maple Leafs.
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Things are about to look a little bit interesting on your screen right now.
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This is the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup today, and they've been battling some injuries and just trying to, you know, get everyone to lineup and fill out a lineup card here that came right down to the wire today.
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We had some last minute changes, but this is the lineup for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Spencer Ross is the shortstop today, something he hasn't done since right at the beginning of the season.
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He's leading things off.
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Yasil Puig is at DH, followed by Jordon Mandalay.
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Lots of lineup protection there for Puig with Jordan Mandalay, and we'll get more to on Yasigel Puig in just a moment.
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JJ Dutton is hitting the cleanup spot, followed by Marcus Connect, Dennis Devanning.
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Matt Brandt, who's the third baseman today for the Toronto Maple Leafs, something we haven't seen much at all this season.
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Kyle Pops, who's a pitcher, two-way player, but primarily a pitcher on the Toronto Maple Leafs, is doing the catching, and of course Brantford knows that because they saw him uh face them behind the dish last time these two teams met.
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And Ben Siderenios, who's been an outfielder for a lot of this season, is playing first base today for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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So it should be a little bit interesting defensively today to see how this thing pans out.
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I mean, hey, whatever works, works.
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It gets to the point of the season where a lot of guys are kind of, like you said, fighting those injuries, playing a little bit banged up.
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It's that next man up mentality of say, you know what, we have a guy down today, I'll go play third base, I'll go play catcher, I'll go play first, and vice versa.
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Really, that's kind of what's gotten to the point here of the season for the Mabel Leaves, is they try to continue to fight through and just get towards the end of the year.
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So Yassi L.
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Puig is the guy that you see warming up right there, chatting with Dennis De Banning.
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He is, well, we presume is the DH, but there's been a lot of lineup changes, so you never you never know.
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It might come right down to the lineup, but Yassi L Puig uh is the attraction here tonight because he is on the verge of doing something that nobody has ever done in the Canadian Baseball League.
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And I'm talking about, well, Intercounty Baseball League as well.
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I'm talking about Sean Riley's 21 home run record that he had.
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Now, there's a lot to break down, so I think we can get kind of get into the weeds on this.
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You know, obviously the the big asterisk is that there's more games being played this season, but I I just don't think that's gonna be a big factor because there's gonna be 48 games for the foreseeable future of the Canadian Baseball League.
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But even with that being said, Yassiel Puig is at 17 home runs right now, and since the Toronto Main Beliefs have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, it'll be very fun down the stretch to see how many home runs Puig can hit.
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And can he get to that Sean Riley season uh that we saw back in 2013 when he was playing for the Guelph Royals?
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Because it was unbelievable.
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21 home runs in just 34 games.
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He didn't even play all the games of a shorter season in the intercounty baseball league, the 60 RBIs, the 404 average.
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A strong finish by Yassio Puig, though, and he's gonna have numbers that look just like that 2013 season from Sean Riley.
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Well, Yassio Puig has been tremendous for the Maple Leafs all season long.
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I mean, you look at kind of the numbers that he has, the the percentiles that he is.
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He's in the 95th percent 95th percentile with average, he's in the 100th percentile for OPS and for slugging percentage.
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Slugging's at 838 on the year for him, the on-base percentage at 491.
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The biggest thing is uh he doesn't hit ground balls.
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Only 28.7% of the time is he hitting a ground ball.
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Everything is elevated, everything is hard contact by contact quality.
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He's 39% of the time, it's hard, and it's flying out of the ballpark, and he he's done a good job as well at really kind of pushing the ball to all parts of the field, whether it be pull, up the middle, or oppo, the numbers really speak for themselves.
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The one really interesting factor that I was kind of looking at is what a he sees versus lefties and righties.
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We see his numbers, they've been so good all year long.
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Against righties, he's battened 418, which is not surprising.
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You know, the numbers kind of speak for themselves.
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Lefties, though, only 270.
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And that that's kind of the number that that really surprises me with how well and how good the numbers are this year for him.
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Maybe the biggest numbers are what Yassi Alpweek has done at Dominico Field this season.
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Three of the 17 home runs have come on the road, and all the others have been here at Christie Pitts.
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So if he wants to break that record, I mean there aren't a lot of home games left for the Toronto Maple Leaf.
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So one or two tonight would put him well on the way.
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And of course, uh, you know, on the personal side for me, I predicted 25 and a half was gonna be the total for the season.
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So obviously, uh I'm rooting for a correct prediction from the very beginning of the season.
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That would be a big number, but I think what most fans are looking at right now is uh can he get that 21 that would tie the record with Sean Riley?
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And we've seen him hit three home runs in a game here before uh a couple months ago, so it's certainly within reach.
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Now, if the main attraction on the Maple Leaf side of things lately has been Yassi Alpweig and the home run watch on the other side of things for the Brantford Red Sox, it's been Christian Ortega because he has been playing really, really well.
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I mean, look at some of the numbers that he's put up this season.
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You know, in a ballpark that's a little bit harder to hit home runs.
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He's got 12 of them, so he's not completely out of the race yet.
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And even if he doesn't catch Yassiel Puig for top spot, he's top five right now.
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He's in fifth place with tell 12 home runs.
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And both Yassiel Puig and Christian Ortega, believe it or not, as they face off here today, are tied with 45 RBI sitting in the number five spot.
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So uh lots of personal competition, and I'm sure of course uh Ortega, even though the playoff odds are unlikely.
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You know baseball players love to finish strong, and he would love to be in that top five category in both of those two things I just mentioned if he could.
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Yeah, and you know, you mentioned that 10 the 10-game hit streak that he comes into this one riding.
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Uh, over the last seven days, he has an OPS that's above 1400.
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1.437 is the OPS, and he is really just barreling up everything as of late.
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The numbers, really speaking for themselves, as a hitter here for Ortega.
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He's just a really smart battery goes up with a plan, and it kind of just feels like as a pitcher, you gotta think, do I want to attack him or do I want to try to go work around him?
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And you can't really be in that middle ground, that gray area.
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You have to attack, or you either have to just let him take a base, because well, he's been deadly really all year long.
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So we'll see what happens.
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I mean, the Brantford Red Sox, this is a big game for them.
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They uh want to keep winning if they can as we take a look at their lineup today.
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No one else playing except these two teams, so this is the main attraction tonight.
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It's Jacob Cantor, the shortstop, who's leading things off for the Brantford Red Sox.
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He's followed by Brody Black, the right fielder.
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And then it's Chris Ortega who's playing first base, and can he get himself on the home run board tonight and challenge that top five?
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The catcher is Andrew Savage in the cleanup spot.
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He's had a great season, as well as Tim Holk, who's the third baseman.
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Christian Kuzemka is getting the start today at DH.
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And then the bottom three in the lineup is Francisco Martinez, the left fielder, Lucas Lefebvre at second base, and Walker Hulkren, who's playing center field today for the Brantford Red Sox, and a big game for them.
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We are going to break, and on the other side, we will have the national anthem here at Christie Fence.
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One, two, and this one's crushed in the air, deep to center field, and it is off the wall.
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Ortega into second base with a double.
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One run comes in to score, and Brantford takes the lead.
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Now Savage smashes one in the air.
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This one's deep to right, and it is off the very top of the wall.
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Marcus Connect gets it back in.
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Here's a throw to second base.
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In time, they got him.
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It does cash in another run.
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It's 2-0 Brantford, and that little short relay by Jordan Mandele worked out perfectly for Toronto.
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Here's the 2-1.
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Tim Hulk rips this one in the air.
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This is gonna stay fair and go off the wall.
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It rolls into the corner.
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Another run comes in to score.
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Tim Hulk has an RBI double, and it's 3-0 Brantford Red Sox.
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And boy, they are hitting the ball all over the field here in this first inning.
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And he hits one in the air.
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This one's high and deep to left field.
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Dennis DeBannon going back to the wall, and it is gone.
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Oh, wall scraper for Kuzemka able to sneak one over the left field brewery sign in left field.
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And Brantford takes a 5-0 lead here in the first.
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Be wary of the wildness as well.
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The one-two.
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Inside and it hit him.
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Oh, that hit Marcus Connect right on the forearm.
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That could not have felt good.
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He is flexing his hand as he walks back towards the dugout.
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This will plate a run for the Maple Leafs, but an already very injured Maple Leafs team cannot afford this to be anything serious for their veteran outfielder.
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You'd have to imagine that Brant gets another fastball here.
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3-1.
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Oh yeah.
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Miss down and in.
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Ball four.
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That's gonna push across a run.
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So the Maple Leafs have two.
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And this one's crushed high in the air, deep to left field, and there's no doubt about it.
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Andrew Savage with a shot that was hammered to left.
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And the Brantford Red Sox put up a big three spot here in the second inning.
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It's eight to two.
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Big high pressure pitch from Serrata.
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Runners on the move.
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Padia lines it into the outfield.
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That's a base hit.
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This will cash in run.
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Here comes the second to the plate, and CL Pee comes in to score as well.
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Milky Padia comes off the bench and delivers a two-run single for the Maple Leafs.
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Christian Kuzemka.
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Base is loaded.
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Hammers one in the air, deep to left field, and Christian Kuzemka has blown this one wide open.
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Another moon shot for the Brantford Red Sox.
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They've got 12 here in the fourth.
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That's a grand slam for Kuzemka.
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Breaking ball that time.
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Now the count's two and two.
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And now big hammer's into the air.
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Deep to left field.
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And that is number 18 of the season, Peresio.
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Well, you have to move frustration and not swinging, or if it was called a strike.
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I think it was not swinging.
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And he answered the call the very next pitch, just destroying it over the left field wall.
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And he took out that frustration on the baseball.
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Here's the 0-2.
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And this one's laced in the air.
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High and deep to right field, and it is gone.
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That is an opposite field home run for Brody Black.
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And it's 14 to 6.
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Ross chops one on the ground.
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Slow bouncing ball to second.
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Play to first in time to get Ross.
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Run comes in to score.
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Base is loaded here in the fifth.
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Vandala hits one on the ground.
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14 to 8 now in the bottom of the fifth.
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Canadian hits one up the middle.
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Broken bat flare into the upfield for a basement.
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Now we'll come out at least to one of JJ Denton.
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We'll get this one in.
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Throw to the plate, come off my go-co.
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And it's a three-run ball game now at the pit.
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First pitch to the SEL.
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Anyway, looking at the final season.
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The one-two.
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Hit on the ground.
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Brandt has it.
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He's coming home.
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Throw bounces to home plate.
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Bobbled by Pops.
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He has it.
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The runner is safe at home plate.
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The base is still loaded, and Kyle Pops got run over as he tried to pick up the baseball.
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Two and two on Savage.
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The fans trying to help Luis Florentino get out of this.
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Savage lines it into the upfield for a base hit.
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This one's gonna roll towards the corner.
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It will plate at least two runs.
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It's gonna go down as a long single for Savage, and it's 18-13 here at the Pitts.
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Dead red fastball.
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Hulk hammers one in the air.
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This one's deep to left field, and it's way out of here.
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Actually, that was Christian Kuzemka who got a hold of it.
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That is his third home run of the night.
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And this one's hit in the air.
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This one's high and deep to right field, and it is.
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Oh, that is gone.
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It clears the wall.
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It's getting dark here at the pits.
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22 runs now for the Brampton Red Sox.
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Here's the 2-2 to De Banning.
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Hit in the air to center field on a line, and it falls for a base hit.
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RBI single Dennis De Banning.
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And it is 22 to 14.
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It's past your bagtime, Mr.
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West.
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Brant lines went into center field for a base hit.
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This will cash in another run for the Toronto Maple Leaves, and it's misplayed in center field.
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Brandt will cruise into second base.
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He has himself an RBI double, and it's 22 to 16.
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The 01.
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Cedranios chops one on the ground.
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Tough play at third base.
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Hole throws on the run and makes it.
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Another run comes in to score, so it's 22 to 17 now.
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On the ground, and this one is a sliding play at second base, and there's no play at first.
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Another run comes in to score.
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AJ Karasis sliding there with a good effort, but he gets on.
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They might have to go to it.
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A second.
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And that will end the ball game.
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AJ Karasis is able to pick that one up and step on the bag a 40 run night here at the pits.
