Championship series in OKC: Washington vs. Florida game thread
By Christian Caple — June 1, 2009
GAME OVER, FOR REAL THIS TIME--The final is 8-0, and the Huskies are one win away from their first title in scool history. I'll be back with more after the postgame press conferences.
HOW OVER IS IT?--After Lawrie struck out Kelsey Bruder to end the sixth inning, both teams and the umpires left the field, and the groundscrew started removing the bases, unaware that there is no mercy rule in the championship series. Funny stuff.
ROUT IS ON--Ashley Charters just ripped a two-run homer off Florida reliever Stephanie Brombacher here in the sixth, giving the Huskies an 8-0 lead. There's no mercy rule in the championship series, though, so this one is going to go seven innings regardless.
BLOWOUT--Anyone still think Florida is going to run away with this series? It's 6-0 Huskies now after Morgan Stuart smacks a two-out RBI double to straightaway center field. It's 6-0 UW heading to the bottom of the fifth.
ANOTHER EASY INNING--Lawrie sets the Gators down in order again, picking up two more K's to bring her total to seven. So much for her being out of gas. Still 4-0 heading to the fifth.
LAWRIE BREEZING ALONG--She gives up her first hit of the game, an infield grounder that caused some miscommunication between third baseman Morgan Stuart and shortstop Salling. But she retired the next three batters, getting two of them on strikeouts. Still 4-0 heading to the top of the fourth.
BIG-TIME ERROR--The Huskies get two runs on an RBI single by Salling with the bases loaded in the third, then Florida compounds the problem when catcher Kelsey Bruder throws the ball over the head of her second baseman trying to get Salling, who was trying to advance to second on the throw to the plate, and also over the head of the center fielder backing up the play. Everyone scored. It's 4-0 Huskies.
PITCHER'S DUEL--Both Nelson and Lawrie look pretty locked in. Nelson set the Huskies down 1-2-3 quickly in the second, then Lawrie retired the side in order after walking the second batter of the inning and getting a nice 6-4-3 double play to get out of it.
LAWRIE SHARP--She strikes out the side in the bottom of the first inning, getting the last two batters looking. Florida seems content to make Lawrie throw strikes, as they swung at just one pitch in that inning. They might want to consider changing strategies, if that's the case.
HUSKIES BLOW GREAT CHANCE--An infield single and an error had runners on second and third for UW with nobody out in the top of the first inning. But the Huskies had yet another runner thrown out at the plate on a groundball hit by Jenn Salling, then Stacey Nelson struck out Lawrie and got Morgan Stuart to ground out to third base. You can't waste chances like that against a pitcher like Nelson.

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