Quinn looking nervous at post game news conference answering questions about his outing
MBC's Saturday's win over Dow was tainted by speculation that big time gamblers had influenced the outcome of the game. MBC won the game 7-4, but talk was buzzing through talk radio that perhaps a member of MBC's pitching staff was shaving points.
Nick Salle was impressive throwing four innings cruising to a 7-0 margin. Nick yielded just two hits and struck out two. He was followed by Quinn Burcham who suspiciously yielded three runs on five walks, no hits involved. Immediately after the game talk was flying about whether Quinn had tanked his performance for big money coming from Vegas.
Commenting after the game Quinn said "talk of point shaving is way out of line. I knew we could win, and would win easily. What you have to understand is that I had sat out the first four innings and had not gotten any at-bats. I was worried that we would eight run this team prior to me getting a chance to swing it". And swing it he did. In his only at bat, Quinn belted a tremendous shot to center for a double.
MBC started hard and early again leading the game off with singles by Nick Salle, Alex Mitchhell, Tino Peleti and Stuart Fairchild. With one run in and the bases loaded, Mitchell Smith, Nick Reeves and David Becker all singled to make the score 5-0 MBC.
MBC played limited add on. The third inning started by Adam Hithorne walking. Mitchell Smith single him to second and he scored on Spencer Hogger's single. In the fifth Tino started thing off by being hit (after going 6-6 in his last six at bats). Russell Madche singled him to third and he scored on Ethan Clements ground out.
After Quinn made the score interesting with his suspicious outing, Russell Madche came on to put out the fire. Ever day Russell made quick work of the Dow team with no hit relief for the rest of the game.
Classic photo.
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