Four Runs With One Out In The Last Frame Get It Done

Cocoa Astros 4 Orlando Twins 3

Game Three

August 13, 1972

Starter Paul Siebert:  Off the Hook with a Miracle Seventh
1975 TCMA Iowa Oaks Unnumbered


This must have been a great game. Cocoa came up with four runs in the seventh inning here to ensure that the tripleheader would be remembered in evey possible positive light. The Twins had broken their fourteen-inning scoreless drought (and eight-inning hitless streak) when Mike Poepping singled home Ed Palat in the first. Two more came across in the fifth when Joe Jacobsen doubled in the fifth. Wise singled, and McLaren (no doubt disappointed he didn't get to catch Cuen's no-hitter) walked. Pinch-hitter Jordan made an out and Luis Rodriguez singled, scoring Wise. Clark Ullom then went to a three and oh count on Neil Rasmussen and Orlando manager Early Wynn gave Ullom the hook. Reliever Ed Sabold couldn't throw three straight strikes, and the bases were loaded for John McRae, whose bid for a grand slam to right fell just short, but sent McLaren home. Art Gardner, batting for Francisco Lopez, who'd relieved starter Paul Siebert the previous inning, who hit a liner to center, scoring Rodriguez, and, just as importantly, getting Rasmussen to third. First-game hero Alberto Leaver came up, and some kind of play must've been on. Safety or suicide, Leaver's bunt to second left John Phelps unable to make a play, and the Cocoa squad had swept the first tripleheader in Florida State League history.
Orlando Twins ABRHRBI





Ed Palat, cf 3 1 0 0
John Brooks, rf 1 1 0 0
Jackson Sexton, lf 4 1 1 0
Mike Poepping, 1b 3 0 1 1
Joe Jacobsen, c 3 0 1 2
Martin Braun, 3b 3 0 0 0
Tom Hanegan, ss 3 0 0 0
John Phelps, 2b 3 0 0 0
Clark Ullom, p 2 0 1 0
Ed Sabold, p 0 0 0 0
 
 





Orlando totals25 3 4 3
Cocoa Astros ABRHRBI









Alberto Leaver, cf 2 0 1 4
Jim Busby, 2b 3 0 0 0
Tom Wise, 3b 3 1 1 0
Bob Blakley, lf 3 0 0 0
Curtis Jordan, ph 1 0 0 0
John McLaren, c 2 1 0 0
Luis Rodriguez, rf 3 1 2 1
Neil Rasmussen, ss 2 1 0 0
John McRae, 1b 2 0 0 1
Paul Siebert, p 1 0 0 0
Art Gardner, ph 1 0 1 1
Francisco Lopez, p 0 0 0 0





Cocoa totals25 4 6 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Cocoa Astros 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Orlando Twins 1 0 0 0 2 0 0

E-   Braun, Wise, Rasmussen
DP-  Orlando 1 Cocoa 1
LOB- Cocoa 4 Orlando 7
2B - Jacobsen
SF - McRae

Orlando Twins IPHRERBBK







Clark Ullom (L) 6-1/3 4 4 4 2 4
Ed Sabold 1/3 2 0 0 0 0

Cocoa Astros IPHRERBBK







Paul Siebert 6 4 3 3 5 5
Francisco Lopez (W) 1 0 0 0 2 0


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Source: Florida Today, August 14, 1972
Thank you to those at the Melbourne Public Library

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