{"id":6354,"date":"2016-03-08T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:50:48","slug":"11u-birmingham-giants-turn-bad-saturday-giant-rout-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=6354","title":{"rendered":"11u Birmingham Giants turn bad saturday into Giant rout on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"champsThe 11u Birmingham Giants, the newly top ranked 11u team in USA Playmakers went into Saturday with a 13 game unbeaten streak. Unfortunatley as so often happens in sports, they hit the ground hard, with a thud, dropping their first 2 pool play games, and seeding 8th of 8 teams going into sundays bracket play. Sunday however was a bit different, as the Giants not only beat the 1 seed, but also the 3 seed and 4 seed, on their way to their second straight championship of the spring, and raising their spring 2016 record to 6-2-1 on the season and all time record to 19-7-1.<\/p>\n

\"John

John Pickens<\/p><\/div>\n

In game 1 the Giants arrived flat, surrendering 4 runs in the first inning, in their way to a 7-3 loss to the Alabama Sox. The Giants offense had 1 hit, a lead off single from John Pickens.<\/p>\n

In game 2 of black saturday, the Giants got off to a much better start,scoring 3 runs in the first including a Home run from Sylas Amick, 1 of his 2 in the game, just the second time a Giants player has accomplished that feat (Elissa glaze 2015) and hits from Jarod Latta, Egan Lowery, Peyton Jackson and 2 from JB Landrum were not enough as the Giants fell hard 18-8.<\/p>\n

Loss put the Giants at a team record -13 run differential and seeded the Giants last in the field of 8 teams leading into their first bracket play match up on Sunday with the Storm from Montgomery.\u00a0Sylas “Tank” Amick\u00a0(3-0)took the mound in the first game on sunday, recording 8 k’s while allowing just 2 hits and 1 run in the\u00a0complete game win. At the plate, the Giants had a far different outcome than their saturday effort, hits from John Pickens (2 , 1HR), Carson Berry (2), Jarod Latta (2), KJ Beck (1), JB Landrum (1), and \u00a0Peyton Jackson (1) as the Giants scored 10 run on their way to the 10-1 victory. Gavin Clanton threw out the potential tying run at 2nd base in the 2nd inning and the storm never threatened again.<\/p>\n

\"Sylas

Sylas “Tank” Amick<\/p><\/div>\n

\"KJ

KJ Beck<\/p><\/div>\n

The win moved the Giants on, and gave them a chance to avenge one of their Saturday losses, \u00a0as they matched up again with the Alabama Sox, this time with a different result. \u00a0The Giants jumped out to a 3-1 lead and never looked back, eventually winning 8-2. Carson Berry (1-0) took the hill, pitching all 5 innings, striking out 3 and allowing just 3 hits and hits from Carson Berry (2), Sylas Amick (1 HR (3)), Jarod Latta (2), KJ Beck (2), and \u00a0Egan Lowery (2, 1 2b). The Giants also turned the clubs second ever triple play, 5-3-6, Lowery to Amick to Beck .The win avenged the loss from saturday and propelled the Giants into their 5th straight championship game.
\n\"12800107_773922122743892_6318680306794896844_n\"In the Championship game, the Giants opponent was the 4th seeded Outcast. John Pickens (1-1) took the mound, to pitch his first championship game as a Giant. After allowing 3 first inning runs, Pickens settled down, allowing just 2 hits over the next 5 innings, while striking out 2 for the win, his first as a Giant. At the Plate the Giants offense was paced by John Pickens with 3 hits, including a double, Carson Berry (1), Sylas Amick (2, 1 HR(4)), Jarod Latta (1), and KJ Beck (1, 2b). With the Giants trailing 3-2 in the top of the final frame, and down to their final 2 outs John Pickens hit a double into the left field corner and Carson Berry followed it up with a single to put runners on the corners with 1 out, with Sylas Amick at the plate. On the first pitch Amick hit a towering home run to put the Giants in the lead 5-3 , and eventually 7-3 on KJ Becks double. The Home run by Sylas Amick was his 6th as a Giant, making him the All Time leader in Home Runs for Giants Baseball. Peyton Berendt ran down 3 balls in Center Field and Dez Kemp cut off a base hit in left to keep the runner on first where he was eventually stranded.<\/p>\n

The 11u Giants have the weekend off from play and will resume on the 19th in Culman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 11u Birmingham Giants, the newly top ranked 11u team in USA Playmakers went into Saturday with a 13 game unbeaten streak. Unfortunatley as so often happens in sports, they hit the ground hard, with a thud, dropping their first 2 pool play games, and seeding 8th of 8 teams going into sundays bracket play. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,4,81,82],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama-travel-ball","tag-birmingham-giants","tag-birmingham-giants-11u","tag-birmingham-giants-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6369,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}