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The Brooklyn Flaming Skulls are as hot as their name, winners of 8 of 11 and since starting 1-6 the Skulls are 21-9. Overall the Skulls are 22-15 and are currently 3.5 games in first place. Today The Skulls had their most exciting game of the year. Skulls' ace, David Cone started but pitched his worse game of the year, giving up 5 earned runs in 7 innings against Galena. Galena carried a 6-2 lead into the bottom of the ninth inning when the Skulls loaded the bases for Manny Ramirez and Ramirez came through with a game-tying grand slam. In the top of the tenth, Galena scored 2 runs and took a 2 run lead into the bottom of the tenth. Edgardo Alfonso scored on a double by Angel Sherid and jose Valintin ended the game with a 2- run homer. G.M. Ryan george had this to say, " This was the most exciting game of the year, Manny really came through for us, I think that was the biggest hit of the year for any of our players. It's nice when to have a win like this and right now I have a lot of confidense in this team. This team has been hot lately and I hope it stays that way."
The Skulls hit 4 hr's and had a total of 15 hits. Manny Ramirez drove in 4 runs and has 9 rbi in his last 2 games.
Written by Ryan George