Close games all over. Some are low-scoring, some are high-scoring.
BRISBANE 4, SYDNEY 3 IN SYDNEY (10 INNINGS)
Twins: Logan Wade (Brisbane) was 0-for-5 with an RBI.
Brisbane: David Sutherland was 2-for-5 with three RBIs. Patrick Leonard (Tampa Bay) was 1-for-4 with a walk and a double, scoring twice. Casey Barnes struck out six in 6.1 innings, giving up two runs on six hits and one walk.
Sydney: Jacob May (White Sox) was 2-for-5 with a triple and an RBI. Guy Edmonds was 2-for-3 with a walk and a double, scoring once. Luke Wilkins struck out five in three shutout innings, allowing no runs and no hits.
The game: Sutherland doubled in two in the first to give Brisbane a 2-0 lead. Jacob Younis cut the lead to 2-1 with a second inning RBI single, but Brisbane went back up by two in the third on an RBI ground out. Sydney once again cut the lead to one in the fourth when Michael Lysaught drove in a run with a ground-rule double. It stayed 3-2 until the bottom of the ninth, when May's two-out triple tied it up. In the tenth, Sutherland singled in what turned out to be the winning run with two out. Sydney got a pair of walks in the bottom of the tenth and got a man to third with two out, but couldn't tie the score.
PERTH 12, MELBOURNE 11 IN PERTH (10 INNINGS)
Melbourne: Jarryd Rogers was 2-for-4 with two walks and a double, scoring twice and driving in three. Darryl George (Tampa Bay) was 5-for-6 with a double and three runs. Brad Harman was 1-for-3 with three walks, scoring once and driving in two.
Perth: Brandon Tripp was 4-for-5 with a double and a home run (his fifth), driving in four. Matt Kennelly (Atlanta) was 2-for-6 with a home run (his fifth) and four RBIs. Brendan Wise struck out five in 3.2 scoreless innings, allowing three hits and no walks.
The game: Tripp homered in the first to give Perth a 2-0 lead. Melbourne put together three singles, an error, a walk, and a sacrifice fly to score four in the second, then added one more in the third on back-to-back doubles by George and Rogers to go ahead 5-2. Perth countered in the bottom of the third with RBI singles by Tripp and Kennelly to make it 5-4 and took the lead in the fourth with a three-run inning. Ryan Casteel (Colorado) homered for Melbourne in the fifth to cut the lead to 7-6, but Kennelly hit a three-run homer in the sixth to make it 10-6. In the seventh, a two-run double by Jared Schlehuber (Kansas City) capped a five-run outburst to make it 11-10 Melbourne. Perth scored one on an error in the bottom of the seventh to tie it up. There was no more scoring until the tenth, when a single, a hit batsman, and a single loaded the bases with one out and an error brought home the winning run for Perth.
ADELAIDE 4, CANBERRA 2 IN ADELAIDE
Canberra: Shane Opitz (Toronto) was 1-for-5 with a double and two RBIs. Michael Wells was 3-for-4 with a run. Aaron Thompson pitched five innings, giving up one run on four hits and two walks.
Adelaide: Chris Jacobs (Dodgers) was 1-for-3 with a three-run homer, his fourth. Joe Sclafani (Houston) was 1-for-2 with two walks, scoring once and driving in one. James Campbell (Dodgers) pitched six innings, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks with four strikeouts.
The game: Sclafani's RBI single put Adelaide ahead 1-0 in the first. It stayed 1-0 until the fifth, when Opitz delivered a two-out two-run double to put Canberra up 2-1. Adelaide opened the sixth with two walks and then Jacobs hit a three-run homer to make the score 4-2 Adelaide. Canberra loaded the bases with two out in the ninth.