From Raley Field in Sacramento. The River Cats won, 13-8. In Game 4 of their Pacific Coast League playoff series Sacramento scored 6 times in the 1st and after Tacoma closed to within 7-5 the River Cats opened it back up with 6 more in the 7th, advancing to play Memphis for the PCL title. Tommy Everidge drove in 3 runs with a pair of hits, Chris Carter homered for the fifth straight game (1 regular season, 4 playoffs), Brett Wallace tripled in 2 in the big 1st inning and Aaron Cunningham had an important 2-run double in the 7th. Shawn Chacon lasted 5+ innings and allowed 4 runs for the win while Gaby Hernandez of the Rainers was lit up for 6 runs in just 2/3 innings and Justin Thomas later allowed 4 of his own in 1/3 innings. Chris Shelton and Matt Tuiasosopo both homered for Tacoma and drove in 3 runs apiece.

As the summary indicates, this was practically a tale of three games within one as Sacramento jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first, led 7-0 after two, then Tacoma homers in the third and sixth brought them to within 7-5 and it got even dicier before the River Cats got out of trouble. A big seventh put it out of reach at 13-5 and even though Tacoma would get three more in the ninth in large part due to Henry Rodriguez's inability to throw strikes, it was just a matter of how long the last three outs would take before Sacramento, seeking their third straight PCL title, moved on to face Memphis. Chris Carter? Locked in right now. Let's see how Memphis pitches him. The problem is Sacramento's lineup is so potent there isn't really anyone you can pitch around in the first two thirds of the order.

I had a bit better night shooting as I changed a couple settings and got a little more action mixed in with other things. While it's good to get things like home runs off the bat, there are only so many hitter shots you can take before you've got a good assortment of them, so when that's done it's time to try to get other stuff. 60 shots here with some to follow below.

Adrian Cardenas and Chris Carter:

Brett Wallace and Gregorio Petit, who must have worked on his jump shot (tossed to a fan):

Shawn Chacon wasn't great but he didn't need to be:

Gaby Hernandez had a night to forget:

Chris Shelton comes up short on a double (and I got this after missing one by one pitch the night before):

Wallace triples in a pair:

Carter tracks yet another home run (now 8 in 17 Triple-A games to go with 20 RBI), this one barely staying fair down the left field line:

Jerry Owens gets an infield single on a tough play that brings Carter off the bag (my original shot of this was way too dark and still isn't perfect):

Oswaldo Navarro follows through on a throw to first with Aaron Cunningham sliding in (and me getting partially blocked by the first base coach):

This just looks painful for Scott Patterson:

I think Patterson has been watching too much Monty Python. But seriously, he has quite the follow-through sometimes. I love taking pictures of him pitching, either way:

After a key double right over the third base bag, Tacoma's Daren Brown, who thought it was foul, gets into a heated argument with Delfin Colon. It got pretty animated but Brown was not ejected:

Matt Carson scores after a wild pitch as Adam Moore is late with the tag:

Next up: a best-of-five series with two in Memphis before the rest are in Sacramento as needed: