{"id":6096,"date":"2013-09-07T01:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T05:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2013-09-07T01:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T05:21:34","slug":"bulls-sweep-indy-to-advance-to-governors-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6096","title":{"rendered":"Bulls sweep Indy to advance to Governors&#8217; Cup Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bullslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bullslogo.jpg\" alt=\"bullslogo\" width=\"235\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6097\" \/><\/a>Merrill Kelly, Adam Liberatore and Juan Sandoval combined to send the Durham Bulls to a 2-1 win over the Indianapolis Indians Friday night at Victory Field, completing a three-game, first round sweep that sends the Bulls back to the Governors&#8217; Cup Championship Round for the first time since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls scored twice in the third and final inning of work by Major League rehabber Wandy Rodriguez thanks to a single by Cole Figueroa and a force-out grounder by Jason Bourgeois. Those two runs would hold up, but not without same late inning drama.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly (W, 1-0) pitched 5 2\/3 innings to earn the win. Liberatore recorded four outs before turning the game over to Sandoval (S, 1) for the save. Sandoval allowed a run in the last of the ninth on a pinch-hit single by Ivan DeJesus Jr. With the tying run at third and two outs, Figueroa handled an in-between hop grounder by Robert Andino and with his throw to first base, sent the Bulls back to the International League championship series.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls will now await the winner of the Pawtucket\/Rochester series. The PawSox took a 2-1 series lead tonight with their 5-1 win over the Red Wings, and are now a game away from joining the South Division champs in the IL Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Durham Bulls Athletic Park will host Game One on Tuesday, September 10 and Game Two on Wednesday, September 11. Both contests are scheduled for 7:05pm. The best-of-five series will then move to the home park of the Pawtucket\/Rochester series winner.<\/p>\n<p>The eventual International League Champion will move on to face the winners of the Pacific Coast League title in the one game, winner-take-all, Gildan Triple-A National Championship Game at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, PA on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>Single game playoff tickets are $10 for all seating bowl locations. Groups of 20 or more can purchase playoff tickets for $8 each. Tickets for the Governors&#8217; Cup Championship Round can be purchased at the DBAP box office during regular business hours, by phone at 919.956.BULL or online at durhambulls.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?gid=2013_09_06_dubaaa_indaaa_1&#038;t=g_box&#038;sid=milb\">Boxscore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merrill Kelly, Adam Liberatore and Juan Sandoval combined to send the Durham Bulls to a 2-1 win over the Indianapolis Indians Friday night at Victory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}