Gorst breaks and makes 2 balls on the break, well actually he makes 3 since the cb went right into the side. There are some tied up balls, so Superman has his work cut out for him.
He's putting the cb just a couple of inches from the 1 right on the rail. I don't know why he's doing it this way, He was able to break out the 6,8 but he'll either have to play safe on the 2 or play a carom off of the nine into the corner. He could play a two way with the carom off of the 9 and playing shape down table behind the 5 so he's hidden behind the 5 if he misses the 2 but has shape on the 5 if he makes it.
Instead, he calls the combo 2-9 banked in the opposite side attempting to carom off of the 8. He gets a safety out of it, hiding the cb behind the 6,8 which he tied back up, but I don't think it was intended as he would have been hooked on the 2 himself had he made it.
Gorst hits the 2 with a 3 rail kick and while it looked like he would get a safe, the 2 goes far enough to open itself up for Gomez.
Gomez still has to contend with the 6,8 as the 6 only has one pocket and super tight shape to get there. It looks like he sets himself up to play a lock up safe on the 8, but may have come up short to make it easy. He did and had to use a ton of inside. He gets the safe but leaves a one rail kick that gives Gorst a chance to make it in the side.
This is like the 3rd time that Gorst has over hit a kick and come up short by tightening the angle, it almost seems like they're playing on a red label even though I know they aren't.
Gomez gets bih and the table is wide open, yet he somehow overshoots shape on the 8 and lands right on top of it.
He eyes up a thin one rail off of the 8 to the back rail and hooks Gorst behind the 9 about an inch off of the back rail.
Gorst does have a rail first kick on the 8 down in the corner and it looks like that's what he is eyeing up.
Wow, he cinches it at speed and comes back across the table for a makeable shot on the 9.
Gorst banks in the 9 and makes the 10 to take the lead again 2-1.
Jaden