A’s Eke Out Win in Green Bay
Posted: July 2, 2009
If there is anything this 2009 crew of Sheboygan A’s is not, it’s predictable. Unless your definition of predictable is producing wild finishes and pulling out games that most scripts had the other team winning.
Couldn’t follow that? A quick look at Thursday night’s game in Green Bay will clarify.
The A’s are looking good, very good. They use four walks and a 2-run single by Matt Schilter to take a 3-0 lead in the second inning. After a 2-out, 2-run single by Ryan Kahl brought Green Bay to within 3-2, hits by Tim Patzman, Nohl Depies, and a wild pitch made it 4-2 after three.
Then the A’s bumped it to 6-2 on four straight hits in the fourth (Kreston Albright, Patzman, Lucas Wilsing and Depies) with Wilsing and Depies getting RBI’s.
Kehl drove in another run with a fifth inning double and in the sixth, Depies’ 2-run homer made it 8-3 snd the A’s were feeling comfortable about the evening’s activities.
But then Green Bay hit the A’s with a 5-run eighth inning, Rob Coe’s grand slam home run the key blow.
For A’s fans it was uncomfortable now.
But the club brushed it off and scored a run in the ninth. After one out, Ryan Schmitz singled, David Novak was hit by a pitch, but after a couple scary moments, got up and trotted down to first. After that, Justin Hunt rapped a ground ball to short that was juggled and then thrown away to decide things.
Kevin Wild, on the mound in Green Bay’s big eighth inning, reaped the benefits from the nnth inning run and got the win. Zach Hoch pitched the ninth for a save.
The trouble with those late inning wins is the fact that the pitcher who had a great start and kept the A’s close through seven, gets little notoriety. In this case that was Greg Blohowiak. He pitched seven strong innings in his best outing of the season.
Depies was 3-for-4 with a walk and a home run to lead the A’s at the plate. Patzman had two hits.
The A’s are now off for the weekend before hosting Manitowoc Monday in Sponsors and Friends Night. The club is now 22-9 for the season and 12-1 in the Northeastern Wisconisn League.
Notes: A’s bench coach C.J. Skelton will have surgery on Tuesday July 7th to repair broken bones in his face after being hit by a line drive during batting practice on June 27th. Skelton has three broken bones in his cheek and a broken bone in his left eye socket. A time-table for his return to the A’s is unknown at this time.
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