A’s Fall Apart, Legends Rack Up 14-8 Victory
Posted: July 29, 2010
My kingdom for a strike.
The Sheboygan A’s took a 7-2 lead into the eighth inning and then disintegrated.
The Appleton Legends took advantage of five hits, seven walks, two hit batsmen and two errors in the last two innings to score a dozen runs and take home a 14-8 Northeastern Wisconsin League victory.
What really hurt the die hard fans who stuck it out to the end was that the A’s wasted a brilliant start by Kevin Wild. Through seven innings, Wild surrendered only five hits and had six strikeouts in the books. Hindsight says he should have come out after those seven because disaster came in a wind shear and buried the A’s with a 9-run eighth. A 3-run ninth poured on salt.
The A’s loaded the bases in the second, but couldn’t score. They took a 1-0 lead in the third on Kyle Edlhuber’s sacrifice fly.
They led until Appleton scored the niner in the eighth.
Gabe Marshall and Phil Kramsky both had three hits for the A’s.
The club is 22-19 for the season and 8-6 in the NEW. The team is home Friday with Oshkosh in a 7:30 p.m. battle that counts in both the State League and the Northeastern League standings. The A’s still have their sights set on a first division finish in the State League and a first place finish in the Northeastern.
Unfortunately setting sights doesn’t fill the corn crib.
The Sheboygan A's are members of the Wisconsin State League and Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League. The A's have helped develop more than 43 players that have reached professional baseball, including 2002 World Series Champion Jarrod Washburn (Anaheim Angels). All Sheboygan A's home games are played at Wildwood Baseball Park in Sheboygan. Connect with the A's on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
