A’s Beat Manitowoc, 8-6; Brace for Big Weekend
Posted: June 22, 2013
The Sheboygan A’s regrouped and took an 8-6 victory from the Manitowoc Bandits at Wildwood Park Friday night.
It was the opener of a 5-game weekend that features a pair of Wisconsin State League twin bills against the Eau Claire Cavaliers Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Saturday is Cancer Awareness night when the A’s will welcome cancer survivors, patients, caregivers and their families. Game time is 5 p.m. Sunday is Labor Day, the annual game that welcomes members of Sheboygan County Labor Unions. Action begins at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Manitowoc jumped out to an early lead as A’s starter Ryan Hamm ran into control problems. The Bandits used walks, a hit batsman and Travis Mason’s double to get three runs before the A’s turned the lights on.
Manitowoc added two more in the third and found themselves down 5-1 before Mitch Gardner entered the ball game and doused Manitowoc’s offense.
Sam Raff’s double was the big contributor to the second inning run and then added another in the third before taking the lead for good with a 5-run fourth inning. Doubles by Ben Gordon and Trevor Theissen sparked the inning and made Gardner a winner. Cole Heili’s home run rounded out the scoring in the eighth.
Gardner shut Manitowoc out on just four hits over the final seven innings.
Theissen, Chad Langley, Luke Maldonado and Gordon all had two hits for the A’s who rebounded from the shaky start and played well after that.
The club takes a 9-11 record into the Eau Claire series.
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.
