Green Bay Hands A’s First NEWBL Loss in Extras 4-3
Posted: June 22, 2016
GREEN BAY – The Sheboygan A’s got off to a bad start here Tuesday night, battled back furiously to tie, only to lose 4-3 in 11 innings to a gritty, determined, and vastly improved Green Bay Storm.
It will go down as one of the most memorable games the A’s 54 year history.
The A’s got off to a bad start but escaped a nightmare of an inning as they came out of it trailing only 2-0 as the deuce was all the Storm could muster despite sending eight men to the plate. Green Bay added another run in the seventh.
The A’s tied it with three runs in the eighth inning that would send the game into extra innings. The rally began when Trevor Cho led off with a base hit, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Wyatt Olson’s base hit. Unfortunately for the A’s, Olson was picked off of first base before Harry Steldt hit a double and scored on Nate Heili’s long, game-tying home run over the centerfield fence to make the score tied at three.
The A’s dodged a bullet in the bottom of the ninth when a base hit, error and an intentional walk loaded the bases with no outs. Connor Keating came on to get three outs and preserve the extra innings. The A’s had a chance to win it in the 11th when two walks and hit loaded the bases with only one out, but couldn’t come up with game-winning hit.
The game-winning hit honor fell upon Green Bay’s Spencer Larson who singled into the right-center with two out the bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th.
The loss puts the A’s at 6-1 in the Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League; the win puts Green Bay at 5-1. The A’s play at Oshkosh tonight in a game that counts in both the Wisconsin State League and Northeastern Wisconsin League standings.
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.
