Langley Leads A’s Past Storm
Posted: July 25, 2013
It was Chad Langley night at Green Bay’s Vandenplas Field Wednesday night.
Langley delivered a seventh inning home run to give the A’s a 4-3 lead and followed it with a clutch 2-out ninth inning single to give them a 5-4 Northeastern Wisconsin League victory over the Green Bay Storm. That was after he contributed a sacrifice fly and a pair of singles to figure in all five A’s scores.
The win puts the A’s at 11-7 in the league with two games remaining against the Oshkosh Giants. At worst, the club will finish third in the league behind Menasha and Appleton.
The A’s scored one run in every other inning to trump Green Bay’s 3-run rally in the second and solo score in the top of the eighth.
Langley’s hot bat started the A’s scoring in the first with a sacrifice fly, but Green Bay took a 3-1 lead with a 4-hit third inning rally. Sam Mattheis’ RBI single was the third hit of the A’s third inning and they closed it to 3-2. Mattheis drove in his second run of the night following an error and Langley’s base hit to tie it at three after five innings.
Langley’s long seventh inning home run gave the A’s a 4-3 lead. But, after two outs a costly throwing error contributed to Green Bay’s game-tying fourth run in the eighth.
The A’s won it in the ninth. Jeremy McCarty started the inning with a base hit. He was forced at second, but the hustling Luke Maldonado beat the double play throw to first base.
After the second out, Harry Steldt had a great at bat to draw a walk and keep the inning alive and then Langley delivered the tie-breaking hit that would ultimately be the game winner.
Derek Loomans got the win, working eight innings against the solid Storm line-up and pitching his way out of one troublesome inning after another. Green Bay left 12 men on base.
One of them was Doug Coe’s pinch runner Chris Laux after Coe led off the bottom of the ninth with a double. But after Laux was moved to third via a sacrifice bunt, Jordan DeBoer retired the final two hitters on ground balls to earn the save for the A’s.
Langley finished 4-for-4 with a home run and a sac-fly for three runs batted in. Mattheis had three hits and two runs batted in and DeBoer, who started the game at second base and finished on the mound, had two hits.
The A’s travel to Kenosha for a Wisconsin State League game Thursday night and then launch Langsdorf League playoff action Saturday night with a 7:30 p.m. game at Wildwood against either Burlington, Northern Illinois or West Allis, which ever emerges from the first two rounds of the stepladder qualifying series.
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