Tigers Start 2006 Season With a 10 Inning Victory

Brewers Drop Tigers in Ten

7/28/06

A business thermometer read 100 degrees as the Tigers arrived at Johnson Park to start round two of the Tomahawk East League playoffs against the New Ulm Brewers.  The heat didn't hurt the starting pitchers, Ryan Walters and Matt Tews, as they matched up in a great pitcher's duel.  Neither team scored until the eighth inning, though both teams had a number of opportunities in the early innings, but were unable to take advantage of them.  In the top of the eighth, the Tigers opened scoring by putting together a single by Ryan Sturm and a double by Brady Schwab to take a 1-0 lead.  The Brewers came back in the bottom of the inning, getting a single run on two hits and aided by a Springfield error.  Both teams went down easily in the ninth. The Tigers threatened in the tenth inning, getting runners on first and second, but were unable to break the tie.  In the bottom of the tenth, New Ulm led off with a single.  A passed ball allowed the runner to move up to second.  A ground-out advanced the base runner to third.  After pitcher Brent Weber hit a batter, the Brewer third baseman hit a deep fly ball down the right field line.  Right fielder Matt Tews made the catch, but was unable to stop the runner at third from scoring, giving New Ulm the victory in game one.  The series moves to Springfield on Sunday night.  The Tigers will need a win to stay alive in the series, hoping to force game three on Tuesday night back in New Ulm.

Matt Tews started for Springfield, pitching the first 8 2/3 innings.  He gave up just five hits and one unearned run.  Brent Weber got the loss, going one inning, allowing one unearned run.  The Tigers slugged the most hits they've had in any playoff game this season with nine, but it wasn't enough.  Adam Timm and Brady Schwab led the Tigers with two hits each.  Tews, Ryan Sturm, Bob Fink, Weber, and Andy Moritz all added one hit to the Springfield total.

 

Linescore

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E LOB
Springfield 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 6 9
New Ulm 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 6 2 12


Springfield Box

AB R H RBI BB SO
Timm, SS 5 0 2 0 0 1
Tews, P/RF 4 0 1 0 0 2
R. Sturm, 1B 5 1 1 0 0 0
Schwab, 2B 5 0 2 1 0 1
   Krebs, PR 0 0 0 0 0 0
C. Sturm, CF 4 0 0 0 0 3
Fink, DH 4 0 1 0 0 1
Berg, 3B - - - - - -
Diede, LF 4 0 0 0 0 1
Weber, RF/P 4 0 1 0 0 2
   Schumacher, PR 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moritz, C 4 0 1 0 0 1
39 1 9 1 0 12
IP H R ER BB SO
Tews 8 2/3 5 1 0 2 5
Weber (L, 1-1) 1    1 1 0 0 0

 

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