Springfield Slugs Their Way Past Gibbon

5/26/08

It was a perfect Memorial Day afternoon for a baseball game as the Tigers wrapped up their three game homestand with a game against the Gibbon Reds. The home team continued their hot hitting and notched a 4-2 victory.

Jake Miesen started on the mound. He allowed a lead-off walk who came around to score after a double and a sacrifice fly, giving the Reds a 1-0 lead. After allowing the run in the first, Miesen allowed just one runner to get as far as third base during his seven innings of work.

The Tigers lost three base runners in the first two innings. It was clear that hits were needed to move the runners around the bases. Those hits started coming in bunches in the Tiger half of the fourth. Matt Tews, Ryan Sturm, and Bob Fink all singled to load the bases. Adam Beers came through with a base hit that scored two, giving Springfield the lead, 2-1.

In the bottom of the fifth, Matt Baier started things with a single. Tews moved him up to second with a sacrifice bunt. Sturm singled and Fink followed with a RBI base hit, giving the home team a two run lead, 3-1. The final Springfield run was scored in the sixth. Andy Moritz smashed a one-out single. Brandon Wilhelmi followed with a base hit, moving Moritz to third. Baier picked up a run-batted-in with a sacrifice fly to left, pushing the Springfield lead to three.

Jesse Berg came on in relief of Miesen in the top of the eighth. He yielded a single run in the ninth, on a walk and a Gibbon single, giving us the final of 4-2.

Miesen picked up his second win of the season, giving him a perfect 2-0 record. Berg notched a save, working the final two innings in relief. Springfield will travel to the west on Friday night to take on the 5-1 Lamberton Long Sox in an 8pm game. They'll be looking to avenge the season opening loss to the Long Sox at Riverside Park. We'll see you in Lamberton!

Linescore

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB
Gibbon 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 1 6
Springfield 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 X 4 16 2 12

Springfield Box

AB R H RBI BB SO
Wilhelmi, SS 4 0 3 0 0 0
   C. Moritz, PH 1 0 1 0 0 0
Baier, CF/3B 3 1 1 1 1 0 SAC
Tews, 2B 4 1 2 0 0 0 SAC
   Haseleu, 2B - - - - - -
R. Sturm, 1B 5 1 3 0 0 0
Fink, RF 4 0 4 1 0 0
   Neidt, RF - - - - - -
Groebner, DH 3 0 0 0 1 1
Miesen, P - - - - - -
   Krebs, CF - - - - - -
Beers, LF 4 0 1 2 0 1
Berg, 3B/P 3 0 0 0 0 1
   Brandl, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0
A. Moritz, C 3 1 1 0 0 0 HP
35 4 16 4 2 3
IP H R ER BB SO
Miesen (W, 2-0) 7    5 1 1 1 7
Berg (SV, 1) 2    1 1 1 1 1

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