Lakers Use Big Eighth to Defeat Tigers

5/16/09

The Tigers were back at home on a brisk May afternoon to take on the Mountain Lake Lakers. Neither team's defense performed at peak levels as all twelve of the runs scored in the ballgame were unearned. The game was scheduled as a seven inning match-up, but it required one extra inning to determine the winner.

Springfield jumped out to a three run lead in the bottom of the first, taking advantage of three Mt. Lake errors and a big two-out double by Matt Tews. Jason Nachreiner made his second start of the young season on the mound and held the Lakers off the scoreboard until the fourth when they put together two hits and took advantage of a Tiger error to cut the Springfield lead to two.

The score remained 3-1 until the sixth when Mt. Lake scored three runs with the big hit being a triple to right-center field. The Tigers tied the game at four in the home half of the sixth with another hit by Tews and the help of a Laker error.

Both teams stranded a runner in the seventh inning and the game entered extra frames knotted at four. Bryant Krebs came on for Springfield. A lead-off walk along with a couple Tiger errors and two hits yielded four runs for the visitors and an 8-4 victory.

Matt Tews led the Springfield offense with three hits in his '09 debut. Marty Brandl and Matt Baier added hits to the Tiger total. Jason Nachreiner pitched an excellent seven innings, giving up just five hits while striking out nine. Bryant Krebs got the loss, going one inning and striking out two. The Tigers are back in action on Sunday when they travel to Essig to battle the Bluejays.


Linescore

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E LOB
Mountain Lake 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 4 8 7 4 12
Springfield 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 5 7

Springfield Box

AB R H RBI BB SO
Sather, 2B/CF 4 0 0 0 0 1
Brandl, RF 4 1 1 0 0 0 2B
Baier, SS 4 1 1 0 0 0
Beers, LF 3 0 0 0 0 1 HP
Tews, 1B/2B 4 2 3 2 0 0 2B
Krebs, CF/P 3 0 0 0 0 2
   Helget, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0
Miesen, C 3 0 0 0 1 1
A. Wilhelmi, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 2
Nachreiner, P/1B 3 0 0 0 0 0
33 4 5 2 1 7
IP H R ER BB SO
Nachreiner 7    5 4 0 6 9
Krebs (L, 0-1) 1    2 4 0 1 2

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