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Ugly Seventh Dooms Tigers Against Long Sox

5/18/14

Springfield hosted Lamberton on Sunday night in their 2014 home opener. A few sprinkles fell several different times during the game, but there were no interruptions by the rain. The game got off to a great start, as hurlers Jason Nachreiner and Johnny Pistulka combined to allow just one hit and no runs through six innings. The seventh saw all of the game's runs, with the Long Sox plating six, on their way to a 6-1 win.

During his six innings, Nachreiner worked around three Tiger errors, including leaving the bases loaded in the fifth.

Jacob Menage stroked Springfield's first hit to start the bottom of the third. Then Pistulka worked his way out of the inning with a pair of strikeouts and a groundout. A pair of walks in the fourth were left stranded, as well.

After six no-hit innings, Nachreiner was lifted for Alex Frank who had notched saves for Springfield in the first two games of the young season. Frank got a pop-out to start the inning, but then the next seven batters would reach base via five hits, an error, and a third strike to the backstop. Dylan Bunting's single drove in two and Pistulka helped himself with an RBI double.

The Long Sox built a 6-0 lead by the time Springfield went to the bullpen again for Cole Milbrath. Milbrath hit the first batter, but got a fly out to stop the bleeding.

Matt Vogel reached via an error in the home half of the seventh. A wild pitch and passed ball moved him around to third. Menage drove in the Tigers' lone run with his second hit of the night to make the score 6-1.

Milbrath and Pistulka exchanged zeros in the eighth and ninth to give the Long Sox the five-run victory.

Jacob Menage accounted for all the Springfield offense with two hits. Seven different batters had one hit each for Lamberton. Johnny Pistulka earned the complete game win, allowing just one unearned run on two hits, while striking out sixteen. Alex Frank was tagged with the loss, working two-thirds of an inning, giving up six runs, four earned, on six hits with two strikeouts.

The loss drops the Tigers to 2-1 on the season. They'll continue the home stand with a match-up against Hanska next Sunday night at 7:30pm. The new scoreboard will be up and running, come on down and check it out!

NOTES: The game marked the second time in as many seasons in which Jacob Menage had the only hit(s) for the Tigers. In 2013, he singled with two out in the ninth to break up a no-hitter in New Ulm against the Brewers...Former Redwood Falls Redbird, Austin Kretsch, made his Springfield debut at shortstop. Redwood Falls does not have a team this season...Kretsch turned in an amazing play in which he dove into a somersault, got up, flipped his hat off, and threw the runner out at first...The Renew Riverside Park project saw major progress this week as the new inning-by-inning scoreboard was installed beyond the rightfield fence on Thursday. The old scoreboard was used for the last time in this contest. Training and final setup of the new scoreboard will take place on Monday...The Springfield High School Tigers will be playing in the Section 3A playoffs on Saturday with the new scoreboard making it's big debut for three games taking place at Riverside Park...The Tigers' 16 strikeouts was the most times they fanned in a game since the 2013 opener against Lake Crystal when they struck out 17 times.


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Springfield Box

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