Oriole Pitchers Baffle Tigers

6/3/09

The Tigers were back in action on Wednesday night in Leavenworth. Gabe Hirsch and Andy Cook combined to fan Springfield batters twenty times en route to a 5-1 victory.

Jason Nachreiner took the hill against his former team. The Orioles jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second, taking advantage of two walks, a double and a Tiger error. In the top of the fourth, Brady Schwab started things with a walk. Marc Salazar was hit by a pitch to get runners on first and second. With two outs, Jordan Milbrath came through with a double, scoring Schwab, making the score 3-1.

That was as close as the Tigers would get before Leavenworth added two more runs in their half of the fifth. The Orioles put together two hits along with two walks to run to score to 5-1. Springfield greeted Andy Cook with singles from Schwab and Salazar in the top of the sixth, but he settled in to retire twelve of the final fourteen Springfield batters, including ten strikeouts.

Milbrath came on to pitch in the sixth, going two innings allowing just one hit, while walking two and striking out two. Bryant Krebs pitched the bottom of the eighth giving up one hit, a walk, and getting one strikeout.

Jason Nachreiner took the loss going the first five innings. The Tigers tallied five hits in the game with one each by Matt Baier, Brady Schwab, Marc Salazar, Jordan Milbrath, and Ken Sather. The loss drops Springfield's record to 3-5 in the Tomahawk East. They'll take a break from league play this weekend when they travel to St. Stephen and Sartell for the Omann Insurance Invitational Tournament.


Linescore

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB
Springfield 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 4 7
Leavenworth 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 x 5 7 0 12

Springfield Box

AB R H RBI BB SO
Baier, 3B 4 0 1 0 0 2
Schwab, C 3 1 1 0 1 1
Salazar, 1B 3 0 1 0 0 2 HP
C. Sturm, LF 4 0 0 0 0 2
Eckstein, 2B 3 0 0 0 0 3
   Fink, RF 1 0 0 0 0 1
Milbrath, CF/P 3 0 1 1 0 2 2B
   Krebs, P 0 0 0 0 1 0
Brandl, DH 4 0 0 0 0 3
Nachreiner, P - - - - - -
   Haseleu, 2B - - - - - -
Christensen, SS 4 0 0 0 0 2
Sather, RF/CF 3 0 1 0 0 2
32 1 5 1 2 20
IP H R ER BB SO
Nachreiner (L, 0-3) 5    5 5 3 5 2
Milbrath 2    1 0 0 2 2
Krebs 1    1 0 0 1 1

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