Mequon, WI — In the top of the ninth inning, pitcher Alex Redman entered from the bullpen for the Lakeshore Chinooks (6-6), who trailed the Green Bay Rockers (3-9) by a run. Against his first batter, a well-hit ball found the glove of a leaping ‘Nooks 2B Ty Wisdom. But two batters later, the Rockers socked a pitch to left field for a 2-RBI double to extend the lead and give them a 9-6 lead. Later in the inning, a 2-RBI triple iced the game for Green Bay, sending Lakeshore to its second loss in a row.<\/p>\n
Just like Saturday, the Chinooks fell behind in the top of the first. Green Bay’s Lukas Torres (Wagner) led off the game with a home run against Chinooks starting pitcher Andrew Neill, but Neill retired the next three batters.<\/p>\n
Coming out of the pen, Andrew Neill tossed four innings of one-run ball in his first outing and was rewarded with his first start Sunday.<\/p>\n
Lakeshore also had a productive first at bat, but with different scoring results. AJ Garcia singled on the first pitch he saw, and Prince Deboskie brought two on with no outs. But a strikeout and two groundouts would strand two runners.<\/p>\n
Neill settled into the game in the next three innings with three more strikeouts, giving his offense an opportunity to heat up on the sunny – but very windy – Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
In the second, the bottom of the Chinooks lineup stranded two more on base.<\/p>\n
Lakeshore would finally break through in the bottom of the third. After Deboskie flew out to deep left, 1B Gene Trujillo drew a walk, RF Connor Hennings legged out a single and Chinooks LF Dominic Kibler hit an RBI single to center. The Rockers then made a mental mistake, balking home a run to give the Chinooks a 2-1 lead through three.<\/p>\n
Lakeshore kept its foot on the gas in the fourth. With two on and two out, Wisdom knocked an RBI single to right. Trujillo did him one better, absolutely blasting a double off the right field wall for his first extra-base hit as a Chinook. The lead had ballooned to 5-1 for the ‘Nooks.<\/p>\n
Green Bay got its balk back in the top of the fifth when Neill tried to pick off a runner at first base. The runner on second then scampered home on a hard-hit single, and Neill walked the next batter. Neill’s final line would show an earned run in each of the first and the fifth to bookend his outing.<\/p>\n
The Rockers weren’t done. A sac fly cut the Chinooks’ lead to two and another RBI single cut it to one, but pitcher Adam Switalski was finally able to stop the bleeding and maintain the 5-4 lead.<\/p>\n
Neither his outing nor the Lakeshore lead would last long. An infield single and a pitcher error on Switalski chased him from the game and brought in second-year Chinook Arthur Liebau. Immediately, Green Bay hit a\u00a02-RBI triple to left and followed it with an RBI single to center, regaining the advantage.<\/p>\n
With the Chinooks down 7-5 in the top of the seventh, and having lost all momentum,\u00a0Chinooks 3B Billy Scaldeferri made a potentially game-saving catch. He ran down a pop fly in foul territory to help Liebau, who rewarded his effort with a strikeout to end another scoring threat for the Rockers.<\/p>\n
Trujillo\u00a0muscled a broken bat single to right to open the seventh for Lakeshore. Then, with one out, Green Bay’s pitching staff made another costly error, this time a two-base mistake on a pickoff attempt, which Kibler made sure to score on a RBI groundout.<\/p>\n
In the top of the eighth with his team still in striking distance, Scaldeferri made another great play as he threw out the Rocker on a bunt attempt, jolting toward the ball with strong instincts.<\/p>\n
“[It’s] just staying on my toes and being ready to go wherever,” Scaldeferri said. “At the hot corner, it’s a lot of reacting and you just have to be able to stay low and keep the ball in front of you to make a play.”<\/p>\n
The third baseman nearly hit one out to tie the ball game in the bottom of the eighth. Yet as a right-handed batter on a gusty, low-70s afternoon, his drive died in right center field and the Chinooks missed out on a chance to knot the score.<\/p>\n
Then came the 2-RBI double, and later, the 2-RBI triple by the Rockers’ Lukas Torres, leaving him just a double shy of the cycle. A wild pitch allowed Green Bay to double up Lakeshore, 12-6, and finish building its insurmountable lead.<\/p>\n
Trujillo, though, added a home run to notch his third hit of the day. He fell just a triple shy of the cycle. A power hitter by nature, Trujillo said the team trusted him to create his own offense, giving him more confidence and his second scorched ball of the affair.<\/p>\n
“If we see the wind blowing out to right like it did today as a lefty sometimes we’ll try to lift the ball and get it over,” said Kibler, who had 2 RBIs.<\/p>\n
Though a 12-7 defeat wasn’t the ideal result, the team now sits at .500 with a 6-6 record and a schedule this week featuring teams that mostly sit below them in the Northwoods League rankings.<\/p>\n
Lakeshore gets an opportunity for revenge tomorrow on the road at 6:35 p.m. at Capital Credit Union Park in Green Bay, WI.<\/p>\n
Article written by David Jacobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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