Tigers Win Season Opener 7-2 Despite Eight Error
(--by Brett Kruschke)
| 5/5/06 | 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
R |
H |
E |
| Young America | 0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
| Belle Plaine | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
X |
7 |
9 |
8 |
Belle Plaine , Minn. -
I’ve seen my share of baseball games over the years, but I’d like to know if anybody else has ever seen a team commit eight errors, and yet win by five runs. I know I never have. And I’m still not quite sure how to explain it. But that’s what happened – against a pretty quality club in Young America (15-10, 9-7 in the Crow River last year) – on Friday.
Tiger starter Shane Hofmann worked around errors early, but a pair more finally caught up to him in the 4 th, when Young America pushed across the game’s first two runs. Meanwhile, Cardinal starter Jeff Arnold was putting a bow on his five shutout innings, which included 10 strikeouts.
Halfway home, things were looking bleak, but with the magic of prom night in the air, two young Tigers sought to make it “A Night to Remember.”
Manager Dave Kreft got bang-up relief work from Dave Feldt and Jonny Schulz, to put it mildly: the two combined to throw five scoreless innings, allowing only a ninth-inning single, with Schulz recording the save. The dazzling duo also wreaked havoc with the sticks, going 3-for-7 with 3 RBIs. Mantle / Maris, Mauer / Morneau… Feldt / Schulz??
The Tigers big inning was the 6 th, as they roughed up reliever Brandon Stender and plated five before it was all over. They added two more in their last cracks in the 8 th, for the final total.
There was some excitement in the 8 th, when yours truly slid into third and grotesquely dislocated my left pinky finger, but luckily EMT Brad Connolly was on hand to help out. I’d also like to mention that I really can’t afford to take out an ad in next week’s Herald to thank everyone for all the flowers, cards, and well-wishes, so hopefully this will suffice.
Making their Tiger, and town team, debuts, were Ben Jass and Ryan Dressen. And yes, that’s a fine.
| Belle Plaine TIGERS (1-0, 0-0) | ||||||
AB |
R |
H |
RBI |
BB |
Avg. |
|
| Volek, lf-2b | 5 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
.400 |
| Kreft, 3b | 3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| P. Schultz, c | 2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
.000 |
| Weldon, cf | 3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
.333 |
| R. Witt, 1b | 3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
.333 |
| N. Selly, ph | 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| Feldt, rf-p-rf | 3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
.667 |
| Dressen, pr | 0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| Connolly, dh | 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| S. Hofmann, p | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| Schuneman, rf-lf | 3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
.000 |
| J. Schulz, 2b-p | 4 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
.250 |
| Kruschke, pr | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| Jass, ss | 4 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
.500 |
| TOTALS | 32 |
7 |
9 |
7 |
4 |
.282 |
| 2B – Weldon. 3B – none. HR – none. | ||||||
| HBP – none. SB – R.Witt. | ||||||
| Pitcher | IP |
H |
R/ER |
BB/K |
NP |
ERA |
| S. Hofmann | 4 |
3 |
2/1 |
2/1 |
66 |
2.25 |
| Feldt (W, 1-0) | 2 |
0 |
0/0 |
1/0 |
30 |
0 |
| J. Schulz (Sv, 1) | 3 |
1 |
0/0 |
1/2 |
45 |
0 |
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