FL Joliet Slammers

Slammers Fall to Normal in First Exhibition Game of Year

Published on May 7, 2013 under Frontier League (FL)
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(Joliet, IL) - The Joliet Slammers came up just short in the first spring training game of the year Tuesday, falling to the Normal CornBelters by a final of 4-3.

Nearly 3,000 kids from area schools turned out for Education Day presented by Lewis University .

The score of this 11-inning tune-up game at Silver Cross Field really did not matter, with a spring roster of 36 that needs to be cut down to at most 24 players, what did matter was what first-year Manager Mike Breyman thought of his club's performance.

"I saw some things I liked and some things I didn't like," Breyman said. "We seemed a bit timid early, the guys just need to go out and play."

The CornBelters jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning off of a sacrifice fly to right field by catcher David Remedios, scoring center fielder Matt Wright on the play.

After a quick one, two, three bottom half of the first inning for Joliet, Normal was not done in the top of the second, sending eight batters to the plate and scoring two more runs.

The bases were loaded after the two runs had already scored but Joliet starting pitcher Seth Lintz managed to strand the Normal base runners after getting the sixth and seventh batters he faced in the inning to strikeout and the eighth to groundout to short.

"Things could have been a lot worse," Breyman said. "In the second inning we gave up two runs but it easily could have been four."

Slammers' pitcher Corey Kimes pitched two scoreless innings in the third and fourth, but Normal made the game 4-0 after scoring one run in the fifth off right handed pitcher Seth Marcus.

Joliet did manage to score three runs with two coming in the 10 th inning.

Another bright spot for Joliet was left fielder Seth Schwindenhammer who went 2-4 at the plate with a double in the fourth and a line drive single in the 10 th inning. Schwindenhammer also scored in that inning to make the game 4-3.

Joliet's pitching was also strong after the fifth, holding the CornBelters scoreless for the remainder of the contest.

The Slammers have an off day tomorrow and will have a second crack against the CornBelters on Thursday in Normal, IL.

You can listen to Thursday's exhibition game on the Slammers Ustream channel, ustream.tv/jolietslammers . First pitch is at 10:05 a.m. Central Time.

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