Beach Bums Drop Pitcher's Duel to Florence
Published on July 28, 2016 under Frontier League (FL)
Traverse City Beach Bums News Release
TRAVERSE CITY, MI - After last night's 5-0 shutout win, the Traverse City Beach Bums(27-36) had the tables turned on them, falling to the Florence Freedom(27-36) by the final score of 3-0.
After both teams went scoreless through the first three innings, Florence's Andrew Godbold knocked a solo home run over the left field wall, his eighth of the season, to give his club a 1-0 lead. It took until the eighth, but Florence netted a couple of important insurance runs. After Isaac Wenrich walked, and pinch-runner Shaun Cooper stole second, Andre Mercurio hit a deep fly ball to left that carried to the wall for an RBI triple. Two batters later Goldbold drove Mercurio in to score on an RBI single.
The Freedom's Cody Gray earned the win to improve to 5-1 on the year. He went six and 2/3 innings, allowing just one hit while walking five, and he struck out six. Michael Shreves had a quality start for the Bums, going seven and 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on six hits, two walks, and fanned two. He falls to 2-5 with the loss. Ethan Gibbons hurled a perfect ninth, with a strikeout, to nab his eighth save of the season.
Tomorrow night, the Beach Bums head to Evansville, IN, to start a three game series against the Evansville Otters. Felix Baez takes the hill for Evansville and Austin Bembnowski will start for the Beach Bums. First pitch is scheduled for 7:35pm and Tom Willms will have the Miller Lite Pre-Game Show at 7:15pm, on 101.9- The Bay.
Don't Forget- Coming up on Friday, August 5th, the Beach Bums are partnering with Northwest Michigan Health Services for a special evening. Also, it's another FANtastic Fireworks Friday, sponsored by 4Front Credit Union. The gates open at 5pm.
The Beach Bums Box Office & Gift Shop are now open with non-gameday hours of 10am to 6pm Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm on Saturday. Wuerfel Park is closed on non-gameday Sundays. Stadium hours are extended on gamedays.
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