Beach Bums Fall In Game One
Published on September 9, 2010 under Frontier League (FL)
Traverse City Beach Bums News Release
CRESTWOOD, IL - In their first ever playoff game, the Traverse City Beach Bums locked up with the Windy City ThunderBolts in a pitcher's duel for six innings before Windy City scored in the seventh on their way to a 5-1 final.
The ThunderBolts lead the best-of-five series 1-0.
The Beach Bums cracked the scoreboard for the first time in the sixth inning. Matt Brown led off the frame with a single and was sacrificed to center by Michael Diaz. Two batters later, J. T. Hall took an outside corner fastball the other way, singling to left to score Brown for a 1-0 Traverse City lead.
TC would hold the lead into the bottom of the seventh until Windy City rallied for five runs, sending ten men to the plate to take a 5-1 lead.
Windy City was able to make the runs stand up despite the Beach Bums threatening in both the eighth and ninth. Dustin Williams (1-0) picked up the win allowing one run in seven plus innings. Enrique Lechuga (0-1) took the loss for the Beach Bums, tossing six shutout innings before running into seventh inning trouble.
Offensively, J. T. Hall had two hits for the Beach Bums and Matt Brown reached base three times with a single and two walks.
Game two of the series comes up on Friday with Kevin Reese (10-9, 4.47) on the mound for Traverse City against Andrew Werner (11-5, 3.35) for Windy City. The Beach Bums first home playoff game will be on Saturday, September 11 at 7:05 p.m. The Beach Bums will honor heroes in the community as Fire, EMS and police will be admitted to the ballpark for $5 for a chairback seat. Fireworks will follow the game. For more information or tickets, call 943-0100 or log on to www.tcbeachbums.com.
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