Beach Bums Power Past Wild Things for Doubleheader Sweep

Published on August 10, 2014 under Frontier League (FL)
Traverse City Beach Bums News Release


WASHINGTON, PA - The Traverse City Beach Bums pounded their way to a 13-8 win in the opening game of Sunday's doubleheader against the Washington Wild Things before rallying in the seventh inning in the nightcap for a 6-4 victory, earning a series victory in the process.

Traverse City used the long ball in the first game to open up a big lead. Jovan Rosa started what turned out to be a tremendous day with a two-run, opposite field shot in the first. Scott Woodward's RBI single in the top of the third pushed TC ahead 3-0. After a walk to Yazy Arbelo, Rosa connected on his second homer of the game and eighth of the year, a three-run missile to left field, doubling the advantage to 6-0.

In the fifth inning, it was Arbelo who supplied the power with his 15th homer of the year, a three-run blast to push the lead to 9-0. After giving up a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth, Traverse City responded with four more runs in the top of the sixth. Rob Benedict brought home two runs on a single before he scored on an error by the first baseman. Rosa added his franchise-record sixth RBI of the game on a sac fly to up the advantage to 13-2.

Washington put up six runs in the span of six batters in the last of the sixth, but got no closer. Scott Vachon (2-1) picked up the win in the first game for Traverse City by allowing two runs on six hits in five innings. A.J. Holland (0-2) gave up six runs on five hits in three innings to take the loss.

In the nightcap, Washington jumped out a 4-1 lead through the first three innings with all four of their runs scoring with two outs. Sean Gusrang provided the Beach Bums' first run with a two-out RBI double in the second.

TC loaded the bases with one out in the fifth inning, but Al Yevoli got out of it with back-to-back strikeouts. In the sixth inning, though, Yevoli gave up the second RBI double of the game to Gusrang, cutting the Washington lead to 4-2. The Wild Things brought in closer Jonathan Kountis, who got the next two batters in order.

Kountis (1-3) wasn't so lucky in the seventh, however, as Traverse City served him his second blown save of the year with a four-run rally. Benedict started the charge with a leadoff triple and scored on a Scott Woodward RBI groundout, making it 4-3. Arbelo singled and was pinch-ran for by Jeff DeBlieux who raced home on a triple to right-center from Rosa, knotting the game at four. Kevin Taylor followed with a go-ahead RBI single to give TC its first lead of the contest. Gusrang smacked his third double of the game to push Taylor around third, and he scored on a throwing error to make it 6-4.

Will Rankin, who had fired a perfect sixth inning, tossed the seventh inning and gave up a one-out double to Scott Kalamar. With two outs, C.J. Beatty flied out to the warning track to end the game. Rankin (5-2) got the win in relief of Rusty Shellhorn, who gave up four runs on seven hits in five innings.

Rosa had a huge day for Traverse City, going a combined 6-for-7 with a double, triple, two homers, four runs scored and seven RBI. Benedict (4-for-8, 2B, 3B, 4 R, 2 RBI), Woodward (2-for-8, 3 R, RBI), Arbelo (3-for-7, HR, 3 R, 3 RBI), and Gusrang (3-for-8, 3 2B, 2 RBI) all recorded at least one multi-hit game during the twinbill.

Having won three consecutive series, the Beach Bums now return home for a season-long nine-game homestand. Traverse City welcomes in the Florence Freedom for a three-game set starting on Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. Tanner Tripp (1-7, 4.97) will start for TC. In addition to a typical Two-for-Tuesday where fans can two chairback seats for the price of one, one lucky fan will win two round trip tickets to New Orleans as part of Mardi Gras night. Fans can listen to the broadcast starting at 6:45 p.m. on Classic Rock the Bear 98.1/107.1 and classicrockthebear.com.

Share: Facebook | Twitter/X | LinkedIn | Reddit | Email



Frontier League Stories from August 10, 2014


The opinions expressed in this release are those of the organization issuing it, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of OurSports Central or its staff.

OurSports Central