Beach Bums Throttle Evansville Bullpen
June 9, 2012 - Frontier League (FL)
Traverse City Beach Bums News Release
TRAVERSE CITY, MI - The Traverse City Beach Bums took advantage of the Evansville bullpen to the tune of six runs over the final two innings as the Beach Bums downed the Otters 11-5, their sixth win in their last seven games.
The game was tied at 5-5 heading to the bottom of the seventh inning when Evansville turned things over to their relief corps and the Traverse City offense went to work. Ryan Still led off with a single and two batters later, moved to second on a single by Chase Burch. Jeff Flagg followed suit, delivering a base hit to right to score Still and give the Beach Bums a 6-5 lead. Jose Vargas came through with a single of his own, scoring Burch to make it 7-5.
More offense ensued in the eighth as a pitching change did not help Otters' cause. After Brian Heere singled and Still walked, Burch lined a single to center to score Heere and make it 8-5. Flagg came up next and laced a double the other way down the right field line to bring in Still and up the Traverse City lead to four runs. Vargas brought home Burch with a single and Marcus Nidiffer hit a sac fly to center to score Flagg and when the dust had settled, the Beach Bums had opened up an 11-5 lead.
Nick Capito (3-0) earned the win with 2.1 perfect innings of relief, striking out three. Jason Mattila also pitched well, tossing a career long 3.1 innings.
The offense in the game got started right off the bat with both teams scoring first inning runs. After Evansville plated one in the top of the frame, an RBI triple from Kyle Colligan scored Still who had doubled and a Burch groundout brought home Colligan for a 2-1 TC edge.
Evansville would come back with three in the fourth to take a 4-2 lead, but the Beach Bums answered with three of their own in the bottom of the inning, keyed by a Vargas homer. Overall in the game, Vargas had three hits and four RBI, pushing his totals to six hits and seven RBI in the series.
Flagg also had three hits and drove in three for Traverse City while Burch, Still, Colligan and Nidiffer each had multi-hit games.
In the series finale, Brooks Belter (2-0, 3.77) will start for Traverse City against Dan Blewett (1-1, 0.69) for Evansville. It is a Family FUNday Sunday with a team headshot poster giveaway. Kids chairback tickets are half price with the purchase of an adult chairback seat, children ages 5-12 can run the bases after the game and there will be a full team postgame autograph session. For tickets or information, call 943-0100 or visit www.tcbeachbums.com.
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