Belter Gem Gives Beach Bums Top Seed
August 28, 2012 - Frontier League (FL)
Traverse City Beach Bums News Release
TRAVERSE CITY, MI - Brooks Belter pitched seven shutout innings, striking out a career high eight batters as the Traverse City Beach Bums clinched the top seed in the Frontier League playoffs with a 4-1 win over the Gateway Grizzlies.
Scoreless into the fourth inning, the Beach Bums got on the board when Chase Burch hit a solo homer off Grizzlies starter Paul Tremlin. For Burch it was his 16th of the season and gave him 30 RBI in his career against Gateway in 16 games.
Traverse City would tally the remainder of their offense in the fifth inning as Sean Gusrang led off with a walk followed by a Marcus Nidiffer single. Kyle Eveland laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to move the runners up a base before a Ryan Still walk loaded the bases. Brian Heere stood in and drew a walk of his own to force home Gusrang for a 2-0 TC lead. Jose Vargas capped the scoring with a line drive back through the middle to bring home Nidiffer and Still to make it 4-0.
Gateway made a bit of noise scoring their only run of the game in the ninth on a bases loaded walk by Chris McClendon to bring home Antone DeJesus, but Matt Miller came on and got Rogelio Noris strike out to end the game.
Belter (10-2) earned the win tossing seven shutout innings, scattering five hits. With the victory, the right-hander became just the sixth pitcher in Beach Bums history with double-digit wins in a single season.
Game two of the series comes up on Wednesday where it is Gas Night at Wuerfel Park with the price of your chairback seat costing just the price of a gallon of gas ($4). It is also a Weenie Wednesday with dollar hot dogs and a dollar off brats and the half-pound Hawg Dog. Kurt Wunderlich (2-0, 4.97) will get the start for Traverse City against Alex Kaminsky (10-4, 3.43) for Gateway.
Beach Bums playoff tickets go are on sale now! Traverse City will have home games on Wednesday, September 5 and Thursday, September 6 with a game five of the division series coming up on September 10 (if necessary). Playoff tickets will cost $10 with general admission seating for all Beach Bums playoff games. Private tables will be $50 per game and suites at Wuerfel Park will be just $100 for up to 10 people. For tickets to all Beach Bums home games, regular season or playoffs, call 943-0100, visit tcbeachbums.com or stop by the Wuerfel Park ticket office.
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