Broncos' wildness costs them in loss
June 20, 2009 - United League Baseball (ULB)
Laredo Broncos News Release
Robstown, TX-The Laredo Broncos pitchers walked 9 batters as they lost to the Costal Bend Thunder by a score of 12-2 at Fairgrounds Field.
For the 2nd night in a row, the Broncos jumped out to an early lead in the 1st. with 2 outs Mario Mendez singled. That was followed by a walk to Argelis Nunez. The next batter Andres Santos delivered with a rbi single, scoring Mendez and giving Laredo the 1-0 lead.
And for the 2nd straight night, the Thunder would answer back in their half of the 1st. with 2 outs Leivi Ventura singled and then went to 2nd on a walk to Manny Mejia. That was followed by Mike Gross being hit by a pitch to load the bases against Broncos starter Dave Wasylak. Amadeo Zazueta would then hit a 2 run single scoring both Ventura and Mejia. Gross would go to 3rd and Zazueta to 2nd when OJ Garza's throw air mailed the cut off man. Then Juvy Ibarra delivered another 2 run single scoring Gross and Zazueta and making the score 4-1 in favor of Costal Bend.
Laredo would get a run back in the top of the 3rd inning when Mario Mendez connected on a solo home run, his 3rd of the season. That made the score 4-2.
The Thunder would tack on a run in the 4th inning. Dustin Smith and Michael Lewis drew back to back walks to start the inning. After a fly out advance the runners to 2nd and 3rd, Manny Mejia was intentionally walked to load the bases. Casey Gordon then came up and was also walked by Wasylak to score Smith. That would do it for Wasylak, as Edgar Soto would come into the game. Soto would get a double play to end the threat with Costal Bend leading 5-2.
Wasylak only went 3 1/3 innings for the Broncos, giving up 5 runs on 6 hits. He walked 6 batters and struck out 2.
Soto would run into his own trouble in the 5th inning. With 1 out Chris Lewis singled. Then with 2 outs Dustin Smith singled and Michael Lewis walked to load the bases. Leivi Ventura would draw the bases load walk scoring Chris Lewis. Soto's wildness would continue as he would also walk the next batter Manny Mejia scoring Smith. After the walk the Broncos first baseman Robert Moron was ejected by home plate umpire Woodie Bell for arguing balls and strikes. With Mike Gross batting, Soto would throw a wild pitch scoring Michael Lewis and moving Ventura to 3rd and Mejia to 2nd. After the wild pitch Nathan Crawford came into the game and threw a wild pitch of his own scoring Ventura. He would finally get the last out of the inning, but the Thunder would have a 9-2 lead.
Costal Bend would extend their lead in the 7th inning on rbi singles by Amadeo Zazueta and Juvy Ibarra. A Broncos error also led to another run being scored, as the Thunder took a commanding 12-2 lead.
The Broncos bats would not do anything the last two innings as they fell by a score of 12-2.
The Broncos scored 2 runs on 9 hits and had 2 errors while the Thunder scored 12 runs on 16 hits and had 1 errors.
The Broncos are now 2-8 on the season while the Thunder are 5-5. The Broncos will next be in action tomorrow Sunday June 21st as they play game 3 of a 4 game series against the Costal Bend Thunder at 6:05. You can listen to that game and all 80 Broncos games this year on www.laredobroncos.com thru our partners at www.sportsuice.com.
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