Flyers fall to Dawgs

July 22, 2006 - Golden Baseball League (GBL)
Orange County Flyers News Release


On a beautiful night at Tony Gwynn Stadium, the Surf Dawgs picked up their fourth win in a row, defeating the Fullerton Flyers 6-2. The four-game winning streak is the longest of the season for San Diego. Starting pitcher Chris Gale (1-4) went 5 1/3 innings and tied a career-high with six strikeouts for his first victory of 2006.

Seth Pietsch, 1-for-4, extended his consecutive games on base streak to 34 games and his hitting streak to 15 games tonight.

Ryan Fox, who joined the Surf Dawgs earlier in the day, made his first appearance tonight playing left field after Scott Goodman was ejected disputing a play at home plate. Fox is a pitcher as well as a fielder and in his first at bat with San Diego he hit a broken-bat single to left field.

The Surf Dawgs, who have been playing brilliant, effective baseball as of late, scored first in the second inning with fundamental baseball. San Diego loaded the bases with one out. A seeing-eye single right up the box by Adam Mandel, who went a perfect 5-for-5 with a double and RBI, etched the first run. A sacrifice fly by second-place hitter Tony Garcia gave the Dawgs a 2-0 lead.

Four singles with two outs in the third inning pushed the lead to 3-0. A Peanut Williams homerun, his GBL record 16th of the season, was the only blemish on Gale's evening.

Another two out rally in the sixth pushed the lead to 5-1. With two outs and Adam Mandel on second, Seth Pietsch singled to score him. A Scott Goodman double scored Pietsch all the way from first. But controversy stewed when Matt Maloney singled through the left side. A throw to the plate was late, but a quick swipe caught a stunned Scott Goodman by utter shock. Words were exchanged, and Goodman was tossed. Manager Terry Kennedy was also steamed but managed to clear the play from his mind before he was thrown out of the game.

An unearned run was all the Flyers could muster the rest of the way. The Surf Dawgs would plate one more run in the bottom of the eighth to increase their lead to four. Chris George pitched two shutout innings for his first save of 2006.

Tomorrow the Surf Dawgs (4-1, 20-25) will send All-Star starting pitcher Justin Ottman (3-2) to the hill in search of his fourth victory of 2006. The Flyers (2-4, 19-27) will counter with Chris Jakubauskas (3-1). First pitch is at 6:05 p.m. PT.



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