Kroll records best pro outing
Published on August 6, 2005 under Frontier League (FL)
Evansville Otters News Release
Brian Kroll pitched a career best seven innings and Jeff Goldbach and Trask Munoz each hit fifth inning homers as the Evansville Otters beat the Gateway Grizzlies 4-2 on Saturday night.
The Otters took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when with two outs and Munoz on second, Denver Stuckey reached on an error by Ryan Sullivan to score Munoz. Gateway tied the game with a run in the third and the Otters came back with one in the fourth to make it 2-1.
With one out in the fifth, Goldbach drilled an Eric Dessau pitch over the leftfield fence for his sixth homer of the season to put the Otters up 3-1. Munoz came up two batters later and took the short porch in right out of play, hitting one over the second level of fencing, past the scoreboard to make it 4-1 Evansville.
The game would remain that way until the eight when Anthony Del Prete loaded the bases with no one out. Kyle Pawelczyk came in and allowed a sacrifice fly to make the score 4-2 and record the first out. After a walk to Ben Margalski to reload the bases, Ryan Burnau came in and got Phil Warren to line out to John Coker in left. Shawn Smarsh thought the ball was going to drop and had already rounded third. Coker threw to second to double off Smarsh and end the inning.
After Gary Gilbert singled to lead off the ninth, Burnau struck out the side to end the game for his fourth save.
Kroll went seven allowing five hits and one run in upping his record to 3-4.
Ben Foster (8-2) will start tomorrow for the Otters in a battle of aces against Brandon Smith (8-3) going for Gateway. Game time is 6:05 and can be heard on 91.5 WUEV.
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