FL River City Rascals

Ledbetter Wins in First Game Back

Published on August 16, 2007 under Frontier League (FL)
River City Rascals News Release


O'Fallon, MO - The River City Rascal fans welcomed former Rascal Aaron Ledbetter back home for the first time since he was traded to the Washington Wild Things last season, but Ledbetter wore out his welcome as Washington won 10-5 on the back of 12 Ledbetter strikeouts.

Ledbetter, who won 24 games with River City, and the East leading Wild Things were trying to avoid the sweep. Six innings, three runs, two earned and 12 strikeouts later, Ledbetter left in line for his twelfth win.

"I felt a little nervous and really kind of anxious out there," Ledbetter said after the game. "These fans were great when I was here and it was fun to come back."

River City was trailing 2-0 entering the fourth. Wild Thing catcher Pat O'Brien hit a solo homerun off Rascal starter Bryan Hansen in the top of the inning. Jeff Miller led off reaching on a Ryan Bethel error, then Ledbetter left a curveball up to Trey Hendricks and the left fielder drove it out over the high wall in right for his eighth and the game was tied 2-2.

"I felt I threw that ball really well tonight," Ledbetter continued. "But I made one mistake and it was hit out of the ballpark."

The Wild Things were trailing 3-2 going in the sixth inning when Hansen allowed the first two to reach. With runners at the corners and no outs, Jordan Thomson came in and an RBI single followed. Three more runs would later score in the inning off a Chris Sidick double and Robbie Knapp single.

Leading now 6-3, Washington put another three spot up in the seventh which was capped off by a Eric Earnhart homerun, a two run shot, his first of the season, and it was 9-3 Washington.

Travis Risser came in for Washington and the Rascals put up one run in the seventh on another Hendricks RBI. Hendricks finished 2-5 with a homerun, three RBI and two runs scored. The last Rascal run came in the ninth after Brad Hough drove in Hendricks.

The twelve strikeouts were a career high for Ledbetter (12-1), who now is the first Frontier League pitcher in the 15 year history to reach 40 career wins.

Hansen (1-5) went five innings, allowing four runs, all earned, eight hits, two walks and one strikeout.

Justin Young and Patrick Muldoon made their Rascal debuts and the two combined to go 2.2 innings, only allowing one run.

River City dropped to 32-47 and Washington improved to 45-33 and still lead the East by 7.5 games over Chillicothe. The Rascals host the Slippery Rock Sliders on Friday night at 7:05 pm. Steve Brook (9-5) will take the mound for River City.

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