Miners Sputter in Schaumburg
Published on August 4, 2015 under Frontier League (FL)
Southern Illinois Miners News Release
Marion, Ill. (August 4, 2015) - The Southern Illinois Miners fell behind early, then tied the game with a two-out RBI in the third inning, but the Schaumburg Boomers took control with a four-run fifth inning and did not look back from there, defeating the Miners 6-1 on Tuesday night at Boomers Stadium in the first game of a three-game series and a six-game road trip for Southern Illinois.
After the Boomers got an unearned run in the first off Matt Bywater (8-4), the Miners got a two-out rally to tie the game in the third. Aaron Gates was able to get on with an 11-pitch at-bat against Schaumburg starter Raul Jacobson (2-2), and Michael Earley lifted a single to center field that kicked off the glove of a diving Alexi Colon, scoring Gates all the way from first base to tie the score at 1-1.
But Bywater and the Miners ran into trouble in the fifth. After a single, double and walk loaded the bases with no one out, Ty Nelson hit a bases-clearing double to right to give Schaumburg a 4-1 lead. An RBI single by Willi Martin later in the frame made the score 5-1, with the Boomers eventually scoring another run in the seventh for the final margin.
Bywater struck out seven to raise his league-leading total to 116 on the season, and the Miners got two hits apiece from Earley and Frank Martinez, as well as a third-inning single by Steve Marino that extended his hitting streak to seven in a row, but could not muster up enough offense on a night where the visitors did not get a single baserunner with less than two outs in any inning until the ninth. The Boomers' rookie right-hander Jacobson lasted seven and two-thirds innings, fanning six and allowing just one run on five hits to get the win.
The Miners will look to even the series on Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. with Adam Lopez starting on the mound opposite Boomers righty Taylor Thurber.
The Southern Illinois Miners are the 2014 Frontier League East Division Champions and the 2012 Frontier League Champions. They have been awarded the Frontier League Organization of the Year award three times since their inception, and also set a new Frontier League attendance record in 2007, their inaugural season. For ticket information, contact the Rent One Park box office at 618-998-8499. For any additional information, visit our website at www.southernillinoisminers.com.
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