Phillips Paces Beach Bums Past Boomers 7-3
Published on August 1, 2014 under Frontier League (FL)
Traverse City Beach Bums News Release
TRAVERSE CITY, MI - Alex Phillips authored a phenomenal eight innings on the mound and the Traverse City Beach Bums provided plenty of offense to defeat the Schaumburg Boomers 7-3 on Friday night at Wuerfel Park.
Phillips (2-6) needed just 100 pitches to get through his eight innings, facing the minimum three batters in five of his eight frames. The eight innings were a career-high for the left-hander, who struck out four and walked three in his outing.
Traverse City built a 3-0 lead for Phillips with runs in the first two innings against Schaumburg starter Hunter Ackerman. Jose Vargas drove home his seventh run of the series with a first-inning single to make it 1-0 before TC added a pair of tallies in the second on a Jake Rhodes RBI single and a Jeff DeBlieux RBI base knock.
Schaumburg briefly tied the game with three runs in the top of the fourth, but the Beach Bums had a prompt answer. Rob Benedict led off with a single, was sacrificed to second and scored on a Yazy Arbelo double to push TC ahead 4-3.
The Beach Bums added to their lead with three runs in the sixth inning off of Ackerman (3-2). With a runner at second, DeBlieux smacked a single up the middle to make it 5-3 before scoring on a RBI groundout off the bat of Arbelo. Jovan Rosa followed with an RBI single, his third hit of the night, to up the advantage to 7-3.
Phillips did the rest of the work, not allowing a hit after the three-run fourth inning. He gave way to Will Rankin in the ninth, who promptly struck out the side to finish out the game.
Four Beach Bums ended up with multi-hit games in the contest: Benedcit (2-for-3, 2 R), DeBlieux (2-for-4, R, 2 RBI), Vargas (2-for-5, R, RBI), and Rosa (3-for-4, 2B, RBI).
Traverse City now hits the road for a three-game series against the Florence Freedom. Ian MacDougall (3-3, 3.76) is scheduled to start for the Beach Bums against the Freedom's Casey Henn (5-4, 2.99). First pitch from UC Health Stadium is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. ET. Those unable to make the game can listen to the broadcast starting at 5:45 p.m. on Classic Rock the Bear 98.1/107.1 and classicrockthebear.com.
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