
Rippers Drop Season Opener
May 18, 2012 - Frontier League (FL)
London Rippers News Release
MARION, ILLINOIS - The pre- game excitement didn't equate to runs as the London
Rippers were shut out by the Southern Illinois Miners, 7-0.
The Rippers were playing in their first game in franchise history and thus, many
franchise firsts
- including the first batter (Justino Cuevas), first pitcher (Sheng-An
Kuo) and first hit (Stephen Cardullo).
Unfortunately, the first run and first win will have to wait for another game.
David Harden started the game for the Miners and went 6 strong innings, striking out
four and giving up only 1 hit. He had five 3 up-3 down innings and at one point, had
retired 13 in a row.
Rippers
'
starter, Sheng-An Kuo, was just as effective, throwing 5 innings, while giving
up only two runs (one earned) on two hits and striking out four.
Miner's first baseman,
Matt Fields, hit his first home run of the season in the bottom of
the 4th for the only earned run against Kuo.
The Miners scored single runs in the first, fourth and sixth and then exploded for four
runs in the bottom of the 8th , all with two outs, off Rob Chamra on a two run double by
Carlos Mendez, followed by a two run single by Ken Gregory, making it 7-0 Miners.
London only mustered three hits in the game, one each by Cardullo, Joash Brodin and
Cuevas.
These two teams meet up again tomorrow night, with Canadian, Jamie Richmond on
the mound for the Rippers. Gametime is 7:05pm.
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