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Walla Walla drops 5th straight, 5-2

June 25, 2011 - West Coast League (WCL)
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Corvallis-- The Corvallis Knights got all the offense they needed in the first inning on back-to-back extra-base hits from Sean Myrom and David Armendariz and the pitchers did the rest as the Knights took game two from the Walla Walla Sweets, 5-2, Friday night at Goss Stadium.

Myrom connected on the first pitch he saw in the first inning and drilled it to the wall in center, scoring Trent Oleszczuk and Jimmy Allen. Batting next, Armendariz took ball one before ripping one to nearly the exact same spot in center for an RBI triple. Scott Gottschling nearly made a spectacular catch but could not catch up to the long fly ball.

After that, the Sweets (5-9) were forced to play catch-up the rest of the night and never did recover. They rallied in their next at-bats, starting the inning with three straight singles. Austin Heaps singled up the middle, Zach Wentz singled to right and James Campbell's sac bunt attempt turned into a bunt single loading the bases with no outs. Gottschling's ground ball to short scored a run and Kevin Williams walked to reload the bases but the Sweets could not score another run. Back-to-back flyouts ended the inning and left the Sweets wanting more.

Walla Walla continued to chip away in the third but never broke through. Elliot Stewart drew a one-out walk and moved to third on a Heaps double down the left field line. Wentz followed with a ground ball to short that scored Stewart and resulted in runners on first and third as the shortstop, Alex Foulon, attempt at getting Heaps at third was a tad late. Reliever Kyle Hart settled and ended the threat with back-to-back pop outs. The Sweets never got any closer.

Over the next three innings, three seperate Corvallis (9-7) pitchers combined to allow one baserunner (walk) and to retire 11 straight batters at one point. Hart pitched a 1-2-3 fifth, Ben Wetzler retired all six batters he faced in a two-inning span and Scott Schultz retired the first batter in the eighth before Wentz singled to left-center.

Meanwhile, the Knights scratched across an insurance run in the seventh on a wild pitch and tacked on a fifth run in the eighth on an RBI single from Myrom. The lead was enough even with Schultz allowing two singles in the ninth. The right-hander left two more runners on with a ground out to short.

If not for the first inning, Sweets starter Kyle Anderson would have considered it a very good outing. The lefty from Cal Poly was making his first start of the summer and made only two bad pitches all night. He stranded two in the second, worked around a leadoff double in the third, struck out the final two batters of the fourth and closed his outing with a 1-2-3 fifth. He allowed three runs on eight hits and struck out four, throwing 53 of his 75 pitches for strikes.

Adam Duke was the Corvallis starter and lasted only two innings, allowing a run on five hits. Hart, the winning pitcher, allowed a run on one hit over three innings of relief and Wetzler and Schultz combined to give up just three hits over the final four innings. Oleszczuk had three hits for Corvallis, Andriese two and Myrom two hits and three RBI.

Alex Stanford, hitless in his previous four at-bats, extended his hitting streak to six games with a single in the ninth inning. Heaps had his first two-hit game of the summer and Wentz equaled him with two, the third time this summer for him. Derek Peterson relieved Anderson in the sixth and needed just six pitches to retire the side in order. He walked the leadoff batter in the seventh and that runner eventually scored on a wild pitch. He did not allow a hit in two innings. Trent Allianic was the final pitcher for the Sweets and allowed a run on two hits in the eighth.

Walla Walla will look to end their five-game skid on Saturday night at Goss Stadium against Corvallis. Game time is scheduled for 6:40 p.m. and Tyler Billen will start for the Sweets against Jace Fry for Corvallis.



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