FL Washington Wild Things

Wild Things Beat Sliders

Published on August 18, 2008 under Frontier League (FL)
Washington Wild Things News Release


The Washington Wild Things, presented by Washington Federal Savings Bank, secured a series victory and helped their playoff cause by defeating the Midwest Sliders, 11-3, in front of a sell-out crowd at Consol Energy Park Sunday night.

The offensive explosion started early with Midwest's Anthony Albano smacking his 6th home run of the season off of Washington starter, J.J. Hollenbeck.

The Wild Things' offense however answered back with a vengeance in the bottom of the first. Shortstop Brett Grandstrand started things off with a single and scored on Jacob Dempsey's RBI double. Chris Raber would then drive in Dempsey with a single. Following back-to-back walks to Chris Carrara and Brad Arnett, catcher Josh Eachues stepped to the plate and stroked a bases-clearing double to the left-center gap. He would later score on an RBI single by second baseman Phil Butch to round out the inning. The damage was done however, as the Wild Things would put up a total of six runs on five hits and chased Midwest starter Shawn Ravenscraft, who suffered the loss and fell to 0-4 on the season.

Dempsey, one of the Frontier Leagues RBI leaders, wasn't done yet. In the second inning he stepped to the plate and drove a fastball from Midwest reliever James Albury deep over the right field fence for his 14th home run of the season. In the 6th, his sacrifice fly scored Chris Sidick, who had just singled and went to third on a Grandstrand double.

Brad Arnett got in on the action as well, smashing a two-run home run (4) in the bottom of the 7th inning extending the Wild Things lead to 11-2.

Hollenbeck went 6 innings giving up 2 runs, both earned, on 5 hits, with 2 strikeouts and 1 walk, to improve his record to 5-4 on the season.

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