With three sraters away and a fourth gettiing to the ballgame late due to practice for the Lezzer Lumber Football Classic on Friday night, Martin Oil manager Ed Davis knew all his club\u2019s games would be adventures this week. On Tuesday at Stadium Drive field in Bellwood, Dick\u2019s Pharmacy sc ored four times in the middle innings and Dick\u2019s pitcher Shane Gillmen limited Martin Oil to five hits in a 6-4 win.
\nAlready short on warm bodies, Martin Oil took another hit, literally when with one out and Gillmen on second base in the top of the first, Josh Ross drilled a line shot off Martin Oil starting pitcher Justin Manning\u2019s glove hand ending the night and most likely the season, quickly for Manning, who will have surgery on Thursday.
\nDick\u2019s scored two in the first, but Martin Oil came right back in the home half of the inning to tie the score.
\nMatt Beech, in Manning\u2019s spot in the lineup, opened the frame with a walk. Jake Manning lined a single up the middle. After a wild pitch moved both runners up a base, Trey Mock scored Beech with an RBI ground out, and Earnie Kelley tied the score by driving home Jake Manning with a single to right.
\nDick\u2019s Pharmacy moved ahead 4-2 in the third inning and added solo scores in both the fourth and fifth to build a four-run advantage 6-2.
\nMartin Oil cut the deficit to 6-4 in the bottom of the fifth. Jared Coho legged out an infield base hit to start the inning and Jake Manning drew a base on balls, with one down. Both runners scored when Mock drilled a double to deep center.
\nMartin Oil got two hits and two walks in the third inning, but in what proved to be a turning point, with a caught stealing and a base-running blunder, Gillmen and Dick\u2019s Pharmacy got out of the inning without giving up any runs.
\n\u201cFive hits doesn\u2019t do you much good in a game like this,\u201d explained Martin Oil manager Ed Davis. \u201cPitching held pretty decent tonight, we didn\u2019t give up all the walks we have been giving up and we had a decent defense. But other than Jake and Trey and Earnie, we just didn\u2019t hit the ball worth a hoot. We had to play a lot of young kids due to people being on vacation, but still we had better expectations than five hits for the lineup we played. We had our opportunities, two hits, two walks and you don\u2019t score in an inning-you can\u2019t have that stuff happen to you and expect to win.
\n\u201cWe just have to go back to the drawing board and try to do a better job tomorrow night.\u201d
\nTyler Sweeney had a perfect 4-for-4 night at the plate for Dick\u2019s with a double and two RBI and Kevin Henry had a pair of doubles. Gillmen struck out five and walked five in the complete-game win.
\nDick\u2019s Pharmacy 6 Martin Oil 4
\nDick\u2019s Pharmacy – Kutruff, rf, 3-1-0; Gillmen, p, 4-1-1; Ross, cf, 4-1-2; Walter, ss, 4-0-0; Sweeney, 3b, 4-2-4; McCaulley, c, 2-0-1; Quirin, cr, 0-0-0; Cruse, cr, 0-1-0; Johnston, cr, 0-0-0; Henry, lf, 4-0-2; Riggleman, 2b, 0-0-0; Snyder, 1b, 4-0-0. TOTALS 29-6-10.
\nMartin Oil – Ju. Manning, p, 0-0-0; Beech, 1b, 1-1-0; C. Coho, 2b-p, 2-0-0; Ja. Manning, c, 3-2-2; Mock, ss-p, 3-0-1; Kelley, cf, 2-0-1; Irvin, 3b, 3-0-0; Watters, lf, 3-0-0; Kovac, 1b-2b, 2-0-0; Stephens, rf, 3-0-0; J. Coho, 2b-ss, 3-1-1. TOTALS 25-4-5.
\nDick\u2019s Pharmacy 202 110 0 6-10-0.
\nMartin Oil 200 020 0 4- 5-1.
\n2B: Henry 2, Gillmen, Sweeney, Mock.
\nRBI: Sweeney 2, Ross, Henry, Riggleman, Mock 3, Kelley.
\nSO: Gillmen 5, Mock 4, C. Coho 3.
\nBB: Gillman 5, Mock 3, C. Coho 2.
\nWP: Gillmen LP: Mock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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