Martin Oil and Corporal Miller were engaged in a pitchers\u2019 duel at Mansion Park on Tuesday evening. Both teams were held to just three hits, but Corporal Miller took advantage of a passed ball to put one runner in scoring position and two walks and a Martin Oil error to score the second in a 2-0 win that evened both teams season record at 1-1.
\nWith Martin Oil starter Earnie Kelley on the mound in the bottom of the first, Vogel singled, advanced to second on a passed ball and scored on a single by Nate George to give the home team an early 1-0 lead.
\nThen against Brian Hostler in the fourth, Riley and Gehl reached base on walks, sandwiched around a pair of outs and Riley scored on an error.
\nThe tempo was set for Martin Oil early when Brandon Beech reached base on an error to begin the ballgame, but was picked off first base by winning pitcher Andy Criste. Dustin Harris walked, but Criste picked him off base also. Kelley also drew a walk, but instead of loading the bases, there were then two outs and only a runner on first-end of rally, when Criste struck out the next batter.
\nCriste scattered three base hits, striking out 10 while walking just two Martin Oil hitters to go the distance for the win.
\n\u201cThe pitching we got from Earnie, Brian and Brandon was terrific,\u201d explained Martin Oil manager Ed Davis. \u201cWe walked a few more than I would like, but our pitchers pitched more than well enough to win this ballgame. We just couldn\u2019t get the hits we needed.\u201d
\nMartin Oil had at least one runner on base in five of the seven innings, including first and second with two outs in the top of the seventh, but Criste was able to stop the Bellwood-based club from putting anything on the scoreboard.
\nKelley tossed two innings for Martin Oil yielding one run on three hits, with two strikeouts and no walks. Brian Hostler pitched the middle three innings, giving up one unearned score on no hits, four walks and one strikeout. Brandon Beech finished the game for Martin Oil pitching a one-two-three sixth inning, on two infield pops and a comebacker to the mound.
\nKelley saved Martin Oil from further damage when Corporal Miller loaded the bases with one out in the second inning, on his own error, a hit batsman and a hard single. Kelley induced a pop up and groundout to get out of the inning without any runs being scored.
\nMartin Oil\u2019s only hits were a third inning single by Beech with two outs, a one-out single by Blaze Winterstein in the fifth and a seventh-inning single by Troy Brunner.
\nMartin Oil returns to action at Bellwood\u2019s Stadium Drive diamond on Thursday against McMullen Furniture with the first pitch set for 6 p.m.
\nCorporal Miller 2 Martin Oil 0
\nMartin Oil – Beech, 2b-p, 3-0-1; Harris, cf-lf, 1-0-0; Davilla, lf, 1-0-0; Kelley, p-cf, 1-0-0; Alley, ss, 3-0-0; Coho, 3b, 3-0-0; Brunner, 1b, 3-0-1; Tomchick, rf, 2-0-0; Geis, cr-rf, 1-0-0; Winterstein, c, 2-0-1; McDaniel, lf, Hostler, p, 2-0-0. TOTALS 23-0-3.
\nCorporal Miller – Vogel, cf, 4-1-1; Henderson, ss, 4-0-0; George, rf, 3-0-1; Sisto, 2b, 2-0-0; Frederick, pr, 0-0-0; Criste, p, 3-0-0; Burns, lf, 0-0-0; Riley, dh, 1-1-0; Wombacher, c, 2-0-0; Gaeto, 3b, 2-0-0; Gehl, 2b, 2-0-1; Casserly, TOTALS 23-2-3.
\nMartin OIL 000 000 0 0-3-3.
\nCorporal Miller 100 100 X 2-3-1.
\nRBI: George.
\nSO: Kelley 2, Hostler 1, Criste 10.
\nBB: Hostler 4, Criste 3.
\nWP: Criste LP: Kelley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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