NLA Game 5, May 06, 06
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11| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagles | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 3 |
| Challengers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| W: Müller L: Bregy, H. | ||||||||||
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7Eagles outhit Challengers, win 11-7
Tim Koblenz and the Reussbuhl Eagles score 11 runs in the middle innings of Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader to win 11-7.
Benitez was the only Challenger with more than one hit.
The Eagles outhit the Challengers 12-7 and relied on knuckleballer Jerome Müller’s stuff.
It worked for the Eagles, as Müller retired 11 batters in a row from the end of the first inning through the beginning of the fifth. He struck out one batter and walked just two in six innings of work.
The two teams went scoreless through the first two innings before the Eagles struck first in the third inning.
Starter Harry Bregy then lost it in the third frame as the first five batters reached safely on two doubles, a single and two walks.
Two ground outs later, the Eagles had taken a surprising 5-0 lead.
Another run crossed the plate in the next inning on Dario D’Angelo’s RBI-single, and the Eagles offensive attack continued in the fifth inning.
After the first four batters of the inning got on base with an error, a single, a base-on-balls and a hit-by-pitch, coach Anthony Bennett sent Bregy to the showers and Geovanni Ureña took over.
All three runners he inherited scored on Koblenz’s two-run single and a fielding error by shortstop Saentis Zeller.
It took the Challengers five innings to respond. They scored their first run of the game thanks to a fielding error by first baseman Tom Huston.
They came back big in the sixth inning as they sent 10 batters to the plate, scoring six times to cut the Eagles’ lead to 11-7.
None of those runs were earned as second baseman Mark Fehlmann booted two ground balls before Tobias Siegrist’s sac fly to center field scored the first run of the inning for the Challengers.
Anubis Benitez, Thomas Blank and Bryan Shemley followed with three consecutive singles.
But bad baserunning killed the Challengers’ rally as Blank was thrown out trying to advance to third on a passed ball.
A scoreless seventh inning by closer Koblenz gave the Eagles the first victory against the Challengers since August 22, 2004, extending the Challengers’ losing streak to three.
Game notes
Benitez was the only Challenger with more than one hit, going 2-for-3 including a double in the fifth inning. … In his 150th at bat in the NLA, Blank grounded out in the second inning.