Indians leave Challengers helpless, win 11-4

The Lausanne Indians quietly sneaked past the Zurich Challengers with an 11-4 win in just 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Before the Challengers knew what happened, it was all over again.

Lefty Nicolas Jaquement of the Indians pitched a complete-game, allowing four unearned runs on seven hits and two walks, while also striking out two.

While the Indians kept pounding out big hits, the Challengers lined one shot after the other right at defensive guys.

Starter Thomas Landis surrendered eight runs - three of them unearned - on eight hits and one walk over five innings, and was lifted for reliever Harry Bregy in the sixth.

The Challengers were limited to just two scoring innings, as they collected two runs each in the second and fourth innings. Bryan Shemley had an RBI-single in the second inning, followed by Geovanni Ureña's ground-rule RBI-double.

Thomas Blank's sacrifice fly and an error by first baseman Eddy Marte pushed two more runs across the plate in the fourth inning.

But by then, the Indians had already scored five times, two of those runs coming off Jose Colon's two-run blast in the first inning.

The Indians pulled away 8-4 in the fifth inning on Jay Casimiro’s solo shot to lead off the inning and an error by first baseman Shemley with two outs, one of six errors in the game by the Challengers.

The Challengers then missed a big scoring opportunity in the eighth inning as they loaded the bases with one out.

Tobias Siegrist reached on an infield error, Chris Palatinus followed with a single and saentis Zeller filled 'em up with a base-on-balls.

But Blank flied out to center, and pinch-hitter Thomas Burger lined a shot to opposite field that landed straight in the glove of first baseman Marte, ending the inning with no runs.

Game notes
It was the first time since October 17, 2004 that Landis has allowed two homers in a game. ...Zeller scored his 250th run in the NLA as he scored on Blank's sac fly in the fourth inning.