West Michigan WhiteCaps at South Bend SilverHawks
April 18th, 2002
| West Michigan |
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2 |
0 |
0 |
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4 |
0 |
0 |
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2 |
0 |
0 |
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8 |
13 |
2 |
| South Bend |
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0 |
1 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
2 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
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3 |
8 |
2 |
E-Gonzalez, Knoedler, Hairston, Montilla, LOB WM-8, SB-8, 2B-Kolodzey, DiRosa, 3B-Mattle, Knoedler, HR-Tejeda (Wechsler), SB-Gonzalez 2, SACF-Tejeda, SACB-Rabelo
PB-Montilla, SO-Gonzalez, Kelly, Mattle, Knoedler, Peguero, Lugo, Garcia 3, Lopez 2, Haydel, BB-Kelly, DiRosa 2, Barrett, Haydel
T-2:33, A-884
South Bend Tribune
by Forrest Miller
One horrible defensive inning followed by a horrible offensive inning added up to an 8-3 loss by the South Bend SilverHawks Thursday night.
Trailing 2-1 after three innings of a Midwest League baseball battle at Coveleski Stadium. South Bend's defense failed in the fourth as visiting West Michigan scored four runs, three of them unearned.
Juan Tejeda, who greeted South Bend starter Justin Wechsler with a two run homer in the first, opened the third with a single. Jason Knoedler followed with another hit, but disaster struck when South Bend catcher Sam Montilla fielded Mike Rabelo's bunt and threw high into the right field bullpen.
Two runners scord and Rabelo arrived at third, from where he scored on Chris Kolodzey's double. Juan Gonzalez singled in Kolodzey.
"We gave them those runs," said South Bend manager Dick Schofield, "It makes it tough when you give runs away, when you make them earn the runs, that's different. In the next inning we had a chance to get back in it, but get them off the hook."
In the fifth, the Silver Hawks loaded the bases with their 7-8-9 batters, and had nobody out with the top of the order coming up.
But an inning that began with a lot of promise quickly fizzled.
Montilla had reached on an error, and Rich Barrett and Rick haydel each walked to load the bases.
WhiteCaps starter Jeremy Lewis stuck out leadoff hitter Lino Garcia for the third time. He also fanned Mike Lopez before Scott Hairston flied deep to right to end the inning.
The Hawks had another chance in the sixth, scoring twice on hits by Kyle Nichols, Mike DiRosa and Montilla. But WhiteCaps reliever Dan Smith needed only one pitch to retire the side, a double play ball to Barrett.
Smith went on to blank the SilverHawks on three hits the rest of the way.
DiRosa doubled in the second inning, advancing on Dustin Vugteveen's fly ball and scored on Montilla's groundout.
The WhiteCaps scored two more in the seventh. David Mattle tripled on Jon Castellanos' first pitch in relief, scoring on Tejeda's fly ball. Knoedler then tripled and scored on Rabelo's ground ball.