Sissach Frogs – Therwil Flyers 0-5, 5-4
Recap by JB Tucker, Therwil Flyers
Game One
Game one in the Sunday doubleheader between the Therwil Flyers and the Sissach Frogs was a very close game all the way to the end. The starting pitching for both teams did a tremendous job of keeping the hitters off balance and inducing a lot of ground balls. Both the Frogs and the Flyers pitchers held the opposing offenses to zero runs through five innings, when finally, in the top of the sixth inning Flyers’ catcher JB Tucker broke up the scoreless game with a solo home run to left field. That is all the Flyers pitchers would need as starter Stefan Koller threw five scoreless, reliever Lukas Croton threw 3 scoreless, and Adrian Kaufmann finished the game with one scoreless inning. Although the Flyers pitching was dominating, the offense added a few runs of support in the ninth inning with three walks, three hits and a sacrifice fly to push across four more runs. Final score was 5-0 in favor of the Flyers.
Game Two
Game two on Sunday was a back and forth battle that ended up going into extra innings. The Flyers carried over their late surging offense from game one into the first inning of the second game by scoring two runs. Leadoff hitter, Reto Siegel led off with a sharp single up the middle, followed by another single by Hide Oshima. Both of the lead off runners came around to score by consecutive singles by Stefan Koller and Taka Oshima. After jumping out to an early lead, the Frogs starting pitcher, Gary Kahn, settled in and kept the Flyers offense in check for the next several innings. Trailing two to zero, Frogs right fielder, Thomas Fink, came up with two outs and two runners on in the second inning and drove the ball out of the park to put the Frogs up, 3-2. The Frogs added to their lead in the fourth inning when Grimildo Cuevas led off with a double and scored on a single by Gary Kahn. Trailing by two runs, the Flyers battled back by loading the bases with one out, but unfortunately were only able to score one run on a RBI groundout by leadoff hitter, Reto Siegel. Going into the final inning, trailing by one, Flyer’s catcher JB Tucker was able to connect with a 2-2 fastball, driving it over the left field fence, to tie the game at 4. After shutting down the Frogs in the 7th inning, the Flyers defense struggled in the 8th. After a controversial call that led to an extended at bat Thomas Fink was able to beat out a ground ball that the Flyers short stop, David Castillo, mishandled. With the game tied and a runner on first, the Frogs elected to sacrifice bunt, unfortunately Flyers pitcher, JB Tucker, made an errant throw to second and was unable to record an out. With nobody out and runners on first and second, the Frogs again sacrificed, putting the winning run on third base with one out. After a Frogs strike out, for the second out, Grimildo Cuevas lined the first pitch he saw to the right center field gap to give the Frogs a dramatic walk off victory. Final score was 5-4 in favor of the Frogs.
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