Game Report: K-Town @ Heidelberg
The 2nd place K-Town Bears came to town on Sunday showing why they were leading the league in hitting. They crushed a flat Hedgehog team 12-5 knocking out 14 hits in the 1st game. Having not pitched since 16 May, Dave Cox was very rusty giving up 11 runs on 11 hits while pitching just 5 innings. Luis Gonzalez mopped up allowing 1 on 3 hits. Having not played a game since 5 June the Hedgehogs defense was very shaky, making 5 errors. The Hedgehogs did manage 12 hits of their own, but were not able to string them together. Luis “L’gone” Gonzalez hit his league leading 4th home run of the year in the bottom of the 7th, but it was too little too late.
The 2nd game started out just like the 1st one. The Hedgehogs were down 6-3 in the bottom of the 4th. But in the bottom of the 4th the Hedgehogs took over, scoring 6 runs on 6 hits with one K-Town error. Coming back in the bottom of the 5th with 8 more runs on 6 hits and another K-Town error. That ended the ballgame 17-7, 10 run mercy rule. Simon Von Schwedler picked up his league leading 5th win and 5th complete game. Despite giving up 2 homeruns, one of which was monster shot, Simon kept his cool while giving up 9 hits to a very good hitting team. Once again the Hedgehogs defense was shaky making 3 errors.
There were several hitting stars on the day;
P. Schoppa 4-8, 4 RBIs, 4 Runs
E. Braun 3-7, 1 RBI, 2 Runs
L. Gonzalez 4-7, 1 HR, 1 Double, 5 RBIs, 4 Runs
R. Wright 2-4, 1 Triple, 1 RBI, 2 Runs
R. Kane 4-7, 1 Double, 3 RBIs, 2 Runs
A. Krull 4-7, 2 RBIs, 1 Run
D. Cox 1-6, 1 Double, 1 RBI, 1 Run
B. Von Nettlebladt 2-4 1 Double, 2 Runs
S. Von Schwedler 2-6
Despite suffering the 2nd loss of the season, the Hedgehogs remain in 1st place in the Regionalliga Southwest with a 2 game lead over the K-Town Bears.