The Rangers have to stop playing the Beavercreek Sox at night (2-9 record vs.
Sox under the lights, 2-0 during the day) as the team lost 19-4 to the Sox on Tuesday
night. Without a starting pitcher at game time, Jared Bradley got the ball to
face a Sox team that has been averaging 14 runs a game on offense.
The Sox
jumped out early in the first scoring 6 runs on 3 misplayed fly balls and six
hits. Five more came across in the third on five hits and three walks. Rangers
pitcher Brad Clark arrived to the ballpark just in time to be inserted with the
bases juiced and two outs in the top of the third to record a strikeout and
slow down the Sox momentum. Clark’s bat put the Rangers in the scoring column
with a two-out RBI single to right, plating Shane Fallen for an 11-1 deficit.
Clint Wolf’s RBI triple to deep right plated Jonmarc Lippincott with the second
run of the game for the Rangers in the bottom of the fourth.
But the
Sox answered with a solo homerun off the bat of Sox newcomer Scott Szalejko,
his first ever longball. The Sox scored two unearned runs in the sixth after a
dropped third strike and a fielding miscue started a minor rally. Clint’s second
RBI triple of the night and a Joe Staten RBI single were the final runs the
Rangers could tally on the night.
Brad Clark worked 4-plus
innings allowing one earned run, striking out 6 before arm trouble sidelined
him in the seventh. Catcher Shane Fallen came in for some mop up duty, but five
free passes, two painfully, and a couple of hits produced five more runs in the
seventh.
Offensive highlights:
Clint Wolf 2-3, 2 triples, 2RBI; Brad Clark 2-2 RBI; James Robinson 2-3 double.
Historical note: Clint’s
multiple three-bagger night marked the fifth time in his career that he has had
more than one triple in a single game.