Team Black was outhit 7-5 but the hits couldn't have come at a better time. The Gold team held a brief 1-0 lead after JJ Rizzo scored on a groundout by Ben Giddens. But Team Black took the lead for good in the top of 5th when Matt Anderson led off the inning with his second hit of the day. Anthony Palladino followed with a grounder to 3rd, which 1st baseman Casey Kuebler could not handle the throw. The error advanced the runners to 2nd and 3rd. With the infield drawn in, Andrew Lofholm laced a single to shallow right-center to plate the first run. A sac bunt by Mario Rivera moved Lofholm to second, then Brad Brickhouse put down a perfect safety squeeze to make the score 2-0.
Gold had their best to chance to tie the game in the bottom of 6th after three straight singles by Andrew LLano, Cliff Cross and Kuebler. But Giddens trying to bunt his way on, grounded right back to the pitcher who started the back breaking 1-2-3 double play. Black would add on two more runs in the top of the seventh to bring the final score to 4-1.
Matt Anderson was named the TORO Player of the Game going 2-3 with a run scored.
Game 2 is Friday at 5pm.
Petrel Fodder:
- Hermance Stadium broke an attendance record for an intrasquad game with 17.
- Home plate umpire Dan Giordano worked his first and last game of his career.
- Senior Nick Greenfield in his mangerial debut won his his first game as the skipper for the Black.
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In a reversal of roles, I heard Paul Nauert was very critical of Giordano's strike zone.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/umpires/bio.jsp?id=3053
A little background on Paul Nauert. He works the Umpire Clinic that is held at OU every year. This year the camp is Oct. 12-14th. I personally had an encounter with Paul during a game I pitched back around 2000. He was on strike from MLB and decided to do some local games. Well for some reason he didn't like the way I asked the catcher were I was missing. He also threw out Danny Hall of Georgia Tech a week later...
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