KC Dodgers

Kyle Chapman Houston finally beat its case of jet lag, then used their bats to beat the Chambersburg Suburban Americans into submission by a score of 10-4 at Lew Hays Field in Washington, Pennsylvania on Tuesday night. Jamie Reingold took the ball for K.C. and held Chambersburg scoreless in the first, stranding three runners with one out on a force at home from Jamie to Joe, and an unassisted ground ball to Beau Faulk at first base. K.C. opened the scoring in the top of the second inning on a Matt West single and a Daniel Rothenberg RBI single to right-centerfield to make the score 1-0. Shades of the other night, Chambersburg scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning to take a (short lived) 2-1 lead after 2 innings of play. K.C. blew the game open in the top of the third inning. Mark Robichau singled, Karl Pringle walked, and Jamie Reingold drove in Mark with a single. Matt West drove in Karl Pringle with a single to make the score 3-2 in favor of K.C. Joe Silver followed, and with two strikes on him, got around on an inside pitch and powered it over the left field fence for a three run homer, driving in himself, Matt and Jamie. Chambersburg could not score in the bottom of the 3rd, and after 3 it was 6-2 in favor of K.C. K.C. added to its lead in the top of the 4th when Beau Faulk reached first on an error by the first baseman, then advanced to second on a passed ball. Mark Robichau drove Beau in with an RBI double, then went to third on a stolen base. Karl Pringle walked, and Jamie drove in Mark with a single. Matt West followed with a double, scoring both Karl and Jamie to run the score to 10-2 in favor of K.C. Andrew Espinosa and Alex Cernoch came in to pitch the 4th inning, allowing 2 runs to make the score 10-4 in favor of K.C. Alex Cernoch and Patrick Morris held Chambersburg scoreless in the 5th, 6th and 7th innings to lock in the Kyle Chapman victory by a score of 10-4. As a result of tonight's victory, K.C. is 1/4 of the way toward earning a berth in the World Series championship game. K.C. likely plays Washington, Pa., tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 8pm. Washington, Pa., is in the process of being drubbed by California-Lakewood 7-0 in the 5th inning as this article is being written. This is Scott Rothenberg signing off from Washington, Pennsylvania, saying, "It's true that sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug, but believe me, from the looks on the guys' faces after tonight's game, it's a lot more fun to be the windshield."