Announcement
Nationals Earn Split in Manitowoc
Posted by Steve Elliott on
May 20 2006
at
05:00PM PDT
in 2019 Season
After the previous night of only getting 1 ball out of the infield there was nowhere to go but up for the Nats. On saturday they earned a split in the home opener for the Manitowoc Bandits in Manitowoc. Game 1 put RHP Jim Jungbauer on the hill, the same one where he dominated the Appleton Legends only a season ago to close out his season. Saturday Jungbauer didn't fare as well. Pitching to a pretty small strikezone didn't help his confidence any after not taking the hill since his performance last season, he was a little wild and left after only 3+ innings and left with a 3-1 defecit. That gave way to Curt Pryal in relief and he went on to hold the Bandits at bay for the remainder of the game, allowing just 1 run over that span.
As they couldn't do on the previous day the Nats actually mounted a counter attack, going to work on their defecit. The 1st big blow of the season came off the bat of newly aquired 2bman Andy Gerharz, who stroked a 2-run double and later came around to score. Gerharz had 2 doubles for the game and the Nats had a 5-4 lead after 5 innings. The icing on the cake came in the form of a 2-run bomb over the scoreboard at Memorial Stadium by veteran James Herkowski, his 1st of the year. They then went on to cruise to the victory behind the relief efforts of Pryal, who got his 1st victory of the season.
Multiple hits: Gerharz 2, Herkowski 2, Riebe 2
Multiple RBI: Gerharz 3, Herkowski 3
Game 2 was a different story, the Nationals could only muster 3 hits and 3 runs off of Bandits RHP Adam Kilp. The Nats got an early 2-1 lead after 2 innings but a 3-run 3rd inning put the Bandits on top for good this game. The Nats fought back to make it a 4-3 game until the 5th when they added an insurance run to make it 5-3. Starting pitcher Corey Berndsen (Cardinal Stritch) still on the mound in the 6th surrendured a 2-run homer to Kyle Schroeder, which hit off the top of the wall and went out. That made it 7-3, which turned out to be the final score.
Multiple Hits:
Multiple RBI:
Record 1-2
Next up for the Nationals is the rubber match vs. Manitowoc on Sunday
Probable starter: Johnny Wholestaff
As they couldn't do on the previous day the Nats actually mounted a counter attack, going to work on their defecit. The 1st big blow of the season came off the bat of newly aquired 2bman Andy Gerharz, who stroked a 2-run double and later came around to score. Gerharz had 2 doubles for the game and the Nats had a 5-4 lead after 5 innings. The icing on the cake came in the form of a 2-run bomb over the scoreboard at Memorial Stadium by veteran James Herkowski, his 1st of the year. They then went on to cruise to the victory behind the relief efforts of Pryal, who got his 1st victory of the season.
Multiple hits: Gerharz 2, Herkowski 2, Riebe 2
Multiple RBI: Gerharz 3, Herkowski 3
Game 2 was a different story, the Nationals could only muster 3 hits and 3 runs off of Bandits RHP Adam Kilp. The Nats got an early 2-1 lead after 2 innings but a 3-run 3rd inning put the Bandits on top for good this game. The Nats fought back to make it a 4-3 game until the 5th when they added an insurance run to make it 5-3. Starting pitcher Corey Berndsen (Cardinal Stritch) still on the mound in the 6th surrendured a 2-run homer to Kyle Schroeder, which hit off the top of the wall and went out. That made it 7-3, which turned out to be the final score.
Multiple Hits:
Multiple RBI:
Record 1-2
Next up for the Nationals is the rubber match vs. Manitowoc on Sunday
Probable starter: Johnny Wholestaff
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