Announcement
Nats Down Kenosha Merchants
The Nationals faced the Kenosha Merchants, a Land O Lakes squad from the Eastern Division, in a non-league game on Saturday afternoon at Harden Field.
Despite getting off to a rough start, the squad battled back and pulled away for a 9-4 victory. The Nats received strong individual performances from Austin James, who had 3 hits, including a double, and 3 RBI's, Matt Soderlund, who also had three RBI's, and James Herkowski, Brandon Hall, and Mike Wajerski - each of whom contributed 2 hits to the cause.
Nationals pitchers allowed no earned runs in the contest. CJ Herrforth pitched the first three, including a long first in which the Merchants scored all 4 of their runs with the help of 2 Nationals errors. Adam Karas, seeing his first mound work of the year, through 4 scoreless innings in middle relief to earn the win. Karas allowed just one hit, walking 2 and striking out 2. Danny Putnam closed the game with 2 more scoreless innings.
Next up are the Langsdorf League's Kenosha Kings. The teams square off at 7:30pm on Tuesday night at Nash Field in Kenosha in a game with significant playoff implications.
Name | AB | R | H | 1B | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | TB | Average | OB % | SL% | OBS | RP | RP/PA | K/AB | RE | BB | K | SB |
Steve Elliott | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1 | 0.200 | 0.000 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Erik Martwick | 32 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 0.406 | 0.441 | 0.594 | 1.035 | 11 | 0.324 | 0.156 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
Tom Donovan | 15 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.400 | 0.438 | 0.533 | 0.971 | 4 | 0.250 | 0.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Jared Stengal | 57 | 17 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 36 | 0.386 | 0.478 | 0.632 | 1.109 | 27 | 0.403 | 0.228 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 4 |
Matt Soderlund | 45 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 20 | 0.333 | 0.423 | 0.444 | 0.868 | 19 | 0.365 | 0.200 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 |
Danny Putnam | 55 | 10 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 19 | 0.327 | 0.431 | 0.345 | 0.776 | 17 | 0.262 | 0.091 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 8 |
Brandon Hall | 32 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 0.313 | 0.421 | 0.375 | 0.796 | 10 | 0.263 | 0.094 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
Austin James | 61 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 20 | 0.295 | 0.338 | 0.328 | 0.666 | 19 | 0.292 | 0.197 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 0 |
James Herkowski | 53 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 0.283 | 0.387 | 0.358 | 0.746 | 15 | 0.242 | 0.226 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 0 |
Jim Jungbauer | 47 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 0.277 | 0.320 | 0.340 | 0.660 | 11 | 0.220 | 0.149 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
Curt Pryal | 60 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 22 | 0.267 | 0.313 | 0.367 | 0.679 | 19 | 0.297 | 0.100 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
Sam Kenseth | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.250 | 0.500 | 0.375 | 0.875 | 5 | 0.417 | 0.500 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Mike Kenseth | 24 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 0.250 | 0.400 | 0.500 | 0.900 | 8 | 6.333 | 0.083 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Mike Wajerski | 34 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0.206 | 0.270 | 0.206 | 0.476 | 8 | 0.216 | 0.147 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Kyle Kalkopf | 45 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0.156 | 0.377 | 0.178 | 0.555 | 15 | 0.246 | 0.244 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 2 |
Adam Karas | 18 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.111 | 0.273 | 0.111 | 0.384 | 3 | 0.136 | 0.278 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
CJ Herrforth | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Joe Hallett | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.400 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
593 | 107 | 171 | 129 | 35 | 3 | 4 | 89 | 216 | 0.288 | 0.363 | 0.361 | 0.724 | 192 | 19 | 69 | 102 | 24 |
Name | W | L | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | ERA | Saves |
Sam Kenseth | 2 | 3 | 34 | 41 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 25 | 5.56 | |
Curt Pryal | 3 | 2 | 34 | 39 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 26 | 5.82 | 2 |
Jim Jungbauer | 3 | 1 | 28 | 32 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 30 | 3.54 | |
CJ Herrforth | 1 | 2 | 24.6 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 15 | 28 | 2.93 | 1 |
Danny Putnam | 1 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0.53 | 2 |
Adam Karas | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.00 | |
George James | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0.00 | |
11 | 8 | 143.6 | 140 | 78 | 63 | 75 | 119 | 3.95 |