The Warriors' bats took a week off as the team compiled just 33 hits in two games. With a strong wind blowing in the offense could never get a good groove going, having three scoreless innings and four more with just one run.
Against Pax, the Warriors pushed one run across in the top of the first inning. Austin Colby doubled and came home on Eric Johnson's triple. Pax went down quickly in the bottom half without scoring.
Rez Life added one more in the second inning after Logan Brincefield reached on an error to start things. Aaron Beintema singled to score Logan from second. Pax again went down without scoring to make it 2-0 after two innings.
Rez had a bigger inning in the third, plating three runs on three hits and two walks. Tim Jandro walked to start the frame and went to third on Adam Hey's single.
Yes, that Adam Hey. Austin drew a walk to load the bases for hot-man Eric and Eric delivered a sacrifice fly to score Tim and make it 3-0. Adam advanced to third on the play and then scored as Jeff Tenney lifted a sac fly, but what would have been a no-doubt homerun if the wind wasn't howling. With two outs, Logan singled to plate Austin for the inning's third run. Aaron singled for the second time in the game, but was caught on the bases for the third out.
Pax didn't rollover though, scoring three runs to make it 5-3 after three innings. Pax used three hits, a walk and an error to score the runs.
Leading 5-3, Rez pushed two more across in the fourth to go up 7-3. Lee Valle singled with one out and went to second base on a groundout. Tim singled to score Lee and back-to-back singles from Adam and Austin scored Tim.
Pax kept it a game with three more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and Rez started to feel the pressure leading just 7-6 going into the fifth inning. In the fifth, Rez had its best inning of the night. Tenney, Logan and Aaron all singled to start the inning. Jeff Johnson hit an infield fly which was dropped and allowed one run to score. Lee came through with the big hit to plate two more runs. With one on, Bryan Christensen forced out Lee and went to second on Tim's walk. Adam roped a double deep into the gap to score Bryan and Tim and give Rez a more comfortable 12-6 lead.
Pax's offense went to sleep for the balance of the game going down scoreless in both the fifth and sixth frames. Rez added a fun run in the sixth using four singles and leaving the bases loaded.
Eric Johnson earns Player of the Game for the first time in 2010 with two hits, one run, two rbi and a triple. He also played a solid two-bagger with two assists and four putouts.
Game two was a continuation of the slow bats for Rez Life as the team managed just 14 hits total against Redeemer. Rez went down one, two, three in the first inning for the first time in 2010. Redeemer took advantage of that with three runs in the bottom half to stake itself to an early lead. Brent reached base on an error and went to second on Jason Merritt's walk. After consecutive flyouts, Chris Burr and Bob Hutchinson singled to plate two runs. Back-to-back walks from Kevin Campbell and Dan Powers scored the third run. A forceout from Dan B. ended the inning.
Trailing 3-0, Rez got on the board with two runs in the top of the second on Tenney's first of two homeruns. Eric singled to start the inning and then Tenney mashed a homerun to dead center, cutting through the wind.
A double from Logan and an infield single from Aaron put runners on first and second with no outs. Jeff lined out to left-center for the first out and consecutive grounders ended the inning with no more runs for the Warriors.
Redeemer won the inning again with three more runs in the bottom half. Brent walked to open the frame and after an out, Andy Briggs reached on an error to put runners on the corners for Jamy. Jamy delivered a two-run double to right-center. Chris hit a flyout and Bob came through again with two outs with an rbi-single.
Down 6-2, Rez tied it up with four runs in the top of the third inning. Tim singled and after an out, Austin singled to right. Eric singled to load the bases for Tenney who ripped a two-rbi single to make it 6-2. After the second out, Aaron walked to load the bases and Jeff walked to plate Eric. Lee singled to score one more but a strikeout ended the inning and left the bases loaded.
Redeemer quickly reclaimed the lead with one more run in its half taking advantage of a leadoff error and then popping out two hits. Down 7-6, Rez took the lead for the first time with three runs in the fourth. With two outs and no one on, Austin and Eric hit back-to-back singles and Tenney again erupted with a bomb, this one of the three-run variety. Tenney's homer gave Rez a 9-7 edge.
Redeemer went down without scoring in the bottom half and Rez had a chance to expand its lead in the fifth. Rez also went down in order, hitting three harmless flyouts. However, the Rez defense held court and kept Redeemer off the board again, leaving two singles on base.
Leading 9-7 heading into the sixth, Rez again went down in order. The Warriors got out in seven straight plate appearances which ties a team record. Redeemer took advantage this time, scoring two runs to tie the game going into the seventh and final inning. Jamy singled to start things and an error put two on with no outs. A single from Bob scored Jamy and another error loaded the bases, still with no outs. A groundout to Lee at third scored another run but cut down a lead runner. A grounder right back to Austin at the mound was nearly a doubleplay but the runner beat the throw at first. With two on, a lineout to Jeff at first ended the threat.
The umpire informed both teams that the seventh inning would be the last inning due to time limit regardless if the game ended in a tie or not. Things started well for the Warriors as Austin tasered one in the gap for a casual double and pinch-runner Adam advanced to third on Eric's fourth single. Tenney just missed his third homerun of the game, hitting a deep flyout to score Adam and give Rez the lead. However, back-to-back outs ended the inning and scoring chances for Rez.
Redeemer came to the plate needing one run to tie and two to win. Jason struck out to start the inning and after an Andy groundout to Lee, things looked good for Rez. With two outs and none on, Jamy roped a double and came home on Chris' single. However, Chris advanced to second on an errant throw putting the winning run in scoring position. Bob ripped out a no-doubt single to left-center which allowed the winning run to score from second. Game over.
The three, four, five hitters provided virtually all of the offense as Austin and Eric set the table and Tenney cleared it. Tenney captures Player of the Game for the second time with three hits, two homeruns and a season-high eight rbi.
Rez drops to 8-4 on the season which makes a league title very difficult. Rez needs to win next week versus first-place Wooddale Classic or any dreams of back-to-back titles will be gone. Rez has another doubleheader, with games starting at 6:50 on field #5. After the Warriors take on 10-2 Classic, they face St. Andrew Red at 7:50.
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