St. Cloud Downs Tigers
Tigers Move into Loser Bracket (by Brett Kruschke)
| 6/17/05 | 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
R |
H |
E |
| St. Cloud Ortho | 1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
10 |
7 |
1 |
| Belle Plaine | 0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
5 |
BP 1 vs. St. Cloud Orthopedic 10 (Friday, June 17, at Arlington)
After the bitter taste of defeat in last week’s consolation championship of the Tigertown Classic, this time the Tigers knew what they wanted and had their eyes on the prize from the very beginning: the only way to go back and win a consolation championship was to lose one of their first two games in this tournament.
It was an emotional homecoming of sorts for the goateed wonder, Dave Kreft, who previously played with Arlington for oh, who-knows-how-long. With his buddies flipping cheeseburgers in the neatly designed bowling shirts he patented, onward he trudged. Off a raised mound and with a little extra giddy-up on his fastball, Kreft was looking to improve to 4-0 while hoping to reduce his already microscopic 0.79 ERA.
It wasn’t to be. The Tigers were still in the game, trailing 3-1 after six, but that’s when the Kreft-O-Matic 2000 hit the wall. An error, a pair of walks and a double chased the right-hander and turned things over to Dave Feldt, who was beaten like a rented mule. When the top of the seventh finally ended, a 10-1 blowout was on our hands (and some grease from honestly the best tasting fried onions-cheeseburger I ever had).
| Belle Plaine TIGERS (4-12, 2-4) | ||||||
AB |
R |
H |
RBI |
BB |
Avg. |
|
| Huber, 2b | 4 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
.259 |
| Dhaene, ss | 3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
.240 |
| P. Schultz, c | 3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
.314 |
| Weldon, cf | 3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
.333 |
| Kreft, p-3b | 3 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
.212 |
| Zellmann, 1b | 2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
.148 |
| Kruschke, pr | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| Witt, rf | 3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.132 |
| Schuster, lf | 3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
.200 |
| J. Schulz, 3b | 2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
.286 |
| Feldt, p | 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
| TOTALS | 27 |
1 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
.296 |
| 2B –P. Schultz, Kreft.. 3B – none. HR –none. | ||||||
| HBP – none. SB –none. | ||||||
| Pitcher | IP |
H |
R/ER |
BB/K |
NP |
ERA |
| Kreft (L, 3-1) | 6.1 |
5 |
3-Jul |
10-Apr |
112 |
1.34 |
| Feldt | 0.2 |
2 |
1-Mar |
Jan-00 |
22 |
10.03 |
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