Cincinnati Steam

Steam Take Two From All-Americans

Chillicothe, OH – The Cincinnati Steam continued to play balanced baseball by getting good pitching, good defense, timely hitting and capitalizing on their opponents mistakes to raise their league leading record to 15-4 on season and extending their current winning streak to six games.

The Steam defeated the All Americans 7-4 in game 1 by scoring six runs in the first two innings off of two Columbus errors. Joey O’Gara raised his record to 2-0 on the season and Adam Eaton picked up his first save of the season.

Cincinnati battled back from an early 1-0 deficit to defeat Columbus 2-1 in game 2. The Steam scored one in the 6^th and the game winner in the 7^th. Eric Braeckel (1-1) earned the victory in relief of starter of Joel Ernst who went five strong innings in his first start of the season.

Next up for the Steam is a trip to Delaware, Ohio Sunday afternoon , to face the Delaware Cows at Ohio Wesleyan University 1:00pm.

Steam capitalize on All American miscues to win Game 1

Cincinnati took an early 3-0 lead capitalizing on an error by the All Americans 2^nd baseman Tyler Rogers and a two out bases loaded double by Billy O’Conner. Cincinnati put another three spot on the board in the top of the 2^nd, once again capitalizing off an All American error. Jake Brown lead off the 2^nd with a walk. Jon Edgington reached on an error by left fielder Chris Roberts who misplayed the fly ball. With runners on 1^st and 2^nd, Nate Fields struck out and Brad Gschwind flied out to right to keep runners at bay until Zach Hurley reached on a base hit to load the bases for Tommy Nurre. Nurre drove in two runs with a base hit to left driving in Jake Brown and Edgington. Brandon Besl doubled to score Hurley to extend the lead to 6-0. All of these runs thru the first two innings are unearned against Columbus starter Matt Shoemaker. Cincinnati made it a 7-0 lead after plating one more off a basehit by Brandon Besl scoring Tommy Nurre who lead off with a double in the 5^th.

Columbus broke up the shutout in the 5^th inning with three consecutive basehits that scored one and the All Americans rally stalled after that. The All Americans scored 3 in the bottom of the 6^th inning off of reliever Bryan Earley in his first outing for the Steam. That is the way the game would finish as Adam Eaton came on in the 7^th to pick up his first save of the season.

Game 1

Teams                1 2 3    4 5 6    7     R     H    E
Steam                3 3 0    0 1 0    0     7      8     0
All Americans     0  0 0    0 1 3    0     4      9     2

WP – O’Gara (2-0) LP – Shoemaker (2-1) Sv – Eaton (1)

Steam Hitting Leaders: Nurre (3-4) 2 doubles 2 runs 2 rbi, Besl (3-3) double 2 rbi, O’Conner double 3 rbi

All Americans Hitting Leaders: Johnston (3-4), Roberts (2-3) 2 runs, Dygert (2-3) 2 rbi

Records: Cincinnati Steam (14-4) Columbus All Americans (9-8)

Steam come from behind to defeat All Americans 2-1

Cincinnati extended their winning streak to six games by coming from behind to defeat Columbus 2-1. Starter Joel Ernst went five strong innings in his first start of the season. Ernst was a little wild in the bottom of the first allowing a lead off walk which eventually scored to be his only blemish of the game. Eric Braeckel pitched the 6^th and 7^th innings to record his first win of the summer to even his record at 1-1.

Cincinnati tied the game in the 6^th inning off a one out walk by Zach Hurley, a stolen base, and a double by Brandon Besl plating Hurley. The Steam scored the go ahead run in the top of the 7^th off reliever Tim Mowry. Jake Brown lead off with a single. Brown was pinch run for by Jon Edgington. Edgington went to second on a sacrifice bunt by Nate Fields and advanced to third on a ground out by Adam Eaton. Brad Gschwind did it again to the All Americans by driving in the game winning run, blooping a single to right scoring Edgington. Gschwind beat the All Americans last week at home by driving in the game winning run in the bottom of the 9^th inning.

Game 2

Teams              1 2 3    4 5 6     7       R    H   E
Steam              0 0  0    0  0  1     1       2     7   0
All Americans   1 0  0    0  0  0     0       1     5   1

WP – Braeckel (1-1) LP – Mowry (0-1) Sv – None

Steam Hitting Leaders: Gschwind gwrbi, Hurley run scored, Besl 2-3 double rbi, J. Brown 2-3 double

All Americans Hitting Leaders: Leonard 2-3, Lewis rbi

Records: Cincinnati Steam (15-4) Columbus All Americans (9-9)