Dawg Gone It

The bright side, the bullpen pitched 4 scoreless innings allowing only 2 hits and zero walks. A pat on the back for Prospect Relief Pitchers Corey Gilligan and Tanner Knutson for shutting down the Dawgs potent offense.

Unfortunately, by the time Gilligan took the mound in the 6th, the Okotoks Dawgs (7-5) had built an 11-3 lead en route to the decisive 11-4 win over our Prospects (2-8). 

The Prospects opened the scoring in the first inning when RF Ethan Sterkel singled home CF Grant Glasser.

In the bottom of the 2nd, after the Dawgs had put up 4 runs in the top half, Sterkel would collect his 2nd RBI of the game singling home DH Aubrey Dezarn.

The Prospects, showing no quit after the Dawgs put up 2 more in the top of the 3rd, would add another single run in bottom half of the inning.  2B Kevin Czarnecki, who had replaced starter Cody Kielsa, singled home starting 1B Matthew Miller.

In the 7th inning, refusing to go quietly into the night, the Prospects would score their 4th run of the night when replacement 1B Ryan Kosolofski doubled home LF Brandon Bufton.  Staying with the train of thought of refusing to go quietly into the night, starting C Jamie Mitchell was ejected from game after arguing balls and strikes with the umpire.

NUGGETS

In the bottom of the 8th, CF Grant Glasser singled to extend his hitting streak to 9 nine games.

RP Tanner Knutson is now up to 5 and 2/3 innings of shutout baseball for the Prospects.