Unlucky 13

It was a game that featured 5 lead changes,what should have been called a steal of home plate, and over 4 hours of entertainment!!  In the end, your Edmonton Prospects (5-13) would fall to the league leading Regina Red Sox (17-3) in 13 innings by the score of 8-7.

Edmonton Prospects starting pitcher Cashtyn DeLeeuw (1-2 5.70 ERA), much like the Red Sox starter Eaton, would struggle through the first 3 innings as the game sat at 5-5 after 3 innings.  DeLeeuw would settle down pitching strong 4th and 5th innings while dancing out of a loaded bases jam in the 6th inning to leave the game with a 6-5 lead.

After the Red Sox tied it in the top of the 7th, DH Jarryd Klemm would be the story of the bottom of the 7th.  After reaching base with a single, Klemm would steal second and then advance to third on a throwing error by the catcher.  Then, running on movement on a 2-1 count, the Red Sox pitcher threw a 75 foot bouncer to the plate (being called a wild pitch) and Klemm would be able to score the go ahead run making it 7-6 for our Prospects.

Prospects Relief Pitcher Tanner Knutson would come into the game in the 9th and with 1 out allow the game tying run to the Red Sox.  Knutson then deserves a pat on the back for slamming the door shut as he would hold the Red Sox hitless for the next 3 innings.

The Red Sox would score the top of the 13th and their dominant closer, Nick Huff, slammed the door shut in the bottom half to seal the loss for our boys.

Scoring Summary:

In the first inning, down 2-0, 3B Chase Keuhl (playing in front of visiting family and friends) would single and then aided by a Red Sox error, SS Kevin Czarnecki would cross the plate for our Prospects.  RF Ethan Sterkel, extending his hit streak to 9, would single scoring Kuehl and tying the game at 2.

The Prospects would take the lead in the 2nd inning when 2B Miles Shelton Jr would bring home DH Jarryd Klemm.

Down 5-3 in the 3rd inning, our Prospects would load the bases with nobody out.  DH Jarryd Klemm and 1B Ryan Kosolofski would each bring home a run to once again tie the game.

In the 5th inning, SS Miles Shelton Jr would pick up his 2nd RBI of the night when he singled driving home Kosolofski once again.  Shelton Jr also gets credit for the defensive play of the day when he climbed the invisible ladder and flat out robbed the Red Sox of a hit.

NUGGET:

The Prospects and Red Sox are back at tonight at 7:05PM at Telus Field.  Craig George (0-1 3.38 ERA) takes the mound for our Prospects.

SPECIAL THANK YOU

A special thank you to the Al Shamal Shriners for providing some Friday night

 pre-game entertainment making balloon animals for all the youngsters in the crowd.

ATTENTION FOOTBALL FANS

When leaving Commonwealth stadium tonight bring your ticket stub to Telus Field!
Your ticket stub plus $5 allows you to see the rest of our game!

Big Test For Our Boys

Our Edmonton Prospects (5-12) return to action Friday night at Telus Field after a rain assisted three day hiatus.  Waiting for them will be the Regina Red Sox (16-3).

The Red Sox are such a good team, in part, due to their balance.  Their offence and pitching rank top three in practically every statistical category but our Prospects will avoid one of their best players.  Red Sox Starting Pitcher Daniel Jones (5-0 0.49 ERA) just pitched Wednesday likely making him unavailable for our games this weekend.

An area of our Prospects game that has been steadily improving has been our starting pitching.  Cashtyn DeLeeuw (1-2 6.75 ERA) will start on Friday night while Craig George (0-1 3.38 ERA) will take the mound on Saturday.

Offensively speaking, our Prospects lead off hitter CF Grant Glasser has done everything you can ask of from a baseball player.  Glasser leads the team in  Runs Scored (11), Triples (2), RBI (8), Walks (11), and Stolen Bases (8).

The hottest Prospect player of late has been RF Ethan Sterkel who since last Tuesday has gone 18 for 27 raising his batting average to a mind-blowing .561!!

While one hopes the days off do not stifle Sterkel, one hopes the days off spark LF Brandon Bufton.  At the beginning of last week heading to Saskatchewan, Bufton was batting .325.  Currently sitting at .246, here's a vote of confidence that the weekend will go well and the average breaks the quarter century mark.

NUGGET

The Prospects have two batters who have earned more walks than strikeouts.  They are 2B Cody Kielsa (5W 4K 18AB .278 AVG) and IF Chase Kuehl (6W 5K 45AB .267 AVG)

CANADA DAY

While our Prospects are in Lethbridge, you should be at Telus Field!

Gates open at 8PM for the best seats in the city to watch the Canada Day Fireworks.

Free admission, free parking!!

Prospects staff will be there to promote July 6-9 homestand.

So Close

Our Edmonton Prospects (5-12) would fall just short last night at Telus Field losing to the Moose Jaw Miller Express (8-11) by the score of 9-6.

Our Prospects would open the scoring in the 1st inning when RF Ethan Sterkel would single driving home CF Grant Glasser.

After Moose Jaw put up three runs in the second inning, our Prospects would get one back in the third.  DH Chase Kuehl with the sacrifice fly to plate SS Kevin Czarnecki.

Down 5-2 going into the bottom of the 5th, our Prospects would cut the lead to one.  With one out, Moose Jaw would turn to their bullpen for help.  A wild throw to first base cashing in Prospects 1B Markus Fergusson probably was not the in the masterplan.  That same at bat, Prospects C Jarryd Klemm would earn his first RBI of the season with a groundout scoring 3B Cody Kielsa.

Coming out of the 7th inning stretch, our Prospects were down 6-4.  Markus Fergusson, who deserves a pat on the back for an outstanding game going 4-5, would triple earning himself an RBI to top off his night.  The still hot Ethan Sterkel would cross the plate on the plate on the play, Sterkel most definitely earns a pat on the back for  what has been an 18-27 stretch at the plate the past week!  Cody Kielsa would then drive in the game tying run.

Alas the game would slip away in the Top of the 8th, all with 2 outs to add salt to the wound.  The Miller Express would score the last three runs of the game.

NUGGET

Our Prospects would steal an AMAZING 10 Bases during the game.

NEXT GAME

Tonight versus the Okotoks Dawgs (9-7) in Okotoks.  First pitch at 7:05.

Scheduled starter for your Prospects is Markus Fergusson (1-0 3.97 ERA).  In Fergusson's last outing, he pitched a complete game shutout versus Yorkton.

The Dawgs hold a 3-1 series lead thus far this season versus our Prospects.

LET US BE A PART OF YOUR CANADA DAY WEEKEND

Friday, June 29 vs Regina Red Sox

"School's Out For Summer"

If you are a School Principal or Teacher and would be interested in distributing special vouchers to your students, please contact the Prospects Baseball Club via e-mail at info@athletes-nation.com

Saturday, June 30 vs Regina Red Sox

 

Sunday, July 1st

We don't have a game BUT

the City is allowing free public parking and admission at Telus Field!

 

 Gates open at 8PM

 

Prospects Staff will be there promoting your team and their July 6-9 Homestand!!

 

Wild night at the ball park!

Your Edmonton Prospects (5-11) won their 2nd extra inning game of the week defeating the Moose Jaw Miller Express (7-11) by the score of 6-5 in 10 innings.

Prospects Starting Pitcher Craig George would go 8 and 1/3 innings, earning himself a pat on the back for a strong performance!  George would spread out 9 hits over his 8 innings of work while being charged with 3 runs. 

The Prospects quickly got back the 1st inning run allowed by George, when leadoff batter CF Grant Glasser doubled and then 5 pitches later was singled home by SS Kevin Czarnecki.

During the 3rd inning, Prospects fans unknowingly saw an act of foreshadowing as 3B Chase Kuehl would score on a wild pitch.

Our Prospects would bump the lead to 3-1 during the 4th inning when Czarnecki would earn his 2nd RBI of the game with a 2-out single scoring DH Matthew Miller.

Now down 4-3 in the bottom of the 9th, Czarnecki would single, steal 2nd base then advance to 3rd base on a wild pitch.  LF Brandon Bufton would drive him with a sacrifice fly and off to extra innings we went.

In the bottom of the 10th, down 5-4, this is when the game got wild.  Prospect pinch runner, Jarryd Klemm would score on a wild pitch to tie the game.  Two batters later, Miles Shelton Jr would score the game winning run on yet another wild pitch.

NUGGET

RF Ethan Sterkel continues to warrant nomination for the league's #stayhot rankings.  Following his for 3-5 performance last night, Sterkel is now batting .636 on the week.  To vote for Sterkel, simply "cut and paste" the following onto your Twitter page and hit submit - - > " Prospects Ethan Sterkel has gone 14-22 (.636) with 3 doubles, 3 RBI, 2 SB since June 19 #stayhot rankings via @WMBL"

NEXT GAME

The re-match goes tonight at Telus Field at 7:05 PM.  Stinson Ott (1-1 3.21 ERA) is scheduled to take the mound for your Prospects tonight.

SPECIAL NOTICE

CANADA DAY WEEKEND

Friday, June 29 vs Regina Red Sox

  "School's Out For Summer"

If you are a School Principal or Teacher and would be interested in distributing special vouchers to your students, please contact the Prospects Baseball Club via e-mail at info@athletes-nation.com

Saturday, June 30 vs Regina Red Sox

Sunday, July 1st

We don't have a game BUT

 the City is allowing free public parking at Telus Field!

A tremendous opportunity for the Prospects to promote themselves,

the team is looking for a few volunteers to help the team out.

For more details, e-mail the club at info@athletes-nation.com



Onto the next challenge!

Sunday June 24th and Monday June 25th, your Edmonton Prospects welcome the Moose Jaw Miller Express to the friendly confines of Telus Field.  Both games start at 7:05PM.

The two teams alternated wins and loses versus each other last season.  The Prospects won their games by the scores of 14-13 and 6-5. 

In last year's 14-13 win, Grant Glasser went 2-5 with a Walk and a Stolen Base to pace the Prospect offense.  In last year's 6-5 win, Andrew Mirasty would come in relief of Craig George and earn the victory.

For this Sunday's game, Craig George (0-1) draws the starting assignment for our Prospects.  It will be George's first action since the season opener on June 2nd.  Last season, George finished with 5 wins, 5 losses and a 5.34 ERA.

NUGGET

IF Kevin Czarnecki only 1 had start last season and it was against Moose Jaw.  The Edmonton product would go 2-4 with a Stolen Base.

Sometimes Goliath beats David

The Medicine Hat Mavericks (12-5) defeated our Edmonton Prospects (4-11) by a score of 6-1.

Prospects Starting Pitcher Cashtyn DeLeeuw (1-2) shut down one of the leagues most potent offenses until the 4th inning.  While the Mavericks were able to score three runs in the inning, an effective pitcher's memory must be short and Deleeuw was effective on this night going 7 good innings.

The David versus Goliath the title eludes to is in regards to the starting pitcher for Medicine Hat.  Billy Martin (3-1) came into the game with an ERA under 1.00.  So you knew the sledding was going to get tough(er) after our Prospects scored in the bottom of the 4th inning.

DH Jamie Mitchell would double driving in RF Ethan Sterkel to shave the lead down to 3-1.  No other Prospect would pass 2nd base for the rest of the game.

NUGGETS

Ethan Sterkel's torrid week continues!!  Going 2-4 tonight, Sterkel has gone 11-17 since Tuesday!

SS Kevin Czarnecki saw his 7 game hitting streak come to an end tonight.

NEXT GAME

SUNDAY NIGHT VS MOOSE JAW

TELUS FIELD

7:05PM

Coming home a winner

Your Edmonton Prospects (4-10) have left Saskatchewan earning wins in 2 out of 4 games.  The 2nd win almost got away though.

With the Prospects leading 2-1 going into the bottom of the 7th inning, the team committed back-to-back-to-back errors allowing the Milllionaires to tie the game at deuces.  Prospects Starting Pitcher Chris Allen would settle for the no-decision but he most definitely deserves a pat on the back for an excellent game!!  Allen would spread out 6 hits, strikeout 5 and my favorite stat, walk zero!!

Prospect Relief Pitcher Tanner Knutson (1-0) would come into the game in the 8th inning and continue his befuddling of WMBL hitters thus far this season.  With 3 scoreless innings on Thursday, Knutson is now up to 8 and 2/3 innings of shutout baseball this summer.

The Prospects opened the scoring in the 2nd inning with an RBI single from 1B Matthew Miller.  In the 5th inning, RF Ethan Sterkel would put the Prospects up 2-1 with an RBI single of his own.

The Prospects would win the game by a score of 3-2 in the 10th inning when C Jamie Mitchell would knock in LF Brandon Bufton.

NUGGETS

One wonders if RF Ethan Sterkel will be sad to leave Saskatchewan.  Over the past 4 games, Sterkel has gone 9-13, with 3 RBI, 3 doubles and 2 stolen bases.  If you are on Twitter, please be sure to tweet about Sterkel's week using the #stayhot hashtag.

The flip side, two of the hottest Edmonton Prospects players leading into the road trip are likely very happy to be coming back to Edmonton.  CF Grant Glasser and LF Brandon Bufton, who are 1 and 2 among Prospects for most hits, look to continue their assault on the basepaths at the friendly confines of Telus Field.

NOTES FOR TONIGHT'S GAME

vs MEDICINE HAT MAVERICKS 7:05pm

The Mavericks (11-5) lead the league in runs scored, doubles and walks.  For as scary as that sounds, at least the Mavericks are in the lower half of the league in the Homerun department.

Cashtyn DeLeeuw (1-1) will be given the daunting task of being tonight's Prospect Starting Pitcher.  I am sure DeLeeuw can count on us Prospect fans to help "clap out" the Maverick offense.

Grant Glasser went 10-30 with 2 walks and an RBI last season against the Mavericks.

SPECIAL NOTE

Edmonton is a great place to live in part because their is always something big happening.  Just this past week, the city had a great concert and football game.

If you bring your Ticketmaster ticket stub from either event to the Prospects Box Office for TONIGHT'S GAME ONLY, you will receive $2 off a regular price ticket.  Offer valid only on Adult tickets!  That is enough money saved to buy a 50/50 ticket!!