The Chillicothe Mudcats college-level wood-bat baseball team can't shake its slow-starting way and its record continues to suffer.
Their opponent scoring first for an eighth-consecutive game since they started the summer 4-1, the Mudcats fell to 7-6 overall and 4-6 in the MINK League last (Wednesday) night with a
6-4 home loss to the previously-floundering Joplin Outlaws.
Joplin had won only one of its previous 11 league games, but clubbed a pair of early 2-run home runs, built a 6-1 lead, and then turned back Chillicothe's latest bid for late-inning, comeback victory.
The Mudcats scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the eighth and tacked on another in the ninth and had the potential tying run on with one out, but could do no more damage and lost for the fourth time in the last five tries.
“It’s a heartbreaker because we had chances in the eighth and ninth to win the game,” Mudcats head coach Kirk Kelley commented on the near-miss.
The same two teams will meet again at Chillicothe's "June" Shaffer Memorial Park each of the next two nights, weather permitting. Righthander Bryce Biggerstaff (0-1) is Chillicothe's scheduled starting pitcher for tonight's 7:05 game.
The Mudcats' sponsoring organization, the non-profit Grand River Entertainment, has announced it will collect free-will cash donations by "passing the hat" during Friday's series finale with the Outlaws to aid the fellow MINK League team meet its 2011 expenses. The Outlaws' financial outlook and resources were impacted by the devastating late-May tornado which ripped through the southwest Missouri city.
GRE has issued a special invitation to area baseball fans and all area residents of good will to stuff Shaffer Park with a large turnout and consider bringing a cash donation for the charitable collection to be taken up tomorrow night.
After starting pitcher Dylan Owen worked around a leadoff bloop single in the first, stranding a man at third with two outs, the Mudcats had a chance to do the game's first scoring. However, after Justin Creel, back from an absence of several games because of a slight hamstring pull, legged out a hard grounder and advanced on a wild pitch, brother Matt Creel's long fly was gathered in in deep left-center field to end the inning.
By the time the Fish got their next chance to swing the bats, they were in their familiar position of trailing.
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The Chillicothe Mudcats college-level wood-bat baseball team can't shake its slow-starting way and its record continues to suffer.
Their opponent scoring first for an eighth-consecutive game since they started the summer 4-1, the Mudcats fell to 7-6 overall and 4-6 in the MINK League last (Wednesday) night with a
6-4 home loss to the previously-floundering Joplin Outlaws.
Joplin had won only one of its previous 11 league games, but clubbed a pair of early 2-run home runs, built a 6-1 lead, and then turned back Chillicothe's latest bid for late-inning, comeback victory.
The Mudcats scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the eighth and tacked on another in the ninth and had the potential tying run on with one out, but could do no more damage and lost for the fourth time in the last five tries.
“It’s a heartbreaker because we had chances in the eighth and ninth to win the game,” Mudcats head coach Kirk Kelley commented on the near-miss.
The same two teams will meet again at Chillicothe's "June" Shaffer Memorial Park each of the next two nights, weather permitting. Righthander Bryce Biggerstaff (0-1) is Chillicothe's scheduled starting pitcher for tonight's 7:05 game.
The Mudcats' sponsoring organization, the non-profit Grand River Entertainment, has announced it will collect free-will cash donations by "passing the hat" during Friday's series finale with the Outlaws to aid the fellow MINK League team meet its 2011 expenses. The Outlaws' financial outlook and resources were impacted by the devastating late-May tornado which ripped through the southwest Missouri city.
GRE has issued a special invitation to area baseball fans and all area residents of good will to stuff Shaffer Park with a large turnout and consider bringing a cash donation for the charitable collection to be taken up tomorrow night.
After starting pitcher Dylan Owen worked around a leadoff bloop single in the first, stranding a man at third with two outs, the Mudcats had a chance to do the game's first scoring. However, after Justin Creel, back from an absence of several games because of a slight hamstring pull, legged out a hard grounder and advanced on a wild pitch, brother Matt Creel's long fly was gathered in in deep left-center field to end the inning.
By the time the Fish got their next chance to swing the bats, they were in their familiar position of trailing.
