Surrey Indians 9 VS Burnaby Brewers 3 (Jul 13)

Indians down the Brew Crew

The Indians were back at work and once again there was a last minute scramble to field a team of 9. Thanks to new call-up Jordan Olar and a gutsy outage from Chris Ren to complete a 10 man roster.

C. Ren got it started against the Brew crew tossing 2 shut out innings while recording 5 out of the 6 outs via the strike out. Ren walked 3 and hit a batter. Ren was removed from the game in the 3rd inning with a runner on 2nd. E. Roblero would go on to pitch the next 4 innings. After surrendering a base hit in the 3rd, Roblero would go on to retire the next 9 hitters in order. Roblero allowed 1 unearned run while surrendering only one base hit and striking out 2.

The Indians got on the board in the bottom of the second inning. B. Tonogai walked and with one out, K. Neidert smacked a triple to the right field alley. S. Sibley followed with a run scoring single.

Two more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning gave the tribe a 4-1 edge. Tonogai once again got it all started by walking for his second consecutive at bat and consequently stealing second. Neidert singled with 2 outs to push Tonogai across the plate and went to second on the throw home. Sibley once again came through to score Neidert.

In the top of the 7th, the Brewers responded with 2 runs of their own. O. Matsubara tossed the 7th and 8th innings allowing 2 runs on 3 hits, 2 base on balls and 2 strike outs. A single sandwiched between two walks was the undoing for Matsubara. The next hitter would rip a two run single to the right field gap but was gunned down at second trying to stretch it into a double.

In the bottom of the 8th, the tribe sent 10 men to the plate. Thank goodness we were batting 10 or there would have been no space to keep score. The inning started with Mr. Tonogai collecting a single and K. Grace and K.Neidert dis exactly the same. Then two free passes were issued to Sibley and Roblero. J. Olar capped the 5 run inning with a run scoring single.

Neidert tossed the last half of the 9th surrendering a double with one out but the Brew crew could do mo more damage. On another note, Neidert went 4 for 4 in this game – combined with his previous 4 at bats, Neidert is now 8-8 in his last 8 at bats. Just another day at the office for Neidert.

Player of the game nominations:

Brayden Tonogai 2 for 2, 1B(2), 3RS, 2BB
Enrique Roblero 2 for 3, 1B(2), 1BB, 1RBI * 4IP, 1R 0ER, 1H, 2K, 0BB,
Kris Neidert 4 for 4, 1B(3), 3B, 3 RS, 3RBI , 1SB * 1IP, 0R , 1H
Scott Sibley 2 for 3, 1B(2), 2RBI