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Squirrels Fail To Find that Elusive Sweep

By John Miller, 10/24/21, 3:45PM CDT

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Sunday’s weather was a big factor with wind gusts up to 25 mph. The Flying Squirrels had one game hitting into the wind, one game with the wind at our back. The games progressed as you would expect. First up were the 66 er’s. A pitcher’s duel broke out as the Squirrels had a 3-2 lead heading into the 6th.  Dustin Bone smacked a two run single followed by RBI singles from Robbie Franklin and John Miller to increase the lead to 7-2. With two more chances the 66 er’s could only push one more across to close the final margin to 7-3. Three doubles and a crazy bounce triple were the only extra base knocks for the Squirrels.

Now, let us move to a field 1 with the wind blowing out against the red-hot Storm Chasers winners of 6 of their last 7. In a short 5 inning game, the Squirrels won each of the first 4 innings thanks to 8 bombs, 2 by Tim Jamieson, 3 by Brian Ortega, one from Randy Ransom and 2 from Dustin Bone. Heading into the 5th and final inning, the Squirrels sported a comfortable 16-9 lead. The Squirrels had their first scoreless inning, still no worries. The Storm Chasers got two quick outs and were looking to end the inning to get one more chance. One base hit after another by the bottom of the order pulled the Storm Chasers to within 16-15 with two out, one on and Matt Brumley up. Brumley had been kept in the park all day…not anymore!! A two-run walk off home run ripped the hearts out of the Squirrels as the Storm Chasers prevailed 17-16. The defensive play of the game was also made by Brumley, as the Squirrels loaded the bases in the bottom of the second with no outs and the top of the line up coming up to inflict some real damage. A hard hit ball down the third base line was cleanly fielded by Brum, he touched the runner on 3rd, touched 3rd base and fired to second base for an easy triple play that could have been a quadruple play if needed. Brum’s play will have 15 captains scratching their head why they passed him up in the fall draft.

Stars for the Squirrels were Brian Ortega 4-4, two walks, double, 3 HR’s, 5 runs, 4 RBI’s. Tim Jamieson was 5-6, two doubles, two HR’s, 5 runs, 4 RBI’s. Dustin Bone was 5-6, double, triple, 2 HR’s, 5 runs, 6 RBI’s. Randy Ransom was 3-5, walk, double, HR, 4 runs, 2 RBI’s.