Miners Shutout Rascals 4-0

(SIL) Suttle HR (1) 2RBI; Hall RBI (24), Simon RBI (15);

WP: Brian Blomquist (2-3) LP: Brody Taylor (0-2)
The Miners won behind some good pitching tonight, and clutch hitting. The Miners signed a new pitcher today, Ryan ? He will be starting Sunday's game. We had to cut someone but I don't know who yet. Sorry for the lack of Information, I worked late Saturday night. Southern Illinois at River City Sunday.

go_rascals said,
on July 1st, 2007 at 9:56 am
I made the game Saturday. Both times I have been to Rent One Stadium the Miners shut out their opponents.
Blomquist scattered four singles, and got some great defense. Center fielder Kevin Koski would have been on “Web Gems” if ESPN covered the Frontier League. In the fourth he raced to his right and made a diving grab of a Bobby Mosby fly ball at the juncture between the warning track and the outfield wall. Shortstop Mike Scanzano threw out two Rascals runners from the edge of the outfield grass.
The Rascals hitters were pressing and Blomquist got a lot of first-pitch outs. In the fifth and again in the seventh he needed only five pitches to dispatch River City. He was with the Rascals in training camp so he had to love shutting them down.
Rascals lefty starter Brody Taylor had something that led the Miners to run all over him. I don’t know if he wasn’t paying attention to the runners or what, but runners on first ran on him four times in the first three innings, Ryan Kane was safe twice, Ralph Santana was thrown out by catcher Ken Lup, and Scott Simon went to second when Scanzano grounded out. Scanzano stole a base in the sixth. I guess Taylor finally started paying attention in the seventh. Koski led off with a single and Taylor caught him breaking for second for a 1-3-6 put out. Santana then singled, and a fan near us yelled “You may get the rookie that way but you won’t get Santana!” He was wrong, as Santana was retired the very same way.
This may have been the shortest nine inning Frontier League game I have ever seen at two hours, three minutes. After the recent spate of three and a half hour marathons the short game was welcome.