Bucs pitching shuts down Nooks

Tim Barto-Chinooks

Game Nine Summary

Baseball is the strangest of games. Last night the Chinooks amassed 11 hits in a winning cause, but Thursday night's game against the Anchorage Bucs found the Fish struggling to get a handful. Leadoff batter Oliver Degenhardt was an offensive bright spot, getting on base three times via two singles and an error. He also scored a run, driven home in the eighth inning when Jordan Jaffe hammered a pitch over the wall for a two-run homer. The fourth Chinook to record a base hit was designated hitter Jacob Hayes, who followed Jaffe's dinger with a double. The Bucs committed four errors on the night, but the Chinooks were not able to capitalize on them. Such is baseball. 

Starting on the mound for the Chinooks was righthander Bowen Brantingham. He didn't have the good stuff from his previous outings, but still hung in there for four-plus innings, throwing 104 pitches in what will be his last appearance this season, as the Air Force cadet has to return to the Lower 48 to complete his summer military training requirement.

Brayden Adams, a sophomore out of Columbia International University, came into relieve Brantingham with no outs and a runner on in the fifth. The Bucs greeted him rather rudely with four straight base hits. After surrendering four runs that inning, Adams found his rhythm, retiring the side three-up-three-down in the sixth and facing the minimum three batters in the seventh. He held the Bucs scoreless the rest of the game. 

Final score:  Chinooks 2, Bucs 8.  The Chinooks are now four and five in league play (five and seven overall). 

Next game is at the unusual starting time of 9:00 pm (repeat - 9:00 pm) on Saturday against the Anchorage Pilots at Mulcahy Stadium.