Double Trouble, Paints Drop Two

Chillicothe 4, Windy City 5 (Game 1)

Chillicothe 0, Windy City 3 (Game 2)

Ouch. That would be one word to define this doubleheader the Chillicothe Paints had with the visiting Windy City Thunderbolts. In the first game of this doubleheader, the Paints batted first as the guests because this game originally started in Crestwood, Illinois. The game would be rained out back on July 10th, and would be made up when the two teams met again. This happened to be that day for it.

Ryan Flanigan pitched the rest of the first game from the third inning through the ninth inning, and in 7 innings of work, Flanny gave up 3 runs on 3 hits allowed and gave up a pair of walks. He struck out three batters.

For the offense, Travis Garcia had a single and a double. Drew Saylor had a single. Travis Storrer had a single. Nathan Faulkner had two singles and 2 RBI's. The first game was lost to the T-Bolts because of a big error made by the Paints defense. An off-angle throw by Drew Saylor pulled first baseman Adrian Cantu off the bag and chasing the ball in shallow right field. Two runs scored for Windy City right there.

Now in the second game, the offense for the Paints couldn't score any runs. In fact, they only three hits all game. Drew Saylor had two of those hits, two singles, and Jeff Vincent had the other, a double to go along with a stolen base he would pick up later on, but other than that, nothing happened. They were shut out by a much stronger and a much more mentally focused Thunderbolts team.

Mike Rocco made the start for the Paints in the second game. He went 5+ innings, giving up 2 runs on 3 hits allowed, while walking three batters, plunking two batters, and striking out one batter. Marty Wiesler saw some time on the mound in relief. Marty pitched the rest of the game and struck out two batters while giving up a run on a hit, plunking a batter, and throwing a wild pitch.

This type of baseball is just plain old ugly at this point. I can't help but think about when I read Phil Gray's Gameday Report, that he mentioned that it wouldn't hurt to go out with a bang. You know, I just don't know if we're going to get the bang that we want to go out on, because this team's confidence looks absolutely shot right now. Just a day or night in the life of a diehard baseball fan, I guess.