Get It Any Way You Can

Chillicothe 2,Traverse City 1

Wow. This was a game that was, for lack of a better word, strange. Perhaps, I might even be puting it mildly with that. The offense for the Chillicothe Paints mustered up only 2 hits throughout this game, and neither of those two hits factored into how the Paints got their two runs across the plate. Rather, it was by a throwing error and a passed ball by the Traverse City Beach Bums that helped matters for the Paints.

Sean Anderson batted leadoff and had a single. Jeff Vincent had a double. That was it, and they didn't compare to the big eighth inning that the Paints had. In the eighth, Joe Spiers took a walk. Sean Anderson was hit by a pitch. Nathan Faulkner bunted a ball on the extremely slow FieldTurf surface infield which was thrown away by the Beach Bums' defense. Adrian Cantu struck out. A passed ball went by the Beach Bums catcher to score Spiers who was at third. Travis Garcia then drove in Anderson, who was on third after the passed ball, via sacrifice fly.

Before you know it, those are two runs that won it for the Paints. Amazing, isn't it?

Brian Gartley made the start for the Paints. He would go 5 and 2/3 innings deep. He gave up only one run while giving up 4 walks and 3 hits and also plunking a batter. He struck out 3 batters. By far, this had to be Gartley's best outing in quite awhile. He has had it the roughest out of any starting pitcher for the Chillicothe Paints this year, so this was very refreshing to hear on the radio.

Speaking of the radio, I'd like to make a shoutout to Paints broadcaster Ryan Mitchell, who does a really solid job at doing what he does. He sure does have the voice to be that play-by-play guy on the radio for baseball games. He also can be quite clever using analogies to describe certain situations the Paints are in. I enjoy listening to the games, and one reason would be Ryan's commentary. Thanks, Ryan.