2025 Fall League Results- Week 3

The many colors of baseball!!

9/28/25- Spiders 8 - Hortons 3-

The Spiders earned their first win of the spring, riding solid pitching from Jeff Whitehead and Ken Sloat, and taking advantage of Hortons miscues in a big 5-run 3rd inning for an 8-3 win over the 1-2 Hortons.

The Spiders plated one in the first off of Hortons hurler Chris Bernacki on consecutive singles by Miguel Ringler, Whitehead, and Ed Cauley, but a relay from CF Micah Winston to SS Bill Evans to 3B John Malikowski to nail Whitehead at 3B cut the rally short.

Whitehead threw blanks in the first 3 innings against the powerful Hortons lineup, allowing 1 baserunner each inning. In the 2nd, the Spiders took advantage of timely inning and several defensive errors to score 5 and mount a daunting 6-0 lead. Jim Fogarty led off with a single, and with 2 outs, the roof fell in. After a wild pitch, rookie Tom Ingram lofted a massive RBI single to deep LF, Nolan Anaya singled, Sloat singled in a run, Anaya scored on a wild pitch, Ringler reached on an error and Whitehead crushed an RBI double to deep RF.

The Hortons finally broke through against Whitehead in the bottom of the 4th on Chad Walker’s 2-run single that scored Diego Ortiz, who had reached on a FC, and Scott Dunaisky, who had singled. However, the Spiders got one back in the top of the 5th when Jim Fogarty singled and ended up scoring on a throwing error.

Both teams brought in relief pitchers in the 6th – Evans for the Hortons and Sloat for the Spiders, who each allowed only 1 run in their 4 innings of work, both in the 6th inning. The Spiders scored when Anaya singled and scored on an error, after manager Winston elected to intentionally walk Whitehead. For the Hortons, after Malikowski walked, Shawn O’Grady blasted one of the longest hits in Fall Ball memory, to deep RF, scoring Malikowski, but as he raced home for a sure rare Fall Ball HR, he tragically tripped and fell half-way down the line and was tagged out in a rundown.

The Hortons threatened in the 9th, putting the first 2 runners, but their ineptitude with runners in scoring position (2-11) was in full effect, as Sloat retired the last 3 batters to shut the door.

Top hitters for the Spiders were Nolan Anaya (3-6, 2 R), Jeff Whitehead (2-2, 2IBB, RBI), Jim Fogarty (3-5, 2R). For the Hortons, Shawn O’Grady (2-4, 3B, RBI),Scott Dunaisky (2-4, R) and Chad Walker (2-4, RBI) led the way.

Amazingly, only 3 of the Spiders runs scored on RBIs.

9/28/25- Sons of Pitches 6 - Meadowlarks 2