2025 Summer League Results- Week 11

7/9/25- Wonders 5 - Isotopes 2

INNING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

WONDERS 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 5 13 3

ISOTOPES 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 0

Wonders starter Rick Stacy strikes out 7 and scattered 5 hits to get the complete game victory. His third base man Shawn Thompson scores two runs and drives in one with a perfect 3 for 3 night at the plate including two doubles. Both teams were a little banged up, but Isotopes left at least 10 runners stranded hurting their chances to leap over into fourth place in the standings.

Rick Stacy 7 innings

Gary Webber 5 innings

Jessie Higgin-Botham 2 innings

7/10/25- Plugs 7 - Goats 1

WP: Jeff Whitehead

LP: Tony Dismukes

The Fainting Goats hosted the Plug Uglies at Mitchell Field in a rematch from two weeks prior, when the Goats topped the Uglies for a 9-8 win.

The Goats got on the board in the 2nd inning. Josh Weiss reached on a fielder’s choice against Plugs starter Jeff Whitehead, and was knocked in by a Scott Bacon single. In the bottom frame the Uglies had two runners in scoring position but couldn’t cash in against Goats starter Tony “Bama” Dismukes. Goats take the lead 1-0 after two.

Whitehead cruised from there, striking out the side in the 3rd and pitching scoreless frames through the rest of game. The Uglies defense was solid, giving their starter errorless play in the field.

Ugly bats came to life in the top of the fourth. With the bases loaded and one out, Rob “Ecc” Eccleston hit a sac fly that scored Nolan Anaya. Greg “Chip Reeder” Elbaum walked and the bases were loaded again. Jeff Cabana whacked a double to plate two more runs. The parade continued with RBI hits from Morris “Mo” Partee, Eric “Noodles” Bennett, and Chris “Chaka” Scanlon. 6-1 in favor of the Plugs after 4 innings.

The Goats flashed the leather in the 5th inning. Anaya hit a bomb down the left field line, but Goats outfielder Josh Weiss ran like The Flash and made an amazing and improbable back handed catch that saved a run. Later, with two runners on, Weiss did it again with another gold glove catch to steal a line drive bomb to end the inning.

The Plugs added an additional run in the 6th with another Bennett RBI single. Reliever Tom “TC” Conway came on in the top of the 7th and struck out the side to hold the Uglies, but the Goats went down 1-2-3 to end the game.

Final score: Plug Uglies 7, Fainting Goats 1

7/10/25- Grays 10 - Phillies 9 (8 innings)

It was a game for the ages, at the Beachgrounds, as Jay Sadowski’s bases-loaded infield hit in the bottom of the 8th gave the Dorian Grays sole possession of first place after the Phillies mounted an unlikely comeback to tie the game in the 7th and force to enter extra innings.

The top two teams in the league faced off for the first time this year (not counting 1 inning of a game postponed by rain), and it was a doozy. The Grays started the wily Chris “Nacho” Bernacki on the mound, and the Phillies countered with fireballer Colin “Hos” Hosley. The Phillies threatened in the first, putting 2 men on with 1 out, but Andy Klepacki’s bat-end flair up the middle was snagged backhanded on a dive by 2B Tim Bombard, who then poked the base to nab the runner who had been running on the pitch.

Bernacki only allowed one baserunner over the next 3 innings, helped by Seth Miller’s running catch in right-center of a long fly ball by Jon Ross in the 2nd. The Phillies had a unusual double play of their own in the 2nd, when Steve Powers’ smash to LF was caught by Ross, who languidly tossed the ball in to 2B to double off the runner who hadn’t realized the ball had been caught.

The Grays finally drew first blood in the bottom of the 3rd. Miller and Bernacki singled, and then with 2 outs, Hosley appeared to escape the jam by inducing Tim Tromblay to ground out to 3B, but the ball hit the lip of the poorly maintained infield and the wild bounce up almost took 3B Paul Griswold’s head off, deflecting off his glove and into shallow left field, allowing Miller to score. This stroke of fortune opened the proverbial floodgates, as Marin Goldstein then walked, and Sadowski and John Malikowski each followed with 2-run singles for a 5-0 lead.

The Phillies gained one back in the top of the fifth when Paul Kaplan singled and came around on John Wills’ single. However, the Grays answered with 2 in their half. David Poppie singled and was forced at 2B by Tromblay, and after Goldstein walked, Sadowski smashed a 2-run double to deep CF.

In the 6th, the Phils added another when Miguel Ringler and Micah Winston singled, and the former scored on Ken Sloat’s RBI groundout. However, Bombard nailed Winston at the plate on a grounder to 3B to maintain the 5-run lead.

Down to their last at bat, the Phils awoke from their offensive slumber off a tiring Bernacki. Klepacki led off with a single and stole 2B, Kaplan walked and then Jim Fogarty and Ross followed with RBI singles. Sadowski relieved Bernacki and walked Wills, and then surrendered a 2-run single to Ron Totten, and a long sac fly by Ringler that tied the game.

Sloat came in to pitch the bottom of the 7th for the Phils and loaded the bases before twisting Powers into pretzel for strike 3, and on to extra innings it went.

The Phillies looked to be in good shape in the 8th, scoring a pair. With Griswold starting on 2B, Hosley singled, then Klepacki's 6-3 groundout scored Griswold and advanced pinch-runner Winston, who came in to score on Fogarty’s RBI 4-3 groundout. With two more runners on first and third, Sadowski induced a rally-ending 1-3 comebacker.

However, in the bottom of the 8th and Powers on 2B, Steve Cole smashed an RBI double that one-hopped the LF wall. With runners at 1st & 3rd and 1 out, Poppie looped a soft liner to CF, which Winston dove for, but it bounced off the tip of his glove. He was able to recover and get the force out at 2B, but the game was tied. Tromblay followed with a double, and then Goldstein was intentionally walked to set up the force but also taking the risk of having the dangerous Sadowski at bat. It was a bad gamble, as Sadowski threaded a grounder between 3B and SS. Griswold dove for it and it bounced off his glove, and by the time SS Klepacki picked it up, he had no play, and the winning run had scored.