4/13/99 Dover @Away

It wasn't a pleasant day for baseball, the temperature was in the 50's but the wind chill had to be close to 32 degrees. The game itself wasn't a thing of beauty. At the end of regulation the score was tied 7-7, but only two of those 14 runs had been earned. At the end of four innings Summit had scored 3 runs but still hadn't had a hit and Dover had six runs on only three hits. Two key plays occured at home plate. In the bottom of the 5th, with the score 6-4 in favor of Dover and a man on third with no outs, Matt Bendetti hauled in a sacrifice fly and made a great throw home in plenty of time to get the runner coming from third. Andy Breene appeared to put a clean tag on the runner, but the umpire called him safe. In the next inning, with the score tied 7-7, Mike Nelson came home on a wild pitch and appeared to safe by a sizable margin, yet the umpire called him out and we went into extra innings.

Ben Wheeless had pitched a fine game for seven innings, allowing no earned runs and only 5 hits. Unfortunately, he had to throw 121 pitches in those seven innings. The fans were surprised to see him take the mound in the 8th inning. He walked the first batter on four pitches. The next batter laid down a good bunt that Wheeless threw a bit wide to first, but Jon Campagna appeared to make the tag anyway. The umpire saw it differently, runners on 1st and 2nd and no outs. The next batter laid down another bunt and Breene tried to get the runner at third, but the throw was a hair late, bases loaded. The next batter hit the first pitch for a clean single, and it was all over.

PLAYER	POS	AB	R	H	RBI	E
Lipsey	SS	4	1	0	0	3
Nelson	3B	4	1	1	0	1
Wheeless	P	4	0	1	1	1
Campagna	1B	3	1	1	0	0
Donaldson	LF	4	0	0	0	0
Fischer	RF	4	1	0	0	0
Benedetti	CF	1	1	0	0	1
Monaco	DH	3	1	1	1	0
Carey	2B	2	1	1	1	0
Breene	C	0	0	0	0	0
Hartlaub	PH	1	0	0	0	0
TOTALS		30	7	5	3	6

Pitcher	W/L	IP	H	R	ER	BB	HB	WP	K
Wheeless	L	7	6	8	1	2	0	1	5