Purple evens series at one game apiece
10/27/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Oct. 27, 2005
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Purple team evened the World Series at one game apiece with a dominating performance Thursday night, taking the game 2-0. Jake Arrieta threw five shutout innings for the Purple team and Matt Carpenter was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate. The White team was held to just three hits in the contest.
The Purple team tallied their first run of the series, taking the early 1-0 lead in the second inning. Carpenter led off the inning with a solid base hit. Hunt Woodruff followed with a base knock and each runner advanced an extra 90-feet on an error in right field. Matt Vern made the error pay as he lofted a sacrifice fly to right to plate Carpenter with the go-ahead run.
White was poised to tie the game at one as they had runners on the corners with only one out. Derek VerHagen got the inning started with a sharp single up the middle to start the inning. After a quick out, John Dao singled. A failed suicide squeeze saw VerHagen erased at the plate and Jake Arrieta struck out Ben Carruthers to end the inning.
Purple threatened again, getting the first two batters of the fourth inning on, but Will Skelton battled back, inducing a double play ball off the bat of Woodruff to end the threat.
In the sixth inning, Purple tacked on an insurance run off of reliever Taylor Cragin. Austin Adams doubled to lead off the inning and scored on an infield hit off the bat of Matt Vern to take a 2-0 lead.
The Purple team won the game with outstanding pitching on the mound. Arrieta went five strong innings, surrendering just two hits. He struck out seven, walked three and hit two batters. Chase Perry and Brent Allar pitched the final two innings to insure the win.
For White, Skelton gave up just one unearned run on five hits. He struck out two and walked two in his 4.2 innings of work. Cragin worked the final 2.1 innings allowing a run on four hits. He struck out two.
Tallying hits for the Purple squad were Carpenter with three and a hit each for Bryan Kervin, Matt McGuirk, Adams, Vern and Justin Roland. White got hits from VerHagen, Dao and Teddy Kreder.
Game three will be Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. The game can be heard live on 88.7-KTCU FM and on the World Wide Web at www.gofrogs.com. Coach Schlossnagle will be the color commentator along with the voice of the Horned Frogs, Chuck LaMendola. Shawn Ferguson (Purple) will face Sam Demel (White).
