Missoula Hang Crooked Numbers in Back to Back Games
Idaho Falls—The Chukars (18-26) and Missoula PaddleHeads (34-10) met for the second game of a shortened 3 game set at Melaleuca Field in front of nearly 2,000 Chukars faithful. Like on Tuesday night the first half champs from Montana hung crooked numbers from start to finish as they strolled to a 25-10 win.
July 11, 2024
Missoula Hang Crooked Numbers
in Back to Back Games
Wednesday July 11th
Idaho Falls—The Chukars (18-26) and Missoula PaddleHeads
(34-10) met for the second game of a shortened 3 game set at Melaleuca
Field in front of nearly 2,000 Chukars faithful. Like on Tuesday night the
first half champs from Montana hung crooked numbers from start to
finish as they strolled to a 25-10 win.
Chuks starter BrianWilliams went four innings on the hill, surrendering
10 hits and 11 earned runs while walking 3 and striking out 2. BWill took
the loss and saw his record fall to 3-4.
After 3 innings the PaddleHeads owned an 8-2 lead as by night’s end
Missoula scored in every inning aside from the 1st and the 8th innings…
both those innings were 1-2-3 frames.
The Chukars enjoyed their best offensive spell of the night in the seventh
and eighth innings when they pushed across seven runs to make it a
seven run game going into the ninth inning. Offensively Trevor Rogers
shined as he finished his night 4-6 at the plate with an RBI and Theo
Hardy extended his hit streak to 17 games this year.
With Catcher Craig Corliss on the mound in the top of the ninth for the
Chukars Missoula splashed out 8 runs as the cruised across the finish
line at a 25-10 win to secure the series victory.
The Chukars will look the salvage the series on Thursday night at
Melaleuca Field with Casey Minchey expected to get the starting nod for
Idaho Falls.