Saturday, May 24: Home at the West High School

Outlaws 4     Lower Nazareth 3

   Jake Hollweg struck out 8 and pitched into the 7th inning and Scott Price delivered a 3-out save in the 7th as the Outlaws hung on for a 4-3 victory against Lower Nazareth in their inaugural game of the 2008 season.

  Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the first, the Outlaws would score 2 runs to take a lead they would never give up.  With 1 out, Donnie Pietrafesa was hit by a pitch.  One batter later, he would score on a triple by Jake Hollweg.  Hollweg would put the Outlaws ahead by scoring on a wild ball. 

  In the 2nd, the Outlaws added onto their lead.  With 2 outs, Jon Mandile tripled and would score when Dylan Denninger reached base on an error by the third baseman to put the Outlaws up 3-1. 

  With 2 outs in the 5th and the score now 3-2, Denninger singled and stole second.  He scored on a Scott Price single to right to increase the Outlaws lead to 4-2. 

  With the Outlaws up 4-3 entering the 7th, Lower Nazareth put runners on the corners with none out thanks to an Outlaws error and a bloop single.  Hollweg was lifted in favor of Scott Price. 

  With the infield in, the next Lower Nazareth batter hit a hard groundball to Shortstop Robbie Loua who fielded the ball cleanly and alertly threw home to Catcher Joe Abuiso to cut down the runner trying to score from third for the first out of the inning. 

  Price struck out the next batter but with 2 outs, he walked the hitter to load the bases.  Price would strike out the last Lower Nazareth batter to secure the Outlaws victory.  

LN:  100 011 0 -- 3

PM: 210 010 x -- 4