ASHWAUBENON, WI – The Wisconsin Woodchucks (33-21) continued their dominance against the Green Bay Booyah (23-31) with a 6-2 win at Capital Credit Union Park Tuesday.
A fifth-inning grand slam from shortstop Brock Watkins would prove decisive in a game where Pepperdine southpaws Shane Telfer and Tyler Murrah held the Booyah to two hits.
The Woodchucks took a 1-0 lead in the first inning after Clayton Mehlbauer was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
The score held until the top of the fifth. Harrison Long led off with a base-on-balls before Kevin Kilpatrick singled and Jacob Burke drew a walk to load the bases for Watkins.
The opposite-field grand slam was Watkins’ first homer as a Woodchuck and the team’s third bases-clearing blast of the series.
Long drove in Noah Fitzgerald with an RBI single one inning later to pad the lead to 6-0.
In his first start but team-high 16th appearance of the season, Telfer did not allow a hit until the bottom of the sixth inning. He struck out a season-high nine batters, walking two and allowing two runs. Telfer earned his fourth win, improving his record to 4-1 with four saves.
Murrah needed just 30 pitches to retire nine of ten batters in a three-inning save – his first of the season. He induced eight ground-ball outs and tallied a strikeout. Through 19-plus innings this season, Murrah’s ERA sits at a team-low 1.37.
The two hits allowed by Woodchuck pitchers were the fewest of the season thus far. The Woodchucks are now 9-0 against the Booyah with a plus-38 run differential.
Wisconsin remains in second place in both the second half (12-7, 0.5 games behind Fond du Lac) and overall standings (33-21, 1 game behind Fond du Lac.)
Up Next
The Woodchucks will have the day off tomorrow before hosting the Booyah in a double-header at Athletic Park beginning 5:05 p.m. Thursday. Each game will be seven innings in length.
Wisconsin Woodchucks 6 @ Green Bay Booyah 2
Game Date: Tuesday July 27th, 2021
| Final/9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodchucks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 1 | |
| Booyah | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
W: Telfer (4-1, 3.66 ERA) L: Cano (0-1, 7.50 ERA) SV: Murrah (1)
| Woodchucks | AB | R | H | RBI | YTD AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long, Harrison RF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .444 |
| Kilpatrick, Kevin CF | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .339 |
| – Schoenvogel, Jacob PR CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .189 |
| Reid, Stephen DH | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .391 |
| Burke, Jacob LF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .185 |
| Watkins, Brock SS | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .250 |
| Mehlbauer, Clayton 3B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .227 |
| Vincent, Colton 1B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .197 |
| Albrecht, Louie C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .196 |
| Fitzgerald, Noah 2B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .236 |
| 33 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| Booyah | AB | R | H | RBI | YTD AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan, Brendan 1B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .241 |
| Pearson, Dalton RF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .309 |
| Croes, Dayson SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .295 |
| Runnels, Jakob DH | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .233 |
| Garcia, Tristin 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .230 |
| Blair, Brett 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Berg, Jake C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .239 |
| Flowers, Elias LF | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .283 |
| Lewis, Nadir CF | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .219 |
| 29 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Wisconsin Woodchucks
HR: B. Watkins 1 (1);
RBI: C. Mehlbauer 1 (12); B. Watkins 4 (4); H. Long 1 (2);
HBP: C. Mehlbauer 1 (2); L. Albrecht 1 (1); B. Watkins 1 (1);
E: S. Telfer 1 (2);
Team LOB: 9;
Green Bay Booyah
RBI: D. Pearson 2 (21);
HBP: D. Croes 1 (2);
SB: N. Lewis 1 (13); D. Pearson 1 (12);
Team LOB: 3;
| Woodchucks | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | YTD ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telfer, Shane | 6.0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 3.66 |
| – Murrah, Tyler | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.37 |
| 9.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Booyah | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | YTD ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cano, Carl | 4.1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.50 |
| – Thielke, Jett | 2.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.72 |
| – Lee, Logan | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.22 |
| – Johnson, Mikade | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.45 |
| 9.0 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
Wisconsin Woodchucks
HB: S. Telfer 1 (3);
SO: S. Telfer 9 (37); T. Murrah 1 (21);
BB: S. Telfer 2 (21);
BF: S. Telfer 22 (139); T. Murrah 10 (81);
P-S: S. Telfer 95-61; T. Murrah 30-18;
Green Bay Booyah
WP: J. Thielke 1 (2);
HB: C. Cano 2 (2); M. Johnson 1 (1);
SO: C. Cano 2 (4); J. Thielke 1 (7); M. Johnson 1 (3);
BB: C. Cano 6 (8);
BF: C. Cano 23 (30); J. Thielke 10 (43); L. Lee 3 (211); M. Johnson 6 (19);
P-S: C. Cano 102-57; J. Thielke 31-22; L. Lee 6-4; M. Johnson 22-12;
Weather: Cloudy
Start time: 6:35 pm (Central)
Duration: 02:35:19
Attendance: 1466
Venue: Capital Credit Union Park
