Defeats GK Realty, 8-4
Miscues, HRs help Mill Run MILL RUN – Mill Run took advantage of five errors and clubbed two home runs to inch closer to the .500 mark in Fayette County Baseball League play, defeating visiting GK Realty, 8-4, Thursday evening. Mill Run (4-5-1) got solo shots from Jim Warrick and David Sumner, who finished three hits. Bill Bendis picked up the win with relief help from Bobby Fulton, who had two hits. Andrew Spargur also had two hits for Mill Run.
Mike Newhouse led GK Realty (6-4) with three hits, and also scored a run. Aaron Dorogi and Dave Gaisbauer had two hits each for GK Realty.
“It was a total team effort and a short-handed win because we were short of personnel,” Mill Run’s Ray Orndorff said. “Bill gave us five strong innings and Bobby pitched well in relief. We had a few errors that didn’t hurt us and had a couple of multiple-hit innings. We were able to hold them down to get the win.”
GK Realty took a 1-0 lead in the first. Nick Erminio was safe on a fielder’s choice and stole second. He came around to score on a base hit by Dorogi.
Mill Run came back with three in the bottom half of the inning. Spargur was safe on an error. Fulton singled with Spargur moving to third, drawing a throw. On the throw Fulton went to second. Kris Firestone singled to drive in Spargur who beat the throw to the plate. Firestone moved to second. On the throw to second, Fulton scored from third. Firestone later scored on a two-out infield error.
GK Realty got a run back in the top of the second. Gaisbauer doubled to left to lead off. The ball was kicked around the outfield allowing Gaisbauer to score.
“We pride ourselves on playing great defense, but tonight we probably had more errors than we had all season,” GK Realty’s Steve Kezmarsky said. “I thought Cory Borland gave us an outstanding effort on the mound, but we played no defense behind him tonight. We’ll just shake this off and come back against Bud Murphy’s on Sunday.”
Mill Run added three more in the third. Warrick led off the inning with a homer. Sumner singled and stole second. Dax Fiore was safe on a fielder’s choice. Both came around to score giving Mill Run a 6-2 lead.
GK Realty made it 6-3 in the top of the fifth. Newhouse doubled and scored on a single from Gio Schiano. Mill Run got that run back in the bottom half of the inning. Nick LoNigro was safe on an error and stole second. He scored on Spargur’s single making the score 7-3.
Mill Run added some insurance in the bottom of the sixth on Sumner’s homer to left. GK Realty picked up their final run in the top of the seventh when Erminio was hit by a pitch and eventually scored on a ground ball by Dorogi.