Game 37 - Two gems

Milwaukee at Wright State
March 20 at Nischwitz Stadium in Dayton, OH
espn3.com

This game lasted 1 hour, 44 minutes, which is the exact amount of time it took the Yankees and Redsox to complete the top of the 4th inning of a 2007 game.

Wright State junior Jesse Scholtens tossed a complete game, five-hitter for Wright State, which won 1-0 and moved to 4-0 in Horizon League play. The right-hander continued his phenomenal junior campaign, moving to 4-0 with an 0.89 ERA (four earned runs in 40 2/3 IP) in six starts. Milwaukee's Brian Keller was really good as well, tossing an eight-inning complete game to take the tough-luck loss.

Keller, who fell to 2-3 in five starts, has been great for the Panthers (1.84 ERA - seven earned runs in 34 1/3 IP). Someone had to win and thanks to Sean Murphy's run-scoring single in the second, it was Scholtens. But what a night on the mound for both pitchers, easily the best pitching duel we've since this site began about a month ago.

* I don't know who did the play-by-play for espn3.com and the Horizon League because the espn3 broadcast just began without any mention of who was calling the game. It's probably best that I didn't know who it was, but I'm going to call him Billy because he sounded like a Billy.

Phenomenal performance by Billy:

"A little droobler"
"It's a young season on the year"
"Here comes the sign from catcher, he shakes it off a little bit"
"Welcome back here to this baseball game"
"Hits a ground ball to first place"
"Once again, a first pitch swinging Panthers"
"Nick Unes, now swinging"
"It's gonna be a swing and a mount"
"Zero balls, one strike"
"He's given in two strike outs"
"Two outs in"
"Trying to get his team right back into the bench"
"First pitch of the bat"
"Looked to be a close there call"
"That's an unfortunate event"
"Looks like the catcher is OK here...we'll get right back into action"
[Cough] [Cough] [Cough] "sorry, I had something in my throat"
"Nice job by the catcher to get out of his stance and retrieve that ball"
"Looking for the sign from the coach"
"Looks to be a catcher, number Sean Murphy"
"Murphy will retrieve back to first place"
"The third baseman does a nice job of staying on his feet"
"Ahead in the count zero one"
"Saw the scouts down there with their radar guns.....got a little excited"
"He has now reached the century mark in pitches as he pitches one hundred"
"Tyler Hermann would be the last man chance"