L.I. Ducks Overcome Perfection in 10th Against Somerset Patriots

From the desk of:  THE WEBBED SPIKES NINE

We Interrupt this Perfect Game to Bring You This

FRIDAY

Ducks    1

Patriots  0

10 innings

Somerset Patriots starter Rick Teasley faces 27 Long Island batters and retires them all in order.  No runs, no hits, no walks, no errors; the man pitches a perfect game through nine full innings with seven strikeouts.  He throws 110 pitches with 75 going for strikes.  Problem is neither the Patriots nor the Ducks manage any runs within the game's first nine frames.  The scoreless deadlock necessitates extra innings which unfortunately tags Rick Teasley with a hard luck no decision.

Vladimir Frias is the obligatory runner at second base to begin the tenth.  Ezequiel Carrera successfully bunts Frias to second.  Center fielder D'Arby Myers then singles off Somerset's Tyler Cloyd plating Frias from third.  Ducks relievers Cody Mincey and Michael Tonkin close out the Patriots in the bottom half of the frame walking one and striking out three.  Mincey earns the victory for pitching 1.2 innings of scoreless ball with three strikeouts, and Tonkin earns his third save of the season.