Heyer Dominates as Southern Illinois Wins Sixth Straight
Source: Frontier League News
Traverse City, MI (July 3, 2018) – The Southern Illinois Miners got an outstanding pitching performance on the mound from Kurt Heyer on Tuesday night in their series opener against the Traverse City Beach Bums, as the right-hander set a career-best with eight innings pitched and tied a career-high eight strikeouts in a 3-1 victory at Wuerfel Park to elevate the Miners to their sixth win in a row. Southern Illinois took the lead for good in the first inning. With two outs against Beach Bums ace Jordan Desguin (5-2), Nolan Earley reached base with a single, setting up Chance Shepard, who hit a two-run homer to the opposite field in right-center, his team-high 14th of the season, to put the Miners up 2-0. Heyer (4-3) took it from there as a pitcher’s duel ensued, retiring the first seven batters he faced and eight of the first nine before Orlando Rivera’s two-out, third-inning single put the Beach Bums on the board at 2-1. Neither team scored from there until the top of the eighth inning, with Desguin and Heyer keeping the opposition off balance. But in the frame, Austin Homan singled and Romeo Cortina walked to set up Earley, whose…
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