Bucs pitcher Ryan McCally threw a two-hit shutout to defeat the Peninsula Oilers 2-0 Tuesday in Alaska Baseball League play in Anchorage.
The loss drops the Oilers to 6-8 in the ABL. With the Glacier Pilots' extra-inning victory over the Mat-Su Miners Tuesday, the Oilers are now four games out of first place and have lost two straight.
Peninsula is also three games out of a National Baseball Congress World Series berth.
The Oilers will look to get back on the winning track today when they travel to face the Miners. Mat-Su is currently 4-12 in the league and solidly holding down last place.
Peninsula could not get anything going against McCally Tuesday. McCally walked just one, struck out nine and had his defense play an errorless game behind him.
The two Oilers hits came from Chris Kolkhorst and Jerrod Brown.
Oilers starter and loser Jake Postlewait turned in a solid effort, but it didn't match McCally. Postlewait threw the first five innings and gave up five hits and one unearned run. He walked two and struck out one.
Oscar Serrato came on in relief of Postlewait and tossed three innings, giving up one hit and one unearned run. He walked two and struck out one.
Tuesday
BUCS 2, OILERS 0
Oilers AB R H BI Bucs AB R H BI
Kolkhorst lf 4 0 1 0 Dfndrfr 1b 4 0 1 0
Wahlbrink cf 4 0 0 0 Stnsbry ss 3 0 1 0
Schtznhfr 1b 3 0 0 0 Lundeen 3b 3 1 0 0
Brown dh 3 0 1 0 Harper 2b 3 0 0 0
Underwood rf 3 0 0 0 Zamojc rf 3 0 0 0
Cox 3b 3 0 0 0 Gimenez lf 2 1 0 0
Janish ss 2 0 0 0 McGehee dh 3 0 1 1
Richie c 2 0 0 0 Flynn c 3 0 1 0
Beale 2b 3 0 0 0 Trofholtz cf 3 0 2 0
Totals 27 0 2 0 Totals 27 2 6 1
Peninsula 000 000 000 --0
Anchorage 000 101 000 --2
E -- Janish. DP -- Peninsula 2, Bucs 7. 2B -- McGehee, Brown. SB -- Lundeen, Zamojc. SA -- Stansberry, Richie.
IP H R ER BB SO
Peninsula
Postlewait, L 5 5 1 0 2 1
Serrato 3 1 1 0 2 1
Anchorage
McCally, W 9 2 0 0 1 9
HBP -- by Serrato (Gimenez). PB -- Richie 2. BK -- Serrato. T -- 2:00. A -- 1,000.
Monday
GLACIER PILOTS 8, OILERS 5
Oilers AB R H BI Pilots AB R H BI
Wahlbrink cf 3 0 0 0 Caple cf 5 1 1 0
Griffin 2b 4 0 0 0 Ortega ss 5 1 2 0
Schtznhfr 1b 4 1 2 0 Pratt 1b 5 1 1 3
Brown dh 4 0 1 0 Bigley rf 4 1 2 1
Underwood rf 4 1 0 1 Hddlestn c 5 0 1 0
Janish ss 4 2 2 1 Blumenthl 3b 3 1 1 0
Cox 3b 4 1 1 0 Heether ph 1 0 0 1
Jones c 4 0 0 0 Dini dh 3 1 1 1
Graziano lf 3 0 1 3 Nicholson 2b 4 1 2 1
---- -- -- -- -- Anderson lf 2 0 2 1
---- -- -- -- -- Zech ph 1 1 0 0
Totals 34 5 7 5 Totals 38 8 13 8
Peninsula 000 014 000 --5
Anchorage 112 112 130 --8
E -- Huddleson, Blumenthal, Janish, Cox. LOB -- Pennisula 8, Anchorage 9. 2B -- Nicholson, Caple, Schutzenhofer 2, Graziano. HR -- Pratt, Dini, Bigley. SB -- Schutzenhofer, Janish, Underwood, Cox. SF -- Graziano.
IP H R ER BB SO
Oilers
Copeland 5 1-3 9 4 4 2 0
Clark 2 3 3 1 1 2
Schau, L 2-3 1 1 1 0 1
Glacier Pilots
Pawelk 5 2-3 6 5 3 1 3
Ashabraner, W 2 1-3 1 0 0 0 2
Lynch 1 0 0 0 2 0
HBP -- by Pawelk (Schutzenhofer, Brown). T -- 2:55. A -- 800.
