The Moo win their home opener and 2nd game of the season against the North Platte Plainsmen 14-11

Fremont, NE- The Moo take their 2nd victory of the season and their first one at home against the North Platte Plainsmen 14-11. The Moo snap the Plainsmen's 3-game winning streak and move to 2-1 on the season while the Plainsmen move to 4-3.
The Plainsmen started the scoring off in the top of the 1st with three runs to go up 3-0 before the Moo came back with 4 runs in the bottom of the 1st started by a single by INF Kanin Dodge in his debut for the Moo then a walk to Nico Azpilcueta and Hayden Lewis made it bases loaded. Nick Balch flew out on a sac fly to bring home the first Moo run in Dodge before the power-hitting Ian Graf launched his first home run of the night a 3-run shot to make it a 4-3 game.
The Moo and Plainsmen would exchange runs back and forth for the next couple of innings including Graf's 2nd HR of the night in the 3rd inning and a Bobby Brown 2-run shot in the 5th inning that hit the scoreboard before going into the bottom of the 6th inning with the game tied 7-7. The offensive outburst once again started with 3 straight walks to Dodge, Azpilcueta, and Lewis than a Balch RBI single to bring home Dodge. Graf then hit a monster grand slam home run over the Centerfield wall into the lumber yard across the street to put the Moo up 12-7.
The Plainsmen would fire back with 3 runs in the 7th and 1 in the 8th to get the game to 12-11 before Graf had his 4th hit of the night a double and was brought home 2 batters later on a Trey Nichols RBI double to make it a 13-11 ballgame which would be all that the Moo ultimately needed for the win.
Balch earned the win for the Moo going 1 inning and allowing 3 hits and 2 runs while striking out and walking 1 each while Brown earned the save going 2 innings allowing 1 run and hit and striking out 5. Will Coe took the loss for the Plainsmen going 3 innings allowing 4 hits and walks, and 6 runs while striking out 4.
Graf ended up going 4-5 with 3 HRs including the Grand Slam in the 6th with a double and Brown went 2-5 with 2 RBIs off of his 2-run shot in the 5th. The Moo play the Plainsmen again tomorrow night at Historic Moller Field at 7:05 PM CST and make sure to watch the video Livestream on our Youtube Channel "Fremont Moo Baseball" or for audio on Big Dog Country Radio 98.9 FM 1340 AM or FremontMoo.com.


