Blunders Cost Abell

Jack Abell Baseball made blunders in nearly every faucet of the game on Tuesday, dropping a 6-2 decision to Uniform Village at Ort Field.

Abell had baserunners picked off of second, third, and a runner missed the plate at home to suppress their run scoring efforts. Additionally, Abell only gave up one earned run, but defense miscues hurt as much as their offensive woes.

Abell scored two runs in the first, courtesy of a couple of walks (Civic and Hawkins), stolen bases, and a long flyout by Nate Condor to drive in a run. Uniform Village scored one in the bottom of the first, to make it 2-1.

In the bottom of the second, defensive miscues caught up with Abell. Abell gave up a big error with two on and two out to allow UV to score two unearned runs and take the lead. In the third, Abell walked the bases loaded, when Josh Van Meter came in. Despite inducing three ground balls, Abell could only turn that into one out as two errors brought in 2 more unearned runs before Van Meter struck out the next two to get out off the inning.

Nate Condor lead off the fifth inning with a double off of the center field fence, but was stranded at third as Abell only mustered two hits all game (Broadway the other). Josh Van Meter drove a ball to deep right that was field by the UV right fielder.

Abell plays Wednesday and then faces a rematch with Uniform Village on Thursday.