St. Clair strikes early, hands Brewers 1st loss of season
Staff photo by Travis Rosenau New Ulm Brewers starting pitcher Mitch Bockenstedt delivers a pitch during the Brewers’ non-league amateur baseball game with St. Clair at Johnson Park on Tuesday.
NEW ULM — St. Clair scored five runs in the top of the first inning and never looked back as the Wood Ducks downed the New Ulm Brewers 10-3 Tuesday night at Johnson Park in a non-league amateur baseball game.
Mitch Bockenstedt took the loss for the Brewers, who fell to 15-1 on the season.
He went seven innings and was charged with eight runs on 11 hits while striking out eight.
Alex Gratz got the win for St. Clair, going the distance. He allowed 11 hits and fanned four.
Ben Hopper, Gratz, Nick Schubert, Jaden Rollins and Danny McCabe each had two hits for the Wood Ducks.
Cole Ranweiler and Andrew Peters each had two hits for the Brewers, with Peters driving in two runs.
St. Clair used six hits and two New Ulm errors to push five runs across in the first inning.
The Brewers were guilty of five errors that led to five unearned runs in the game.
The Wood Ducks added two more runs in the third before the Brewers plated two runs in the bottom of the third.
J.T. Hoffmann singled and was followed by a base hit from Cole Ranweiler. They both later scored on a Peters single.
New Um cut the lead to 7-3 with a run in the on a Josh Seidl RBI single.
But the Brewers got no closer than that as St. Clair added single runs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings.
The Brewers also stranded 10 runners on base.
New Ulm, 8-0 in the Tomahawk East League, travel to Springfield Tuesday to meet the 7-0 in the TEL Tigers at 7:30 p.m. at Riverside Park.






