Midlothian Photos (May 31st)

The following photos were captured by Kim Lewis during the road game versus Midlothian on Saturday, May 31st:

Matthias Dietz was the Warriors' starting pitcher. He struggled a little with a deep hole in front of the pitching rubber on the mound in the first inning, but made some adjustments to pitch an effective second inning...After working with Hitting Coach Doug Pringle on Friday night, Ryan Tannebaum brought a new and improved stance, a quicker swing and a lighter bat to Midlothian... Matt Taylor pitched the fourth inning for the Warriors. He did not get much support as the defense was battling the sun during the middle innings of this one...Ronny Drabeck hit a line drive over the leftfield wall for the Warriors' second homerun of the season. After seeing a steady diet of curve balls over the past three or four games, he is now keeping his hands back and driving the off-speed pitch...

Dan Victoria banged out three hits in this game in Midlothian...Sam Marc continued to fuel the Warriors' offense in this 16-11 slugfest...

Danny Poulos is swinging the bat more effectively in each game and has started to climb up in the Warriors' batting order... Grant Lewis halted the Midlothian comeback and threw two strong innings of relief for the Warriors, striking out another five hitters... Midlothian battled back from a huge deficit, but the Warriors held on to win the game by a score of 16-11. Since the park had no lights, the game was called due to darkness at the end of six innings of play (the inning 7 on the scoreboard is wrong)...
Ann Bresingham also submitted the following photos from this event:

Two of the "Big Three", Matthias Dietz and Mike Rafferty, made up the opening battery for the Warriors...
Matthias Dietz slammed an extra base hit in the first inning to start a big rally for the Warriors...
The Warriors placed pressure on Midlothian's defense with aggressive baserunning throughout the game. Ronny Drabeck advanced to score on this play...
Ryan Tannebaum used his great speed to beat this play at first base..."The Brain Trust" of Gary Dietz, Matt Rafferty and Rich Tannebaum analyzed the action...
Matthias Dietz stretched a hit into extra bases...
Dan Victoria reached third base safely on this steal play... The Warriors celebrated Ronny Drabeck's shot over the leftfield wall...