RAINBOW BASEBALL
RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM
Hawaii baserunner Brandon Haislet was safe at second, beating the tag from Wisconsin-Milwaukee second baseman Jesse Hart.
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’Bows take 2, go for sweep today
UH rallies to win a pair of games it trailed, keeping Wisconsin-Milwaukee winless entering today's finale
You know that pickoff play everybody says never works? The one where the pitcher fakes to third, spins and then throws to first?
Well, it does succeed sometimes. Especially for Tyler Davis.
The Hawaii reliever has gotten out of jams with it three times this season, including the pivotal play of yesterday's second game of a doubleheader sweep of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
A gathering of 880 at Les Murakami Stadium saw UH win 10-3 and 5-3.
The Rainbows (18-8) have come from behind all three games of the series against the Panthers (0-12), who get one more chance today (1:05 p.m.) to leave the islands with their first win of the season.
It looked like they might do it in yesterday's second game, as they took a 3-2 lead in the fifth of a seven-inning game.
Davis, in relief of Josh Schneider, inherited a second-and-third, one-out situation with the score tied 2-2 in the fifth.
Nick Wichser reached on an infield single, the runners holding, to load the bases. Shawn Wozniak grounded into a force at second, with Jesse Hart scoring from third.
Then Davis got out of the inning by picking off Wozniak at first after making a move at Rob Brockel at third.
"That's a momentum killer, that's what that is," UWM coach Scott Doffek said. "The pressure's on the pitcher and we let him off the hook."
Davis said he perfected the move by emulating his summer ball teammate, Stanford pitcher Jeff Stimpson.
"He uses it every time and it works for him," Davis said. "A lot of guys don't really try that hard with it because they know it doesn't work that often."
The Rainbows then mounted a two-run rally to take a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the fifth, and added an insurance run in the sixth.
Brandon Haislet drove in all three late-inning runs, with a double over center fielder Ross McCoy's head in the fifth off starter and loser Mike Rauwerdink (0-4), and a bases-loaded walk in the sixth.
Haislet, normally UH's cleanup batter, was in the six hole for yesterday's second game, and coach Mike Trapasso said he'd considered holding him out.
"He hadn't been getting good swings for two or three weeks now, popping up too much and missing balls he should be crushing," Trapasso said. "I'm glad he came up with the big double."
Davis (3-0) and the Panthers made things exciting in the seventh. After two quick outs, UWM got three singles in a row to load the bases. That brought up Wozniak, who had hit a solo homer in the fourth off Schneider to give the Panthers a 2-1 lead.
This time, Davis came back from a 2-0 count to strike him out swinging and end the game.
"Obviously I wasn't trying to get the guys on base. I don't know, they were just hitting good pitches," Davis said.
UH pitching allowed 22 hits in 16 innings yesterday, including two homers. But Hawaii walked none of the 70 batters it faced (first-game starter Mark Rodrigues did hit UWM's Grant Berkovitz). The Rainbows have not allowed more than three runs in any of their 10 games this month.
In yesterday's first game, the Panthers got more runs and hits off Rodrigues in the first two innings (two and five) than Arizona did in seven (zero and three) against the Hawaii left-hander last week.
But after McCoy's double and Kyle Silver's triple staked the Panthers to a 2-0 lead in the second, the Rainbows fired back with four in the second on RBI singles by Landon Hernandez and Jon Hee and Derek DuPree's two-run double.
UH added four more in the fourth, with Justin Frash driving home two with a single and Kris Sanchez contributing an RBI single. UWM errors in both innings helped Hawaii.
"We have to shore up mental mistakes that we continue to make," Doffek said. "These games are a microcosm of our season. We're playing good teams and they're waiting for us to step on our own foot."
Rodrigues wasn't as masterful as he was against the Wildcats, but he settled down to allow just one more run on a solo homer by Brockel in the sixth. He went seven innings to improve to 6-1. Cam Wheeler finished up with two hitless innings.
Tim Hoy (0-1), the first of five UWM pitchers in the first game, lasted just two innings and absorbed the loss.
Hernandez went 3-for-3 with three runs and rested the second game. Haislet batted 4-for-8 with four RBIs in the doubleheader.
Hee -- UH's fifth different leadoff batter this year -- went 2-for-4 with two runs in his season debut from the top spot in the first game, and 0-for-3 with a run in the nightcap.
Silver went 4-for-4 for UWM in the first game, and Hart did the same in the second game.
Rainbows third baseman Frash and first baseman Sanchez, Hawaii's leading hitters this season, collided while going for a pop-up near the mound in the ninth inning of the first game.
Both went down, Sanchez hanging onto the ball and getting right up. Frash was down for a couple of minutes before shaking it off and returning to his position. He played all 16 innings yesterday.
"They both called for it at the same time. Justin's fine. He said he got the wind knocked out him more than anything," Trapasso said.
Hawaii 10, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 3
UWM |
AB |
R |
H |
BI |
Hawaii |
AB |
R |
H |
BI
|
Silver 3b |
4 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
Hee 2b |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0
|
Patzman ph |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
DuPree lf |
4 |
1 |
1 |
3
|
Hart 2b |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Frash 3b |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2
|
Berkovitz ss |
3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
Haislet cf |
5 |
0 |
2 |
1
|
Munson ss |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Sanchez 1b |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1
|
Wichser lf |
4 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Christensen ss |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0
|
Hetebrueg 1b |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Catricala dh |
4 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
Wozniak ph1b |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Hernandez c |
3 |
3 |
3 |
1
|
Vesling rf |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Franco rf |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0
|
Brockel dh |
4 |
2 |
2 |
1
|
Wegner c |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0
|
McCoy cf |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1
|
Totals |
37 |
3 |
10 |
3 |
Totals |
31 |
10 |
11 |
8 |
UWM |
|
|
|
020 |
001 |
000 |
-- |
3 |
10 |
2
|
Hawaii |
|
|
|
040 |
400 |
02x |
-- |
10 |
11 |
2 |
E--Berkovitz; Hetebrueg; DuPree; Hernandez. DP-- UWM 2, Hawaii 1. LOB--UWM 8, Hawaii 7. 2B--McCoy; DuPree. 3B--Silver. HR--Brockel. HBP--Berkovitz; Franco. SH--DuPree; Franco. SB--Haislet.
UWM |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO
|
Hoy (L, 0-1) |
2 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
0
|
Duffy |
3 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1
|
Herbert |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1
|
Holzheuter |
2/3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0
|
Brockel |
1/3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0
|
Hawaii |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO
|
Rodrigues (W, 6-1) |
7 |
10 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
1
|
Wheeler |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
HBP--by Duffy (Franco); by Rodrigues (Berkovitz).
Umpires--Ryan Arasato (plate); Dan Farnsworth(first); Mike Evans (third).
T--2:27.
Hawaii 5, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 3
UWM |
AB |
R |
H |
BI |
Hawaii |
AB |
R |
H |
BI
|
Silver 3b |
4 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
Hee 2b |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0
|
Hart 2b |
4 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
DuPree lf |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0
|
Brockel rf |
3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
Frash 3b |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0
|
Wichser lf |
4 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
Macdonald dh |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0
|
Wozniak 1b |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
Sanchez 1b |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1
|
Buchholz c |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Haislet cf |
3 |
0 |
2 |
3
|
Patzman dh |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Zimny rf |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0
|
McCoy cf |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Fujii c |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0
|
Munson ss |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Young ss |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0
|
Totals |
31 |
3 |
12 |
3 |
Totals |
24 |
5 |
8 |
4 |
UWM |
|
|
|
100 |
110 |
0 |
-- |
3 |
12 |
2
|
Hawaii |
|
|
|
100 |
121 |
x |
-- |
5 |
8 |
0 |
E--Silver; Brockel. LOB--UWM 8, Hawaii 11. 2B--Brockel; DuPree; Haislet; Zimny. HR--Wozniak. HBP--Hee; Fujii; Young. SH--Brocke; DuPree. CS--Sanchez.
UWM |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO
|
Rauwerdink (L, 0-4) |
5 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
2
|
Ferrell |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
0
|
Hawaii |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO
|
Schneider |
4 1/3 |
8 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
1
|
Davis (W, 3-0) |
2 2/3 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
WP--Rauwerdink. HBP--by Rauwerdink (Young); by Rauwerdink (Fujii); by Ferrell (Hee).
Umpires--Dan Farnsworth (plate); Ozzie Ortiz (first); Cary Izuka (third).
T--2:16. A-- 880.