GBL saves leader Todd Gelatka was called into the fray earlier than normal tonight, entering the game with two outs in the eighth inning and the Outlaws up 6-5. He had no trouble getting the third to preserve the one-run lead going into the ninth, which is when he unraveled amid the setting he has thrived in all year.
Despite receiving an insurance run from his team before heading back out with a 7-5 cushion, Gelatka with one out walked Victor Hall, gave up a hit to Juan Senreiso, watched both steal bases and then proceeded to give up a two-run single to Kane Simmons with two outs. And Gelatka couldn’t keep the game deadlocked, either, as Carlos Madrid punched a go-ahead single to elicit a roar from the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Outlaw right-hander when he was finally able to record the final out two batters later.
“I’m not the guy to talk to right now,” a visibly disappointed Gelatka, who is the Golden Baseball League leader in saves, said in the clubhouse afterward. “Someone else would probably be better.”
About Me: Patrick Kinmartin has been a sports writer at the Chico Enterprise-Record since graduating from the University of Southern California in 2005. He began covering the Outlaws and the Golden Baseball League upon arriving and took over the beat full-time in 2007.
A north Orange County native notoriously fond of his hometown Fullerton, Kinmartin also has an occupational obsession with European football, which he chronicles on the Web radio site 101 Soccer Live.
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