The Calgary Vipers were blanked for the second time this season 9-0 at the hands of the Joliet JackHammers at Foothills Stadium in Calgary, Alberta. Joliet put six runs up in the first two innings and never looked back with three pitchers combining for the shutout on eight hits against.

 

In the top of the first Cory Harris doubled to left and after the second out was retired, Juan Diaz, Derek Nicholson, and Tim Hutting all had runs batted in to take the early 3-0 lead.

 

The JackHammers doubled their lead an inning later thanks in large part to a misjudged fly ball by Jorge Tang. Javier Lopez led off the inning popping up into shallow center field but Tang was unable to make the catch and Lopez ended up with a triple and scored on a Chris Brown RBI groundout. With two outs Joliet rallied again as Harris singled and Chad Ehrnsberger hammered a 3-0 fastball over the left field wall to make the score 6-0.

 

One run was added in the fifth against Calgary starter Jeff Groeger as Nicholson doubled home Ehrnsberger pushing the lead to seven.

 

The scoring was capped in the sixth off Vipers reliever Ryan Klatt as Brown was hit by a pitch and Anthony Monegan doubled. Harris followed with a sacrifice fly and Ehrnsberger again doubled to bring home the ninth run.

 

Nick Renault tossed seven innings of five hit shutout baseball for the win, while Kyle Zaleski and Aaron Williams pitched the final two innings to complete the game.

 

Ehrnsberger and Nicholson both had four hits a piece and combined to score three runs and knock in five.

 

Calgary's Darryl Brinkley extended his hitting streak to nine games with a ninth inning single.