The man who started the 2008 Frontier League All-Star Game for the East Division at Wuerfel Park will again wear a Beach Bums uniform in 2009...Ryan Gehring will take the field for his fourth season as a member of the squad, the only player to have been with the franchise in all four seasons of existence...
Gehring will extend Traverse City career records in most pitching categories during the 2009 campaign...He already owns the most wins (19), most starts (56), and many more...Gehring will be a veteran this season, the first veteran to be signed by the Beach Bums...Frontier League rules allow for no more than three veterans...
Gehring won just five games in 2008 but finished fourth in the league in ERA as one of the anchors on the top pitching staff in the Frontier League...He finished with a 5-9 mark to go along with a 2.71 ERA in a career best 126 innings stretched over 19 starts...He threw three complete games, all of which were shutouts to tie for the league lead...He led the team in innings, strikeouts, and tied for the lead in starts with 19, of which 12 went into the seventh inning and 13 of which saw him allow less than three runs...Four of his five wins came at Wuerfel Park where he has won 11 of his 19 Frontier League career decisions...
Gehring threw his first shutout of the season on June 13, blanking the defending champion Windy City ThunderBolts while allowing seven hits in a 9-0 decision...His next home start on June 23 against Chillicothe was also a complete game effort, limiting the Paints to just five hits while walking three and striking out four in a 5-0 win...His third shutout was in a very tough hitter's park at River City's T.R. Hughes Ballpark in his final first half start on July 9, striking out six and allowing seven hits in an 11-0 victory...Gehring fanned a season high eight at Kalamazoo on July 3...
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