Call it the Butler BlueSox blues.

For the first time this season, the Prospect League club is in a funk.

Butler’s suddenly struggling offense managed just one run and the BlueSox dropped their fourth straight game — all at Pullman Park — 3-1 to West Virginia Friday night.

“Our bats are very, very anemic right now,” said Butler manager Anthony Rebyanski. “We’re just not getting hits when we need them.”

Butler (9-6) got eight of them against West Virginia (7-6), but only multiple hits in two innings.

In the bottom of the fourth, George Roberts singled and with two outs tried to score from first on a double into the right-centerfield gap by Matt Albaugh, but was gunned down at the plate.

In the bottom of the ninth, Kyle Petty reached on an infield single, moved to second when Roberts was grazed by a pitch and scored on a sharp single by Albaugh.

That, though, was the extent of the Butler offense, which scored just 10 runs in the four-game homestand at Pullman Park.

“We have to have a short memory,” Rebyanski said. “(This weekend) we get a little different playing atmosphere in Richmond. We just have to come out and play a little better, come out with a little more enthusiasm.”

Things were shaky for Butler from the start.

Starting pitcher L.J. Newman walked the first three batters he faced and threw just two of his first 12 pitches for strikes.

He did manage to get out of the inning with only one run scoring on a fielder’s choice groundout by Alex De La Rosa.

But Newman’s night was done after just one inning.

“L.J. just didn’t have it for whatever reason,” Rebyanski said. “He was shaking his arm and I hope he is OK.”

In a pinch, Rebyanski turned to Jon Danielczyk, who was the Butler catcher a night earlier against the Miners.

Danielczyk gave up just three hits in five scoreless innings.

“You don’t plan on going in in the second inning,” Danielczyk said. “But the team needed me. My mindset was to just go in there and attack the hitters. Attack. Attack. Attack. And throw strikes.”

His effort kept Butler in the game.

West Virginia, though, tacked on two more runs off reliever Adam Dian in the top of the ninth.

Dian uncharacteristically walked two batters in the inning as BlueSox hurlers had 10 base on balls in the game.

Despite the recent struggles, Danielczyk said no one is ready to break the glass over the panic button just yet.

“We’ll be OK,” he said. “This is the first time we have really struggled this season, let alone at home. I’m not worried. We have good hitters, even though we’re a little cold right now, and good pitching.”

Notes: Butler’s Elliott Caldwell, who is five hits shy of the Prospect League record for hits in a season, went 0-for-4. ... West Virginia No. 3 hitter Clayton Prestridge walked in his first four plate appearances before lining a two-run single in the top of the ninth.

West Virginia 100 000 002 — 3 5 1

Butler 000 000 001 — 1 8 2

W: Joe Candelmo 7.1IP (7K, 0BB). L: L.J Newman Jr. 1IP (0K, 3BB).

West Virginia (7-6): Bradley Strong 1B, Clayton Prestridge 1B 2-RBI 4-BB, Alex De La Rosa RBI, Luke Meeteer 2-1B, John Spirk 1B

Butler (9-6): Brendan Costantino 1B, Kyle Petty 1B, George Roberts 2-1B, Eric Hess 2B, Matt Albaugh 2B 1B RBI, Gavin Meyer 1B

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