|
Tuesday |
Duncan Bantam AA
Red Sox |
 |
|
GAME SUMMARY
|
BallCharts.com/duncanbantamAs |
Attendance:
Duncan
BC
Canada
|
Date:
Sat, May 26/07, 12:00pm
|
Location:
Carnarvon
|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | R | H | E | |
| Duncan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 1 |
| Carnarvon | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| Game Notes: The Duncan Red Sox went into Carnarvon Stadium looking to revenge an 8-5 loss in the first meeting between these two teams earlier this year. Duncan got off to a great start scoring 3 runs in the top of the first inning on back to back doubles by Connor Steacy and Cody Elzinga followed by a walk to DJ Govenlock and finished off by Mike Beaveridge who drove in Zinger and Govey with a single. The Carnarvon Cannons responded in the bottom half by scoring 4 runs off of a walk, a pair of singles and a timely double to deep right field. Both clubs were held scoreless in the second but in the bottom of the third Carnarvon cashed in 3 more runs off of starter Elzinga with 4 singles, proving once again that they can hit quality pitching. In the top of the fourth it was the Red Sox turn to get on the sticks. Beaveridge led off with a single but reached second on some heads up base running when the shortstop mishandled the throw from the outfield. Beaveridge then stole 3rd base and scored when a pickoff attempt from the catcher went awry. Right fielder Dan Draper reached base on a walk, moved up to second when Beaveridge ran home and scored when Patrick Kay stretched a routine single into a double with some crafty base running. Steacy followed that up with a single to move Kay to third and scored on Elzinga’s RBI ground out to the shortstop. Duncan was unlucky not to score more runs that inning, with Sean Pellerin on second after a walk and a stolen base and Steacy on third with two out, DJ Govenlock hit probably the hardest hit ball of the game only to have it land in a Carnarvon glove in deep centre field. It was now time to turn the pitching duties over to Kay in the bottom of the fourth. Facing the heart of the Cannons line up the smooth right-hander proceeded to strike out the side, letting them know that the Red Sox meant business. Duncan threatened again in the fifth with the bases loaded and only one out, but were unable to score when the last two batters popped out to the third baseman. If Duncan is to make some noise in the playoffs they are going to have to learn how to execute with runners in scoring position. After watching the pitching performance of PK in the fourth and fifth and with Carnarvon’s lead now down to one run, they decided to bring in their big closer Nick Kearly to try and shutdown the Sox. It worked in the sixth as Duncan was unable to adjust to the fast ball of the tall right-hander. Kay stymied the Cannons again in the bottom half of the inning allowing a walk but struck out the other 3 batters. The top of the seventh would be the Red Sox last chance to salvage a win. Beaveridge leads off with a walk, the next batter flies out on the first pitch. Showing great patience at the plate Draper takes a couple of pitches allowing Beaveridge to steal second and third base to put the tying run 80 feet away. Draper then hits a ground ball tying the score and reaching first when the Cannons try to cut down the Beaver at home. Patrick Kay reaches first when hit by a pitch, both runners move up when Steacy’s ground ball forces the third baseman to throw to first. Queue up Arjun Rai, the Sox reliable third baseman, in a classic battle between hitter and pitcher Arjun attempts to give Duncan its first lead since their opening at-bats. Down in the count 0 and 2, Rai hangs on by fouling off the third pitch, Kearly challenges him with another fast ball but Rai shortens his swing and jumps on it hitting a bounding ball over the shortstops glove and drives in both base runners. The next batter grounds out to second base and it is now up to PK to work his magic. First up is the Cannons clean-up hitter who drives a fly ball to centre field where Chad Zorisky makes no mistake, Kay strikes out the next batter then faces Kearly who lines a single to right to give the Cannons some hope, but PK was not to be denied as he proceeds to strikeout the last batter to win his fourth game of the year. Kay finished the game with nine strikeouts and allowed only one hit in four inning of great pitching. | ||||||||||
Lineup Cards,
Dugout Charts,
Pitching Charts,
Free Team Pages,
Free League Pages
Powered by BallCharts.com - free team & league websites