Pinto Division
Cardinals 13, Angels 11
David Robinson hit a home run in the third inning for the Cardinals. Garrison Buss, Michael Dukes and Nelson Pyle scored runs in the first inning. Parker Tamure and Ayden Stiezynski, scored in the fourth inning. Defensively for the Cardinals, Brandon Cressi fielded a grounder and stepped on second base for an out. Jimmy Hagan caught a fly ball at second base, and Nelson Pyle at first base made a great stretch to catch on a throw from the catcher in the fifth inning.
Indians vs. Reds
The Indians arms Jackson Gion, Kyle Quadros and Luke Schmidt were strong, while Brett Kirchick, Kevin Neilson and Curtis Theard each pitched well for the Reds.
Joey Davey lead off the game with a double into left field for the Reds and then turned a double play in the fourth inning. Indians batter Nathan Mooney roped a double and his teammate Nicholas Blocker brought some Indians home with two doubles. Good defensive plays were made by Indians outfielders Alex Aguaristi, Tyler Hill and Max Mosgrove; Garrett Taylor and Danial Ancheta of the Reds also played well.
Pony Division
Twins 8, A’s 7
In the first game of the season, the Twins bested the A’s. The Twins started the game scoring when Vince Hatakeyama singled and came around to score later in the inning. The A’s answered scoring two on a single by Andrew Chiri, a triple to deep right center by Ryan Evanger, and a double by Brett Silvetti.
Kevin Vye of the A’s shut down the Twins for the next three innings. He left the game after four complete innings giving up one run with six strikeouts. The A’s added a run in the second when Taylor O’Connell singled, stole a base and scored on Nicholas Carlson’s sacrifice. In the A’s fourth they added three more runs with walks to Kevin Sullivan and Chiri and some great base running by Evanger.
The Twins and the never-say-die attitude came into the top of the fifth down 6-1 and came out with the score tied. Great base running and walks to Jesse Ramirez, Joey DelRazo, Emiliano Mendez, Steven Davis and Joey Woodworth helped the Twins cause.
The A’s came right back in the bottom of the inning when Tim O’Rourke doubled to center and scored on Matthew Kelly’s single to take the lead 7-6. Evanger shut down the Twins in the sixth one, two, three. Woodworth returned the favor striking out the A’s three batters.
In the seventh inning down by one, the Twins battled back with a walk to Davis a couple of errors and great hustle by Derek Pastorino to score two runs and take the lead before Sullivan came in two shut them down in relief.
Woodworth struck out the first two batters in the bottom of the seventh, bringing his three-inning totals to eight. The A’s were not done yet. Brett Silvetti reached base with great hustle on an error.
Then he stole second and third to put the tying run on third. Matt Kelly, with two strikes on him, put a troubled grounder into play, but Hatakeyama with awareness made a great play to get Kelly by a step for the third out.
