Darkness was the only thing that could stop the Angels and
Marlins in Monday’s MHPB Bronco Division game.
Darkness was the only thing that could stop the Angels and Marlins in Monday’s MHPB Bronco Division game.
The teams combined for 22 runs on 20 hits, but the game ended in an 11-11 tie when darkness prevented the Marlins from batting in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The Marlins got the offense started when they jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Conor Havstad walked, Trenton Cisewski singled and Brenden Stocksick hit a two-run double. He eventually scored to take the three-run advantage.
The Angels got two runs back in the second on hit by Josh Araiza and Ben Nuno, but the Marlins stormed back with four of their own. Isaac Allen and Cisewski doubled in the rally.
The Marlins pushed the lead to 8-2 with a run in the third, but the Angels got back into the game with four in the fourth. Andrew Perez, Tommy Naranjo, Bryan Freitas and Justin Gerard all had hits.
Allen delivered for the Marlins again in the fifth with a two-run double. Perez also had an RBI hit as they took an 11-6 lead.
The Angels edged closer with a run in the sixth when Freitas drove in Brandon Foster and they tied it with a four-run seventh inning rally. Gerard, Nuno, Robbie Yamat and Perez all scored in the inning.
Athletics 8, White Sox 1
Three A’s pitchers combined to shut down the White Sox to earn the win.
Casey Dawes, Lorenzo Aguayo and Andrew Bueno combined to allow seven hits and strike out 12 batters in the seven-inning victory.
The White Sox got their lone run across in the first. WIth two outs, Mitchell Pasek doubled home Blake Porzio for a 1-0 lead.
But Bueno quickly tied the game, blasting a leadoff home run in the bottom of the first.
After thwarting a White Sox threat in the top of the second, the A’s took the lead in the bottom of the inning. Kral, who ended the Sox threat by catching a long fly ball, singled, took second on an error, stole third and came home on a sacrifice by Zack McKerrow.
The White Sox put two runners on in the third, but A’s pitcher Dawes struck out the final two batters to end the inning and the A’s then added to their advantage.
Bueno doubled and took third and home on passed balls. Mike Jarvis singled, stole second and third and scored on a wild pitch.
The A’s plated two more in the fifth. Aguayo tripled and scored on a Bueno single. Bueno stole second and third and scored on a sacrifice by Dawes. They finished it off with two more in the sixth. Matt Jarvis doubled and later scored and Kral singled and scored on White Sox errors.
Bueno finished the day 3-for-3 with two RBIs and three runs scored and also pitched two scoreless innings.
Yankees 6, Dodgers 5
In a very tight pitcher’s duel, it was big hits in extra innings that made the difference.
The Dodgers’ Aaron Armijo and the Yankees’ Jason Struzik each started and pitched into the fifth inning. They both allowed only one run until the fifth when walks and clutch hits lead to four runs for each team.
The Yankees had Tyler Pederson and Taylor Pullen draw walks and Christian Davies-White ended Armijo’s day with a two-run single. Nathaniel Batad advanced Davies-White and Struzik walked and both came around to score.
For the Dodgers, Dane Cleeton and Derek Rousseu walked, Struzik managed two strike outs before Joshua Priest walked and Ben Hartl’s fly to right was dropped and Aaron Armijo singled to plate four before Taylor Pullen came on in relief to get Kyle Kinsey to ground out to end the threat.
Defense then took over for both teams.
The Yankees managed only two base runners in the sixth and seventh innings, with one of them getting picked off. The Dodgers went in order in the sixth, when Sean Aitken singled but Cleeton grounded into a 6-3 double play.
In the seventh, Derek Rousseu led off for the Dodgers with a double. Nathaniel Batad relieved Pullen for the Yankees and struck out the side.
In the extra frame, Auston Rutledge tripled and Tyler Pederson’s two-out single brought him home with the winning run for the Yankees. Batad retired the Dodgers in order in the eighth with two strike outs to get the win.
