Kevin Campbell took the hill on Sunday night for the Redlegs
and would turn in a solid performance that would earn him
his 5th win of the year and would inch him closer to the
Redleg single season strikeout mark set by Taylor Guntle in
2010 (48). Campbell now stands only 1 strikeout behind and
will surely break the record in his next outing. Campbell
would go 7 innings in this one, he struck out 4 and allowed
only 7 hits to a very good offensive club in the Mariners.
The Redlegs would fall behind as the Mariners drew first
blood in the 4th when Mike Hartman hit his first career
homerun to give the M’s a 3-0 lead. But the Redlegs
offense, after only managing 2 hits in the first 3 innings,
roared to life in the bottom of the 4th. When the dust
settled, the Redlegs racked up 7 hits, 3 walks, and 10 runs
in the frame. Jacob Robinson walked with no outs before
Brandon Howard singled and James Robinson walked to load the
bases. After a strikeout for the first out, Matt Morrison
continued his torrid hitting run by driving in a run with a
single. Mattice then singled in a couple of runs. Steve
Benthal later walked with 2 outs and the bases loaded to
drive in a run before Jacob Robinson drove 2 runs in with a
single. Brandon Howard and James Robinson also singled in
runs before the 3rd out was finally made.
The Mariners did make things interesting by scoring 4 times
in the 5th inning to make it a 10-7 game, but the Redlegs
pulled away again in the 5th and 6th. Jackson Millard
doubled home a run in the 5th to make it 11-7. Kevin
Campbell, who replaced an injured Jared Bradley an inning
earlier, drove 2 runs in with an RBI double to give himself
a little cushion on the mound.
Brad Clark pitched what would turn out to be the final
inning before the time limit ended the game early, he
allowed only 1 hit and had one strikeout.
Boxscore
| J Millard | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| K Arend | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J Robinson | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| B Howard | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| J Robinson | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| B Clark | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M Morrison | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| M Mattice | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| J Bradley | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| S Benthal | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| K Campbell | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
2B: Millard; Howard; Robinson; Campbell
| K Campbell (W) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| B Clark | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |