The Redlegs had a slightly less nerve racking game in the
nightcap as they cruised to an 8-5 victory with little drama
near the end of the game. Matt Redman took the hill looking
to keep his record unblemished, which he did as he tossed
the complete game victory to improve to 3-0 on the year.
Redman allowed 4 earned and struck out 7 in 7 innings of
work.
The Slammers struck first when Eric Murphy drove Kevin
Ashworth in for the game’s first run but the Redlegs took
the lead right away in the bottom half. Jackson Millard was
hit by a pitch with one out, Arend then singled, and then
Howard drove Millard in with a double. Arend moved to third
and scored on a sacrifice fly by Brad Clark. The Slammers
would tie things up in the 3rd though as a run was able to
score on a passed ball.
The Redlegs would then put things out of reach, scoring 6
times over the 4th and 5th innings to go ahead 8-2. In the
4th, Brad Clark started things off with a 1 out double,
James Robinson then singled, followed by an RBI single from
Matt Morrison. Zach Carroll then delivered a timely double
to the gap in right center to score Robinson and Morrison.
The 5th inning started with a walk to Jacob Robinson, a
single from Jackson Millard, and later a 1 out single from
Brandon Howard to load the bases. Brad Clark then worked a
walk to bring a run in followed by a 2 run single from James
Robinson.
The Slammers didn’t go down without making any noise though.
They pushed an unearned run across in the 6th and Rick
Anderson smacked a 2 run home run in the 7th before Redman
was able to finish things off with a hard groundball to
Millard at 2nd who made a nifty head high snag on a bad
bounce to record the final out.
Boxscore
J Robinson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
J Millard | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
K Arend | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
B Howard | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
B Clark | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
J Robinson | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
M Morrison | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
M Mattice | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Z Carroll | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
J Bradley | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
K Campbell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2B: Millard; Howard; Clark; Carroll