After a two week layoff due to league wide
rain outs last
weekend, the Redlegs got back in action on
Sunday against
the upstart Wild Boars Baseball Club. The
time off
didn’t seem to effect the Camden club as
they cruised to
an 11-4 victory for their first 2-0 start
in franchise
history.
Pitching was the big story for the
Redlegs. A
combination of Andy Evans, Matt Redman,
and Brad Clark
resulted in 18 strike outs and 4 runs (3
earned) on the
day. Evans made his first start of the
2015 campaign and
started missing bats right away. He
racked up 9
strikeouts through the first 3 innings,
but plunked 4
batters in the process which resulted in
an early exit
and brought Redman in from the bullpen in
the 4th.
In the bottom of the 1st inning, Jackson
Millard drew a 1
out walk, Jacob Robinson was hit by a
pitch, and Brandon
Howard walked to load the bases. After a
strikeout, Kyle
Arend unloaded the bases with a 2 out
triple to give the
Redlegs an early 3-0 lead.
The Boars were able to tie it in the top
of the 4th.
Redman Relieved Evans with 2 outs and the
bases loaded
and the Boars were able to sneak two hits
through the
infield to plate 3 runs and tie the game.
Redman would
settle in to allow only 1 hit as he struck
out 7 over the
next 4 innings.
The Redleg offense meanwhile would take a
permanent lead
in the bottom of the 4th when they scored
4 runs to make
it a 7-3 game. Brad Clark doubled to
start the inning,
Kyle Arend walked before Matt Mattice got
his first of
two hits to drive in Clark. Later with
runners on 2nd
and 3rd and one out, Jared Bradley did his
job by hitting
a ground ball to the right side to plate
the innings 2nd
run. Matt Morrison would later drive a
run in with a
single and the Redlegs would pick up an
extra run on a
Boars throwing error. Morrison drove in
another run in
the 6th inning to increase the lead to 5
before the
Redlegs put the nail in the coffin when
they scored 3
more in the 7th. Howard reached on an
error to start the
inning, Clark walked, and Arend brought
both home on a
double increasing his RBI total to 5 on
the day. Arend
eventually made it to 3rd with one out and
Mattice got in
on some fundamental baseball by hitting a
ground ball to
the right side to score the run. Brad
Clark entered the
game on the mound in the 9th and tossed a
scoreless frame
despite two Redleg miscues to end the game
with a final
score of 11-4.
The Redlegs will get a tough test next
weekend as they
take on the Fairborn Athletics at 4:00 in
Monroe. The
A’s ended the Redlegs season in 2014 with
a 2 game sweep
in the semi-finals of the MVABL playoffs.
Boxscore
| M Morrison | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J Millard | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| J Robinson | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| B Howard | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| B Clark | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| K Arend | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| M Hartman | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M Mattice | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| J Bradley | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| M Redman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| K Campbell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2B: Clark; Arend
3B: Arend
| A Evans | 3.67 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
| M Redman (W) | 4.33 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| B Clark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |