The Redlegs took a rough loss in their third game of the
season against the Wild Boars, falling by a final score
of 15 to 7.
Luke Campbell made his first start of his Redlegs career
and was hit with an undeserved loss, as the defense was
shaky behind him from the start, committing three errors
in the opening frame. Luke recovered well though, and he
kept the Redlegs in the game through 4 2/3 innings as he
allowed only 2 hits and struck out 8.
Despite the rocky start, the Boars were only able to
manage two unearned runs and the Redlegs cut the lead in
half in the 2nd and took the lead in the 3rd. In the
2nd, Nick Davis reached on a fielder’s choice and later
came around to score on a scorching one hopper off the
bat of James Robinson that was too hot for the Boars 3rd
baseman to handle. Mike Hartman then laced a two out two
run single in the 3rd to give the Redlegs a 3-2 lead.
Matt Redman added a little help for his starter in the
4th, making a full extension diving snag deep in the hole
at short and was able to get to his feet and fire a
bullet to first barely beating the baserunner.
The wheels fell off in the 5th. After Campbell left the
game with the bases loaded and 1 out in the 5th, the
Boars jumped all over the Redleg bullpen as they scored 7
times in the 5th and 4 more in the 6th.
Kyle Arend drove in a couple of runs with a double in the
bottom of the 5th, followed by an RBI single off the bat
of Joey Watson as the Redleg offense showed some life and
tried to fight their way back into the game.
The Redlegs got another nice play from their short stop,
this time Kyle Arend, in the 6th inning as he made a
diving catch on a line drive that looked certain to sail
into left field for a base hit.
Joey Watson entered the game in the 7th and held the
Boars offense at bay over the final three frames,
allowing only 1 earned while recording 3 punch-outs. But
the offense could only muster up one more run, another
RBI base hit by Watson, and eventually went down quietly
in their first loss of 2018. Matt Mattice extended his
career best 14 game hit streak in the loss.
Boxscore
| M Redman | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| M Mattice | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| K Arend | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| M Hartman | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J Watson | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| N Davis | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| B Howard | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J Robinson | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J Gross | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J Bradley | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| A Parks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Z Wang | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2B: Arend; Davis 2
| L Campbell (L) | 4.33 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
| Z Wang | 0.66 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| M Redman | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| J Watson | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |