The Redlegs made it 3 straight wins in a victory against the
Beavercreek Orioles on Wednesday 6/15 under the lights at
Rotary Park in Beavercreek.
Camden started hot, scoring three times in the top of the
1st inning. Jesse Jones reached on an error to start the
game and was later driven in by Mike Hartman. After a
single by Joey Watson, both Tyler Eaton and Cody Saraco-
Polner delivered back-to-back RBI walks to finish off the
inning with a 3-0 lead.
After the Orioles responded with a run in the bottom of the
1st, Camden got right back to work in the top of the 2nd.
Lucas Smith started the inning off with a single but was
erased after Jones reached on a fielder’s choice. Jones
swiped 2nd before Marshall Eippert was hit by a pitch, and
then Mike Hartman again drove in Jones on a single. Joey
Watson then doubled in two more runs to push the Redleg
advantage to 6-1.
The Orioles chipped back at the lead in the bottom of the
2nd, scoring again to cut the lead to 6-2. After that
however, Redlegs starter Tyler Eaton allowed only two more
baserunners over the duration of the game as he piled up 6
strikeouts along the way. Eaton earned his first victory of
the 2022 season in the shortened complete game effort.
Not that they would need it with Eaton dialed in on the
mound, but the Redlegs poured in the runs in the top of the
5th, scoring 7 more times to take a 13-2 advantage. Cody
Saraco-Polner walked to start the inning and James Robinson
was granted first on a catcher’s interference call. Two
straight strikeouts then seemed to have put any run scoring
opportunity on ice, but the Redlegs would send 7 straight
batters to the plate with two outs. Jesse Jones singled,
followed by a walk to Eippert, followed by a two-run single
by Mike Hartman. Joey Watson then added a two-run triple
leaving him a home run short of the cycle. Eric Jameson was
then hit by a pitch before Tyler Eaton helped himself out
with a two-run single of his own.
The win moves Camden to 4-6 with a matchup with the 2nd
place Wild Boars on tap for Sunday 6/19.
Boxscore
| J Jones | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| M Eippert | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| M Hartman | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| J Watson | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| E Jameson | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| T Eaton | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| C Saraco-Polner | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| J Robinson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| M Mattice | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L Smith | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2B: Watson; Jameson
3B: Watson