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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

March 10th Mustang Recap

The visiting Mustang Athletics jumped out to an early 9 – 0 lead, and cruised to a 12 – 7 win over the Rockies Monday afternoon.

TOP 1ST: The A’s made good use of their baserunners. Brock McDaniel, Hudson Harris, Daniel Mattison, Dillon Monson, and Taylor Brown all walked and scored. The Rockies third-baseman Joshua Brunson caught a popup at third base, but the A’s Jacob Maher capped off the inning with an RBI double to left-center. Centerfielder Jason Fuertes ran the ball down and fired to second to hold Jacob to a double.

BOTTOM 1ST: Stephen Ellis and Jason Fuertes both walked in the first , but pitcher Daniel Mattison was in control, striking out five in the first two innings…without allowing a hit or run.

TOP 2ND: Brant Plomaritis led off by walking, and scored on Connor Bollinger’s single to left. Rockies rightfielder Matthew Murphy got the ball in quickly to hold Connor to a single. Bollinger later scored, but pitcher Cooper Hines got a strikeout and two popouts to limit the A’s to just two runs in the inning. Tyler Hall and Drew Laiz caught the infield pops to record the outs.

TOP 3RD: Drew came on to pitch for the first time this season, and held the A’s to just two runs and no hits. He caught another high popup on the mound, and struck out the other two batters. The A’s Kyle Jones and Jacob Maher both walked and scored on wild pitches.

BOTTOM 3RD: Cameron Jones led off the inning with a swinging bunt hit. He advanced to second on a wild pitch and had a nice delayed steal of third. Phillip Hrisak’s two-out grounder to the right side drove Cameron home. The A’s Brock McDaniel held the Rockies to the one run by allowing no walks while striking out two, then fielding Stephen’s grounder for the third out.

TOP 4TH: Brock reached on an error and stole second. Hudson hit a grounder to short and beat the throw to first. Brock took off for third, and scored when the throw got away, allowing Hudson to take second. After Hudson stole home, second-baseman Tyler fielded a grounder and threw to Jason for the out. Daniel singled, but was stranded on third.

BOTTOM 4TH: Grace White lined the first pitch of the inning into right field for a single, and advanced to third on two passed balls. Jason and Cooper walked to load the bases. After one pitch Cooper distracted the pitcher, allowing Grace to score. Drew doubled to center, driving in both runners. Then Hudson, the A’s pitcher, settled down and struck out three of the last four batters he faced.

TOP 5TH: Kyle led off for the A’s with a pop single to left, barely out of the reach of Rockier leftfielder Murphy. He scored on Jacob’s infield single. Third-baseman Tyler made two nice stops at third, keeping runners at first and second. Rockies pitcher Phillip capped a strong outing by striking out two straight. He finished with five strikeouts in two innings, with no walks and only three runs allowed. Two-thirds of his pitches were strikes…an excellent Mustang pitching performance.

BOTTOM 5TH: With the sun setting, the Rockies had time for five batters. Tyler singled to get things going, and Kells Weatherby was hit by a pitch. Stephen’s grounder into right field scored both runners, then he scored on Grace’s double to center.

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