Meridians Baseball

After starting recruiting on Thursday, we finally find 9 at the yard for a double dip Saturday night.   We get 2 outs right away in the 1st, but are then gifted a few baserunners followed by a couple of knocks to hit through the order in the top of 1.   Fugate was very stingy all day and the only worry was how long he was sitting down in between innings as we follow-up a 5-run 1st with a 7-run 2nd.   Very sloppy play on their end turned this one into a laugher very quickly.   4 more in the 3rd, a quiet 4th, but then 8 more in the 5th.   We finish in 5 innings with a score of 24-1.

Fugate dominates again while working his slider on all counts along with old #1 and his curve (unfair).   4 runs each by Lewis, Cutter and Soto - 4 hits by Soto after switching to wood (along with Tedd Schaffer) after their 1st two at-bats, 3 hits by Lewis and multi-hit game for Ryan, Jack, Tedd, Tyler and RJ.

Game 2 was back to good baseball with a much-improved NKy Mavericks squad.   Fugate comes up big with 2 of of his 3, 2-out RBI knocks on the day to get our first runs in the nightcap.   Game 2 slated starter can't make it so the Schaffer cameo continues as he fills in nicely going the full 7 innings for the Win.   Fugate with 2 runs, 2 hits - Ryan, Jack and RJ (3 hits, 2 runs - great pick-up Ryan!) also have multi-hit Game 2's (Final 9-3).

Web gem to Weinewuth (borrowed fron the Hobbs' Yankees) on the bare-hand bunt pick-up and toss with Schaffer nabbing a comebacker and Lewis coming in hard for a few in center.   Soto catches all 12 innings (and then another 7 for the Hobbs game the next morning).