Meridians Baseball

But I guess we all don't wear pants...   We see both the starting pitcher and closer toe the hill sporting shorts in this one, but they also show us the best competition in the NKABL so far with their pitching and hitting.   Tyler earns his toughest Win of the year going all 7 innings and helping himself with a 2-out, 2-run triple in the 3rd.

McClung tries to get the scoring started in the first off of Derek Williams' shot through the middle, but is cut down at the plate.  We do get the tally started in the 2nd though with a 2-out double by Soto, BB by Ryan Williams and 2-run triple by RJ.

The flood gates open in the 3rd then as they come by way of the infield sprinklers which felt great at first, but then hosed down our dugout before they were turned off.   Everyone quickly decides to play through it though and we again find 2-outs to our liking.   Tyler's triple scores Moore (on base 3 times) and D. Williams (ditto) followed by a Soto single, 4 BBs and 2 HBPs to see the Meridians cross the plate 7 more times.

McClung is on base all 4 times, Soto with 3 hits and R. Wiiliams with 2 key, 2-out walks as both he and Soto score twice each.   Smooth 5-4-3 double play from RJ through Ryan and a great effort in center from Wood (Wooster) who almost comes up with a great, diving catch (I thought the ground couldn't cause a fumble...).

Soto, McClung and R. Williams each get a knock off of Derrik Moeves (mavis), released last March from the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and career strikeouts leader at NKU (259).   Moeves (fastball in the high 80s that you could hear from the dugout) strikes out 8 in his 3 innings of work, but yes - he was the other one wearing shorts...   Final: 9-6 and the Meridians move to 8-0 in the NKABL.