Claude Tournament - Part 3

The Mustangs took on Bushland JV for a second time on Saturday, March 12. Austin Miller started on the mound for the Mustangs with Manny Monteiro behind the plate. The Mustangs had a three up, three down inning with all three batters hitting towards third base. Tyler Peden was a wall and threw all three batters out at first. Monteiro got the Mustangs going with a single past the short stop. Peden drew a walk. A double play got the Falcons two outs before a strike-out ended the inning. The Mustangs recorded another three up, three down inning. Outs came from two fly outs caught by Brady Baggett and Brandon Nichols, and a pop out caught by Seth Skarke. Tate Wilkerson reached on an error. Jeffrey Tyree put down a sacrifice bunt to move Wilkerson. Nichols drew a walk and then Brady Miller hit a single to right to score Wilkerson. Skarke hit a sacrifice grounder that scored Nichols. a strike-out ended the inning. The Mustangs got their first out courtesy of a put out from Peden to Skarke. An error allowed a batter to reach. A pop up was then caught by A. Miller for out number two. Another Mustang error allowed a batter reach and a run to score. A fly out caught by B. Miller retired the side. Peden started the bottom of third off with a single to left. A fly out got the Falcons their first out. A. Miller drew a base on balls and then Wilkerson hit a single to left to score Peden. Tyree reached the bases on a hit by pitch. Nichols hit into a fielder's choice that got Tyree out at second, but it did score A. Miller. A strike-out ended the inning. The top of the fourth started off with a put out from Peden to Skarke. A double got a runner on before a fielder's choice got a runner out at third. A single to right scored a run. Another batter reached on a hit by pitch. The third out came from a put out from Wilkerson to Skarke. Skarke got things started for the Mustangs with a single up the middle. Monteiro put a sacrifice bunt down to move Skarke. Peden reached on a hit by pitch, but the Mustangs couldn't get any runs in before a strike-out and a fly out ended the inning. The Mustangs got the first batter out on a fly out caught by B. Miller. A double allowed a batter to reach. Nichols recorded the second out catching a fly ball. A single allowed a run to score and then the Mustangs intentionally walked the batter to load the bases to get the force out. A single was hit to allow another run to score that was followed by an error that scored another run. A. Miller tagged the next batter out to retire the side. The Falcons made a pitching change to start the bottom of the fifth. Three strike-outs ended the inning. A. Miller followed with his own three, up, three down with three strike-outs. A put out in the bottom of the sixth got the first out. Skarke hit a single over second to reach the bases. A fly out to right got the second out of the inning. A fielder's choice hit by Peden led to Skarke being forced out at second to end the inning. Tyree caught a fly ball for the first out for the Mustangs. A walk got another batter on before a fielder's choice had a put out from Baggett to Skarke. A hit by pitch got another batter on before an error allowed two runs to score. Wilkerson then came in to pitch. A hit by pitch allowed the batter to get on the bases before a foul pop up caught by Monteiro retired the side. Baggett started the bottom of the seventh off with a single over second. A strikeout by the next batter was out one. Then the ump decided after it seems forever, that A. Miller stepped in front of the catcher not allowing him to make a throw down to second. Thus they called Baggett out as well. With two outs now, Wilkerson hit a single over the second baseman to try and put a rally together. However, a strikeout ended the game. The Mustangs lost 4-7. A. Miller had three strikeouts for the day. Leading the batters were Skarke going 2 for 3, followed by Wilkerson who went 2 for 4.