RHWS Results Wednesday 11/12

We lost to the DC National Spirit, 13-7, on Wednesday. Neither team played very well.  We couldn’t shut them down when we needed to, and that ended up being the difference in the game.

Rich Hinkle struggled through the first inning, giving up three walks and two hits, but limiting the damage to 2 runs. We again started slow on offense, managing on one base runner in the first two innings.

In the bottom of the third, Mike Tarens drew a walk to lead off. Tom Feasby singled with one out. Hiro Tarumi singled with two outs to load the bases. Phil Montes singled to drive in our first run. Then Angelo Crudale hit a solid line drive right at the left fielder.

Mike Sasso relieved Rich in the third inning and put up three scoreless innings.

DC got to Sasso in the top of the sixth for a couple of runs. Denny Brown came in and threw gas on the fire. When the dust cleared, the Spirit had added 6 runs to pull ahead 8-1.

Hiro led off the bottom of the inning with a base hit to get us going. Phil drew a walk and Angelo was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Bob Levine drew an RBI walk. Robin South matched that with another one. Denny popped a bloop single and we  had three runs back. Zach Jones was safe on an infield error. Rich Hinkle topped one down the third base line for a hit. Mike Tarens was safe on another infield error. That made the score 8-7, and we had the bases loaded and still no outs. Julian Blea then hit a shot up the middle. The baseball gods unkindly turned that into a pitcher to third double play when the pitcher was able to snag Julian’s line drive.

In the top of the 7th, three base hits and two costly errors extended the DC lead to 11-7.

We got two hits in the bottom of the seventh, but lost both to base-running errors.

DC added two more in the 8th to push their lead up to 13-7. We went quietly in the 8th and 9th, managing only one hit.