Cal/EK Summary

The Caledonia Fighting Scots sitting at 12-8 had a non conference road trip to fellow M-6 rival East Kentwood in a single game makeup from a rainout in April. The Scots were sending lefty Nick Tuori to the hill to try and pick up his second W of the season. Before the game, fellow lefty Sam Vanderwal told Tuori that "a gem is giving up 2 runs over 5 innings". Well exceed a gem he did, Tuori threw a complete game scattering 12 hits yet only allowing 2 runs (1 earned) and struck out 6 in the process. One major contribution to Tuori's success on the bump was the incredible defense shown by his infield the entire day. The lead off hitter (much to Tuori's discretion) went 4/4 and had his number all day long. The second hitter however fell victim as the infield characters of Austin Coon, Keegan Mulvey, Trent Foreman and Ben Hamp all turned glorious double plays to retire both of these men each time. While the defense was quite stellar, it was the offensive run support that did the trick. EK started some guy who was a righty and threw dead slow fastballs that made some former teammates look like Justin Verlander. The Scots jumped on him all day and there was far too many amazing performances to name each individual so here's some highlights. Nate Pinder had a spectacular bunt to start a 4 run rally for the Scots which included a s spectacular bunt by Tuori (yet again) which would go down as hit number 1 on the season (it's about time). In a peculiar moment Paas was at second and Vandy at third and Paas was about to overrun Vanderwal and then on the throw back to second , it went into center field and each guy moved up a base. The Scots gave Tuori 11 runs and he did the rest finishing off the EK Falcons on a grounder to Ben Hamp at second. Shoutout to the entire squad for picking me up in various ways today appreciate it. The Scots play at EGR in their final conference game tommorow. On the bump (assuming he can throw) is Keegan Mulvey who has appeared dominant throughout the year and hopefully can continue it tomorrow so the Scots get the sweep.