April 17 Jenison Recap

Following last nights tough defeat at the hands of the Jenison Wildcats, the Scots came out to their home diamond with vengeance and the idea of tying the series at one game a piece. The Scots sent Sam Vanderwal to the hill for his first varsity action and the nerves were evident early as the first two guys reached on a walk and being hit by a pitch. After that however, Vanderwal settled in nicely and gave the Scots 3.1 quality innings of work. The Scots were trailing 3-0 early when Chris Clark drove in the first run of the season, bringing in Logan Hudson via sac fly. The Wildcats immediately responded with another run however to make it 4-1. From that point on, the Scots offense finally clicked and reached its apparent full potential. Joe Stegehuis had a beautiful extra base knock early in the inning and it took off from there. The Scots sent 10 men to the plate in the 5th and scored 5 runs. RBIs were credited to Logan Hudson with two, Mitch Horgan with one and Austin Coon with one. With a 6-4 lead headed into the top of the 7th the Scots sent Keegan Mulvey out for his 3rd inning of work yet despite the beautiful and nearly perfect first 2.2, the 7th was quite the ride. A couple walks and a single quickly loaded the bases with nobody out and the Scots made the turn to the pen bringing in Caleb Sleeman, tomorrow's projected starter. Sleeman came in and slammed the door shut requiring only 7 pitches to get three outs thanks to one of the weirdest double plays I've ever seen. On a groundball to 3rd, Mulvey fired it home to Clark for out number one. Clark immediately fired to to Mitch Horgan at first for out two. The weird part was the kid who hit the ball immediately quit running and so he was no more than 25 feet out of the box when he got thrown out despite there being a prior throw. Anyway, Sleeman struck out the last guy to record the Save and earn the Scots their first win of 2014 by a score of 6-4. Earning the win for the Scots was Keegan Mulvey who improves to 1-0. A huge shoutout to all of the fans in attendance, we love the big support, hopefully y'all keep showing up and we keep winning for you. The rubber match of the series is set for tomorrow at 4:30 back in Jenison with Caleb Sleeman slated to throw for the Scots.