April 30 2014 Lowell Recap

Today the Scots set out to Lowell to take on the Red Arrows in the first official game of the series (yesterday's game is postponed and will be resumed Friday). The two teams were tied for first place in the OK White and the winner would have at least a one game edge on everyone in the league. The Scots started off hot putting Trent Foreman and Mitch McCallum in scoring position in the top of the first and only one out yet they didn't not score. This was a recurring theme for the Scots as they left 12 guys in scoring position throughout the entire night. The pitching on both sides was tremendous tonight, the Scots had Sam Vanderwal throw 5 innings and only give up 3 runs (2 earned) and then in relief had Keegan Mulvey go 4+ innings giving up 1 earned run, which was the deciding one. However the entire loss is not saddled to Mulvey so nobody go and point fingers there. The Scots had  plentiful opportunities to end the game and just never capitalized on any. They had a runner on third with one out in the 9th and that runner was picked off. The Scots played almost flawless defense all day with just one minuscule throwing mistake that led to one of the Arrows runs. The Scots had two players record RBIs, Joe Stegehuis and Logan Hudson. Even though the ball barely landed on the wrong side of the left field fence and the Scots fell 4-3 tonight, they are only one game out of first and in a three way tie for second and, if they win this series by defeating Lowell on back to back days they will reclaim first place solely. The pursuit back to the top begins tomorrow at home against Lowell at 4:30 with Caleb Sleeman on the bump for the Scots. Come out and support the squad!