A day in the sun! Team Echelbarger starting off strong! But the defense collapses in the 5th and the Phantoms go down to the lower bracket just like that.
The bats were alive in the 1st inning with Chris getting a double, Jordan drives him in with another double, Sean gets walked, Jordan steals home and Ryan drives in Sean with a single. In the 3rd inning we loaded the bases with no outs with Chris at bat, hits a line drive to the 3rd baseman who then tags Alex R at 3rd for a double play. Sean strikes out looking the end the top of the 3rd. The Phantoms get shut down for the rest of the game.
On defense, Chris gets a 6-3 with Reilly in the third, Alex R gets an 8-6 with Jordan and Jordan gets a 6-3 with Reilly in the 4th. Jordan gets another 6-3 with Reilly for the 2nd out of the fifth.
Our MVP was Sean going 3.2 innings pitching for us facing 15 batters, 25 strikes of 41 pitches, 4 strikeouts, 1 walk, 6 hits and 3 earned runs.
Chris pitched the finishing the 4th inning, going 1 inning facing 8 batters 15 strikes of 19 pitches with 1 strikeout, 1 walk, 5 hits and 3 earned runs. Jordan closed us out with 1 strikeout in 4 pitches.
What should have been an easy inning with the bottom half of Wilcox’s line up, they had 4 solid hits score 3 runs.
Final Score: Echelbarger 3 – Wilcox 6
