Rains kept the Muenster Midget AAA Red Sox’s schedule light this week, with rain wiping out their July 14 doubleheader against the North West Prairie Pirates in Lloydminster.
vs. Saskatoon Diamondbacks
Tyler McWillie, in his first game since returning from Okotoks Academy, led the way offensively for the Red Sox in an 8-2 win over the Saskatoon Diamondbacks on July 9 in Saskatoon.
McWillie finished the evening 3-for-4 at the plate with four runs batted in (RBI) and two runs scored.
The Watrous native also pitched a run free seventh inning giving up one hit and striking out two in relief of Red Sox starter Drew Bauml.
Bauml picked up the win on the mound for the Red Sox pitching six innings of two run ball, giving up five hits and five walks, striking out eight.
After the two teams wrapped up a scoreless first inning, the Red Sox grabbed their first lead of the game thanks to a run scoring double by Matthew McGrath in the second and a run scoring error off the bat of Chris Major in the fourth, giving the Red Sox a 2-0 lead through the top of inning four.
The Diamondbacks quickly cut into the Red Sox lead in the bottom of the fourth as Bauml gave up a walk and a home run to see the two teams deadlocked at two after four innings.
That homerun seemed to spark the Red Sox, who used a two-RBI double in the fifth from McWillie, and a run scoring single from Rylan Marianchuk, a run scoring double from Jayden Huls, and a two-run homerun by McWillie in the sixth inning to extend their lead to 8-2 after six.
Bauml and McWillie locked the game down over the final two innings as the pair gave up just two base runners to give the Red Sox the 8-2 win.
The win also improved the Red Sox’s record to 4-1 in their last five games.
Outlook
With the win the Red Sox improve their record to 11-13 on the season, good enough for fifth place in the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League Midget AAA standings, five games back of the fourth place Diamondbacks.
With rain wiping out their doubleheader, the Red Sox will see an extremely busy final week of regular season action with six games in four days, as they play doubleheaders July 18 in Lloydminster against the Prairie Pirates, July 19 in Saskatoon against the Diamondbacks in the early game and the Saskatoon Giants in the late game, and the Saskatoon Cubs at home on July 21.
