Quinn and Riley Shut Down Bandits

MBC played great on Monday night under the lights beating the Bandits 10-2. The game featured MBC's third contest against the pitcher they nick named "the Beast" as 13 year olds. He was a fierce as ever on the mound, but too much pitching over two years had taken its toll on his arm and he could only go two innings.

Meanwhile, Quinn Burcham was un-hittable last night, really. The Bandits had just one hit, a muffed bunt. This no-hitter flirtation was hard to notice. Quinn was so un-hittable that he walked or beaned 7 hitters in his three innings, but good defense and throwing strikes when needed kept the Bandits at bay.

Riley Duffy started out un-hittable as well throwing to both sides of the body to the first few batters he faced, but settled in nicely and threw three innings of no hit relief walking only one.

Our rusty/dusty unused gloves were finally produced last night. Two great catches in the outfield by Nick Salle and Stuart Fairchild. Nick raced deep into the darkness to run down a would be extra base hit, and Stuart made a wonderful recovery on a ball he could not pick up early to race back and stymie a Bandit rally. The play of the night belonged to Nick Reeves who back handed a sharp shot waaaay up the middle and threw immediately to a stretching Ethan Clements with a pirouette throw.

MBC started quickly against the fireball throwing Beast. Walks to Keenan Heller and Spencer Hogger set the stage for Stuart "Mr. Reliable" Fairchild's RBI single. Spencer then scored from third on Ethan's tough ground out.

Keenan stroked a two out single in the second to get things going. After a walk to Spencer, Tino Peleti clutched up with a two out single up the middle to score Keenan and chase the Beast from the game.

The hard throwing Beast was replaced by a dazzling knuckle ball pitcher that baffled the MBC hitters until Nick Salle launched an 0-2 knuckle ball into the trees in right for a big home run. Keenan followed with his second hit of the night and scored on Quinn's single.

MBC played add on in the fifth when Adam Hinthorne singled and scored on Nick Salle's second hit of the night.

In the sixth, MBC put the game away. A tiring knuckle ball pitcher walked Stuart and Quinn to start things off and their shortstop then booted a potential double play ball. That proved fatal as Nick Reeves walked to plate a run, Adam and Riley drove in runs with infield grounders and Nick Salle pounded out his third hit to give MBC a walk-off eight run mercy ending.