Baycats Win Wild One Over Barnstormers in High-Scoring Showdown

Barrie, ON – This game had a lot: a triple play, multiple runs scored on wild pitches, and five innings between both teams where one side scored three or more runs. The offences were out and firing in a 12-10 Baycats win over Chatham-Kent.

The nice part? It wasn’t 40 degrees outside like a few of the previous Saturday home games. But the Baycats were racing to beat the incoming rain. You’d think with 22 runs scored that would be difficult, but the game wrapped up in just under three hours—a real breath of fresh air after Thursday’s game that ended early Friday morning.

The Baycats scored four in the second and five more in the seventh. Willy Garcia had three doubles, Nolan Machibroda and Adam Odd each drove in two, and Clayton Keyes and Andrew Johnston combined for four runs scored and five walks between them.

Johnston, however, was on the wrong side of history in the fifth inning. With the bases loaded and nobody out, the Barrie backstop grounded into a 5-4-3 triple play—on just the third pitch Chatham-Kent reliever Catalin Morin threw in the game. The Barnstormers seized the momentum and tied the game at seven in the very next half inning.

Baycats starter Juan Benítez allowed seven earned runs over six innings pitched. Yuri O’Connor Yokoyama gave up seven runs—four earned—in his outing. Chris Nagorski picked up the win, his first since returning to the Baycats, after tossing a scoreless seventh inning. Jonathan Warden recorded the six-out save, and Aden Ryan was charged with the loss.

FINAL SCORE: Baycats 12, Barnstormers 10.

NEXT UP: The Baycats head to Toronto to face the Maple Leafs at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.