Extra-Inning Effort Ends Skid for Resilient Baycats
Hamilton, ON – How do you snap a two-game slide? With a gritty win – in extra innings. The Baycats are back in the win column after an 8-6 win in Hamilton against the Cardinals. Barrie was up 5-0 at one point and had to face some adversity in the late stages but kept fighting.
Cesar Rosado was electric in what was a bounce-back start, tossing seven shutout innings. Adam Khan stranded the bases loaded in the eighth, allowing one unearned run with Barrie up 5-1. The Baycats scored five in the fifth to knock Cardinals starter Enrique Saldana out of the game.
Braedan Pakkala got the first out of the ninth but then had trouble with command, and the Cardinals pulled to within one after Noah slipped on the infield dirt. Carlos Sano came in, and this is where things got interesting. With runners on first and third, Sano tried to pick off the trail runner who had gotten a running start. He did not appear to see the lead runner break for home, which tied the game.
The Baycats got out of the inning after the runner who came home ran into Tyler Plumpton, who was retrieving the ball, and baserunner interference was called. The tying run counted, but because Plumpton was interfered with while the other runner was going for third, the umpiring crew made the out call.
In the tenth, Barrie had the bases loaded and two out for Adam Odd. Against one of the top relievers in the Intercounty Baseball League, Steven Hospital, Odd worked a walk, forcing in Nolan Machibroda to give the Baycats a 6-5 lead. The very next batter, Noel McGarry-Doyle, ripped a two-run double over the left-fielder’s head to make it 8-5.
Sano gave up an unearned run in the bottom half but locked it down. He is now 5-1 on the season after pitching two innings, two days in a row.
FINAL SCORE: Baycats 8, Cardinals 6.
NEXT UP: The Baycats host the Chatham-Kent Barnstormers Saturday afternoon at 4:05 p.m.