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June 28, 2025: Frederick is the only team in the league to have a winning record against us, so we weren’t going into this one expecting them to lie down when playing on their field. We left the bases loaded in the third, no score, and Frederick hit us hard in the bottom of the inning, Cooper Whitton launching a two-run homer out of center to put them on the board. Clay Grady hit a solo bomb out of center left in the top of the fourth to get us on the board, trailing 2-1, but they led off in the bottom of the eighth with a solo bomb to extend the lead to two, and we had to go to the pen. Grant Richardson struck out a pair to end that inning, but we needed a pair in the ninth to keep the game going ... and tonight that was not in the cards. We lost 3-1, continuing to struggle against the Keys. Evan Blanco pitched seven innings with four hits, eight strikeouts and three earned runs, but wound up falling to 0-3 with a 2.27 ERA. We outhit them 6-4, but only Grady managed to put a run on the board.
June 29, 2025: We took the lead off a sac-fly by Henry Godbout in the top of the first, and Eli Lopez hit a three-run homer in the second to put us up 4-0. That should have set the tone, but with two outs in the bottom of the third we let the Keys crack open the door, scoring three runs to get right back in this one. We bought ourselves some breathing room with a two-run homer off Brody Donay’s bat in the fifth inning, and we added a run in the sixth to keep them further off kilter. We let them have a run back off loaded bases in the bottom of the eighth, but Tallon came out with a three-run lead to protect in the ninth and he did his thing, quieting their fans as we held tough to win 7-4. J.T. Quinn improved to 3-1 with a seven inning seven hit one walk eight strikeout performance, allowing four runs but only one of them was earned. We had his back, outhitting them 11-9 behind a two hit, one walk, one run and two RBI day for Donay, giving us a chance to fight tomorrow for the series win.
June 30, 2025: Vince Fattore got us going in the top of the second with a three-run homer, his fourth of the year, Henry Godbout hit a three-run blast of his own in the fifth to pile on, and though the Keys had several scoring opportunities in the game’s first half, they squandered them all by playing timidly on the basepaths. That’s not a mistake you’ll often see us making. I’ll admit it, we ran things up on them in the end, adding six runs in the sixth including a GRAND SLAM homer by Donay that completely silenced their fans. They did finally score in the bottom of the seventh with a solo homer by Matthew Mateo, but by then the game was far gone. We wound up beating them soundly 12-2, behind an eight inning seven hit, one walk, 10 strikeout performance by Ben Barrett, who is now 3-0 with a 1.36 ERA through five starts. We outhit them 14-8, led by Donay with two hits, two runs and four RBIs, while Albright added three hits and a pair of runs.
We went 18-6 in June, and will open the month of July with a pair of home series, facing West Virginia (15-9) and Mahoning Valley (4-20), before hitting the road to play Frederick (11-13) and West Virginia.
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