Lynnhaven Palomino completed their season last night with probably one of the wildest games you can ever be a part of.........but we will start with our first game against Tawain.
Game 1 - Lynnhaven loses a heartbreaker 2-1 in eight innings to Tawain.....Karter Rivera pitched another outstanding game for us, but the defense let him down giving up two unearned runs.....1 in the sixth inning and 1 in the eight. Karter should have won this game 1-0. Additionally, we lost our starting shortstop in this game, Paul Jaglowski to a broken hand.....a big blow to our middle infield. Paul was the leader of this team and did not let them quit. Most people at the game said this was probably the best game they had seen in 4 or 5 years.....but wait until game three comes around.
Game 2 - Lynnhaven takes game two from the Host Team, San Jose Blaze 7-1 behind the pitching of Eddie Butler and offense of Mike McCutcheon and Kyle Newcomb. Mike hit a homerun that was probably 450 feet.
Game 3 - Lynnhaven survives a 13 inning, 4 and half hour game...which we never led until the last at-bat. Final score was 14-13. Opponent was East Lansing, MI. East Lansing jumped on us early in the first inning and didn't let up on our pitching staff, aided by numerous errors. In the bottom of the seventh inning, East Lansing was winning 11-8, two outs....James Taylor singles, followed by a single by Cameron Butler.....Trevor Hinson hits a 3 run homer to tied the game. But East Lansing strikes right back with 2 in the top of the eighth....but again, our team was not going to quit......with one out...Blake Boyce walks and Kyle Newcomb smacks a two run homer to tie the game at 13-13......finally both teams had chances in the next 4 innings but could not plate a run...but in the bottom of the 13th Cameron Butler hits a walkoff homer to end the game. Lynnhaven hit 7 homeruns in this game and Mike McCutcheon hit another monster shot...this time, probably 475 - you would have had to seen it to believe it.
So after playing 49 games this summer, we end of 3rd in the World in Palomino Baseball.....not to bad, not to bad.
Congrats guys and thanks for all the hardwork and dedication.......Lynnhaven will depart San Jose California in the morning for our journey back to Virginia Beach!
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