The Seattle Monarchs have taken Game 1 of the Cecil Cup series with a 9-4 victory over the River City Sternwheelers.
Things started going wrong for the 'Wheelers from the first pitch when Ronald Quijada hit a 385 foot home run off of starter Juan Villatoro. A single, a balk, a triple and another single brought in two more runs in the top of the first for the Monarchs. Seattle put another four runs on the board in the fifth, chasing Villatoro from the game.
Meanwhile, Christopher Hester kept mowing down the River Cities players, with only one runner even reaching third before the eighth inning.
Seattle piled on another two runs in the eighth against reliever Damian Coppock, on a single, double, ground out and single.
The boys from River Cities finally got to Hester in the eighth, leading off the inning with four hits in a row. By the time the inning was over, Hester was pulled and four runners had crossed the plate. But, as the saying goes, it was too little, too late. After allowing a lead off double to Guillaume Fournier, John Burgess retired the next three batters to finish the game.
Game 2: Monday night.
Actually, Hester left the game after seven scoreless innings, giving up just four hits and two walks, while striking out eight. The runs scored off reliever Davis.
ReplyDeleteThe 17 hits Seattle racked up in this game may be more than the team had in the whole series with Maui. Probably more than they'll get the rest of this series too. But any win against Villatoro is a good win.
Now if Placencia can come up big in Game Two, we'll be getting somewhere.
Damn straight. Villatoro going down that way knocks a big hole in my game plan. That smarts.
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