Rural Baseball Inc., finished its weekend at the Cowlitz County Clash in Longview with a 2-3 record, after falling to Diamond Sports Gray 4-2 on Sunday.
“Our guys were stinging the baseball all day but we couldn’t find a hole in their defense,” RBI skipper J.C. Workman said. “It was like batting practice, and it even felt like they had 12 guys with gloves on in the field.”
Dom Rowland (W.F. West) went 1 for 3 with an RBI, while Jake Comer (Mossyrock), Austin Chapman (Napavine), and Garrett Keeton (PWV) all added hits.
Diamond Sports took an early lead, but RBI came back to tie things up at 2-2 in the top of the fourth. The scoreline stayed there until the bottom of the sixth, when Diamond Sports went for a suicide squeeze with two outs and failed to get the bunt down. Keeton caught the pitch and dove forward to tag the runner out, but had the ball kicked out of his mitt on the slide.
The Grays added an insurance run that would prove to be unnecessary before the Dirtbags could get out of the inning.
RBI started the weekend off roughly, falling to the same Diamond Sports side 15-1 and to the Clark County Cubs 11-5 on Friday. Saturday, the Dirtbags bounced back, run-ruling the second Clark County side 15-2 in six innings before holding on for dear life in a 12-10 win over Portland Baseball.
Toledo’s Gavin Frewing went 5 for 5 with six RBIs against the Oregon side and ended up earning the save on the hill after a knock, four free passes, an error, and three wild pitches helped Portland plate five runs in the seventh to turn a 12-5 jaunt into a two-run nailbiter.
