THE DALLES’ Gordy Harris makes a catch in league baseball action Friday at Hermiston. The Hawks stranded five runners on base, including two in the seventh inning of their 1-0 road loss.
THE DALLES’ Gordy Harris makes a catch in league baseball action Friday at Hermiston. The Hawks stranded five runners on base, including two in the seventh inning of their 1-0 road loss.
With a chance to maintain a second-place tie in the Columbia River Conference, The Dalles baseball team mustered three hits and two walks, but left five runners on base, including two in the top of the seventh inning in a 1-0 loss Friday to Hermiston.
With one out in the seventh inning, Colton Walker reached on a walk and Dawson Hoffman followed with a single to put runners on first and second base.
A passed ball moved the runners into scoring position.
But Hermiston starter R.J. Robles retired the final two Riverhawk batters on a groundout and a popout to preserve the win.
Robles struck out nine in his complete-game performance.
From the fourth inning until the seventh, the southpaw retired eight batters in a row.
Both teams fought to a scoreless tie through the first three innings, but the Bulldogs got all of the offense they needed in the bottom of the fourth on a one-out RBI sacrifice fly by Dylan Caldwell.
Walker did his best to keep The Dalles in the game with his complete-game effort, as he struck out four, walked three and scattered three hits.
The fourth inning was the only time Hermiston had advanced a runner to third base.
Eli Holeman, Walker and Hoffman accounted for TD’s hits and Walker reached two other times on walks.
The top of the Riverhawk order of Gordy Harris, Kristian Lucas, Eli Holeman and Kellen Mathisen combined to go 1 for 12 in the game with five strikeouts.
No. 23 The Dalles (10-13 overall, 4-6 league) has another opportunity to move up in the standings at 4:30 p.m. tonight at Quinton Street Ballpark against No. 16 Pendleton (9-14, 5-5).
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