Foothill versus El Toro - Game 11

El Toro - 4

Foothill - 2

Mantra for the game? "Straighten it out kid, straighten it out"..

I say that only because both teams went to the plate swinging the bats and the pitchers were able to get guys out on their front foot early and rolled over on a lot of balls.

Neither team scored in the first, but El Toro was able to push a run across in the bottom of the second. Matt Le Vert singled and advanced to 3rd on an errant pick off attempt, and Devin Schaefers did his part by bringing him in with a sacrifice fly to center.

In the 4th, with the score tied 1-1, Le Vert walked, Logan Roberts singled and eventually both advanced a base on a sacrifice. With two outs, Andrew Kincade came through with a big 2 strike single to right, driving in both runners, making the score 3-1 after 4.

The 5th started out with a Jayson Yano walk followed by a Mitchell Tolman bunt. James Meager followed with a single bringing in Yano and putting us at 4-1 Chargers.

Brett Hammond was on the hill for El Toro doing what he seems to do every game. What's that? Well pretty much shut everyone down.... Going into the 7th, he'd given up 1 run on 4 scattered hits, but the Knights threatened and refused to go easily. After getting the first out on a comebacker, Foothill followed with a single, double and a walk to load them up. A hard line drive up the middle looked to close the gap, but Tolman snared it for the second out, leaving the bases loaded. A swinging bunt down the 3rd base line, brought the score to 4-2, bases still loaded. Hammond then beared down and got the final out on an easy grounder to second.

With the win, El Toro moves to 8-3 on the year and 4-0 in league play. They'll take a 4 game winning streak into Thursday as they travel to Trabuco Hills High School to face the Mustangs. Game time is 3:15 (weather permitting).

Bill