Offenses dominate as Rebels U15 outscore Cardinals 12-9
Man of the match went to Derek baylis for making a critical catch at first base without loosing his pants.
FANS were treated to a high-scoring affair on Sunday, as Rebels outscored the Cardinals Baseball Club’s promo side 12-9 in six innings.
There were 27 hits, including eight extra base hits in the game.
Rebels came out swinging, scoring five runs in the first inning to jump ahead of the Cardinals early. Rebels scored in the first on a two-run triple by Dylan Ebrahim, an RBI double by Nathan Grobler, a ground-out by Cameron Whitfied, and an RBI double by Craig Reid.
Grobler racked up three RBIs on four hits for Rebels.
The Cardinals were hurt by a number of miscues in the field. The Cardinals committed three errors which led to three unearned runs for Rebels. Ebrahim got the win for Rebels, allowing four runs over five innings. Ebrahim struck out five, walked four and gave up seven hits.
Rebels easily handled the Cardinals pitching as six hitters combined for 13 hits, 11 RBIs and 10 runs scored.
Dale Coetzee ended up on the wrong side of the pitching decision, charged with the loss. He allowed 12 runs in six innings, walked four and struck out three.
Rebels pushed two runs across in each of the second, fourth and fifth. In the second, Rebels scored on an RBI single by Ebrahim, bringing home Cameron De Villiers.
A two-run third inning helped bring the Cardinals within six. An RBI single by Craig Dempsey and an RBI single by Vaughn Nel set off the Cardinals rally. Willem Kraamwinkel to end the
Cardinal scored two-runs in the third inning bringing them Cardinals within six runs to draw. An RBI single by Craig Dempsey ,Vaughn Nel set off Cardinals rally.
Rebels increased its lead with two runs in the fifth. That was followed up by Grobler’s double-scoring Blake Saayman.
Cardinals scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth to cut their deficit to eight.
After pushing across five runs in the bottom of the sixth, the Cardinals faced just a 12-9 deficit. An RBI single by Coetzee, Dempsey, Nel, Laezaro Lopez, and a ground-out by Kraamwinkel gave Cardinals a final chance but as they were one player short, they lost momentum as the 9th batter is assumed automatically out and this ended their chance of a comeback.
Man of the match went to Derek Baylis for making a critical catch at first base without losing his pants.
