Yeah, Ryan Visconi is probably a victim of uh you know, two outs and and the you know, there's already a runner at third. So, Laro is is um well on his way home by the time that Ryan gets that ball. Right. There goes Devin. There's the throw. Not in time. No. That's good hustle. And then there's the compete. There's the hustle there, George. Yeah, that was a that was a good steal. see what they can do to um keep the offense moving here in the bottom of the fifth. Asham finally able to get guys uh out of scoring position and and back home. There's a foul ball. So it'll be one and one to Shriber and bottom of the fifth inning. Get two outs, runner on second, one ball, one strike. That ball's outside hard throwing hard. Payton now close to 80 pitches. One ball, two strikes to Shriber.
Yep. gets a hold of that one. He absolutely rips that. That's going to be foul. That's full of the fence. Yeah, that was a well hit ball. Baseball is one of those sports you keep saying, I bet you wish he had that one back to adjust, you know, just a little bit of the angle. Yeah. Yep. Um the wind's picking up here. It is. Yeah. I think it's blowing left to right from the uh from the batter. That's a nice hard hit ground ball into Brock Barry who scoops it up. Yeah. Yeah. That's Michael Strawberry. He's a dead pole hitter there. Another hard driven ball. But um Bellingham showing a little bit of that defense there. uh at shortstop. Well, Ashton was able to put two runs on the board here. Here we go. Nice nice hitting by Deon O'Brien to drive in two runs with that uh hard hit single.
Yeah, good diligence, you know, and it's a little bit of uh you know, uh we talked about um Payton Young and his ability as a pitcher, and I I think what you get uh sometimes is you've got um you've got a third time through the order. And um and and he just didn't get through the top of the order on that one there. George uh probably wants a couple of those pitchers back, but um you know, Ashland has had a couple of runners in scoring position. It was only kind of a matter of time before they're going to bring them around with the with the way they've been executing here today at the plate. Yeah, Bellingham has a pitcher warming up over on the side here. So, see what see what they do with uh Yeah, looks like Connor Riley, their left fielder. uh just getting some throws in.
So, we'll see. Uh we'll look for that at the uh the bottom bottom of the six there. See if uh if uh coach uh coach Chapony uh makes a change. Yeah, up at 59 pitches. So, so Jared uh just first one that drops in there for a base hit. It's just a little blooper. Yep. Right. Right in between where the second baseman can get to and center fielder can get to. Yep. Yeah. You need neither Aiden Cow or Oliver Laro able to get to that ball. No, I don't even think you could have got to it. Well, George, I appreciate, you know, like, you know, I mean, I I set the bar of of play with what I think you could do. Yes. I mean, what would Yes. It was not a catchable ball. Yeah. Yeah. I I mean, if anybody could could have, you know, I'd have been Yeah, that's exactly.
I will say though what's one of um you know as a you know as a baseball player and you know an outfield or you know I caught and played outfield but there's nothing like full run and dive and catch you know in the outfield. It's um very exhilarating. So, it's it's something you kind of I mean, you don't want you don't want to you want nice easy balls, you know, hitting right to you, you know, in terms of winning and you know, trying to win a game. But if you're in the outfield, you wait for those and to to try to execute on those plays. Well, those are the ones you remember. You don't remember that ball that just came right to you. Yeah. Right. Right. There's a little dribble that was gez tough for Jared to pick up, but he stayed on it, picked it up, and got the out of first base.
advancing Riley over to second. Yeah, I want to say that's Douglas Walton making uh it was making that hit. And I don't know if there's something that held him up out of the box, but um you're right. If he he didn't get the jump, jeez, he did not get the jump down the line that we we'd expect of him. Got a loose ball from the um makeshift uh bullpen that we've uh that the Hawks have created out here on um now I'm looking at it. I'm not Yeah, I think that's Viscani here. Takes the first strike. First pitch, first strike. Hard hit ball to Deon O'Brien who does a great job of looking down the runner at second base, preventing it from going to third and then gets gets back and gets the runner out of first. Is he an intentional walk here, John? Seems to be.
Um, that's that's Sullivan, the catcher. He's uh he's one of their top guys. Uh, Coach TJ's um uh had good things to say about him, the way he uh way he plays the game and the way he's a leader for for the other guys on the team. All right. So, we got runners at first and second, two outs. Takes for a strike. One ball, one strike. Yeah, Jared's still dealing. He's close to 70, but um just uh he's a he's a quick, efficient pitcher. Uh George, not a lot of motion, you know, not a lot of wasted movement, just gets up there, throws, executes, trustes fielders to make plays, gets balls down in the zone. Guy who can really uh eat up innings for you. Always get another ball uh another um ball on the outside corner there called strike. That's that's just good execution right there.
Two balls, two strikes. That one's high. Full count now. All right. Sherman here. Two out runners on first and second. Full count. Ball gets away. That ball gets away. Down low for a walk. Yeah, I don't think Gerard's had many walks this game. Nope. I don't really I'm sure he has. I don't recall any. Now we have the bases loaded. That's his third walk. And um see what coach is thinking over there. It's top of the six. No one's in the pan. I think he's um looking to get out of this inning. And um either that or he's got a uh he's got a guy in mind to replace Jared that's already in the field there. Good cut right there. Bring it one and one. One and one of a five batter Barry. Yep. One of their highest batting average guys. Yeah, he's he's definitely the guy Bellingham wants to have up right now.
That's high ball two. balls, one strike, base is loaded, two outs. Top of the fifth inning here. Sixth inning, I'm sorry. Oh, he gets called a strike on that. Two balls, two strikes. Yep. He's battling. He's battling and he plays a lot of baseball. He knows the situation. Got to swing on a fast ball up in the zone and doesn't get it. Brings it full. Most exciting situation in baseball. Full count with bases loaded and two outs. Runners going. He's got him. And he walks him in. That's just inside for a walk. Looks good from here, George. Look great from here. Tough one here. And now we're going to see coach Mess see if he's going to confer with him or if he's going to make a make a switch. Now mound meeting psychologically, you know, for a pitcher with bases loaded, it's it's not the situation you want you want to be in.
No. And you know, and it's tough because you don't want to put a pitch down the middle for the batter to hit and you start to move around to the corners, but then if you're not accurate with it, you're getting, you know, you don't want to walk either because I mean, yeah. I mean, a walk with nobody on is one thing, but a walk with a base. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think that's probably part of, you know, bringing, you know, not just uh coach talking to him, but bringing the infield in just give them the give them the confidence. Hey, we're right behind you. You know, if you can get something in the dirt here, we're right behind you. We'll get you there with you. You know, don't you're not out here on an island. I mean, it just feels that way sometimes as a pitcher that gez, you know, like the whole situation is resting on your shoulders and it's it's tough to get past that moment and Jared has been able to do that and and put uh challenging pitches to the to the plate where either um getting called strikes or getting swings.
So, see if he can do that here uh in the in the top of the sixth. Follow tip. Was a nice throw. He was down two balls, no strikes. Now he's got two balls, one strike. Y the lefty batter up here, Ventini. Yeah, this is the first base. Another foul back. Foul back. Now we're at two and two. I mean, none of these at bats have really been I think, you know, of his walks, he's maybe, you know, a couple of five or six pitch walks, but these have all been, you know, Oh, that's a breaking ball. He doesn't get it. Oh, George. Now we have a full count right there. Full count, two outs, bases loaded. Yeah, he's battled. He's battled at at every at um with every batter. There it is. He's got it in the air. That's in the air. That's That's Ollie.
Diving catch. Diving catch by Ollie. Beautiful catch. Good communication right there. So, you know, is that Shriber coming out? That's um Finn Connory and and Aiden Cowan kind of converging all on the on the ball and um just having good communication and know who's going to take that ball. Yeah. And then I mean Ollie had the the right beat on it. You know, he was certainly in the right position to come in on it. I think he got a good jump on it. Oh jeez. If if Yeah. Finn Finn is making able to make that catch over the over the opposite shoulder going back. I mean, you know, we got to Yeah. Again, if it was on you on second, I' I'd say both. Of course. Yes. That's the way we go. But but in the real world and the center for the center fielder has to uh has to take that one.
That's the story of the game so far, George. I mean, you know, you more than a few diving plays. Um, you know, in the outfield there with Ian, with uh Ollie, with Aiden, um, the the the scoop and throws in in in the infield. Um, the the fielding by the pitcher and and that's what saved him. Yeah. Um, you know, get out of that situation there. It's a tough one for Jared. He's up over 70 pitches. Um, but he doesn't cower. He's just throwing his pitches that he knows how to he knows how to throw. and, you know, relying on a nine instead of one players to to get an out. And that's the that's a success uh that's how success successful teams operate, you know, at this uh at this level. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth here with Ashlin ahead two to one.
Of course, they want to get some more runs on the board. Yeah. Um as you as Bellingham will get up at the top of the seventh to That's right. at least try to tie this thing up. Yeah. Yeah, you're middle of the order here. You're expecting uh Soderberg, man, and and Corn. Um see what they can do. Uh Soderberg 0 for two for the day. Payton staying in there. Um I don't know what his pitch count is, but you know, he he wants he wants this game. Yeah, he's just uh just short of 80. He's uh 79. Okay. Um and I think uh coach coach trusts him, you know. He's he's he's a top guy. He's he's got strength in that arm. He's probably got a few more in him. Um as well, just co talking with coach, you know, um he's probably managing the bullpen a little bit, too.
You know what I mean? It's a ground ball right to the first base. Yeah. Another tough one for uh Soda there. Yeah. And it hit the grass, took a lot off it, and just it was I think I could have fielded that. George, you don't discount yourself, you know. Uh we've we've done done uh many of uh many infield um practices, you know. So listen, you can handle tougher balls than that. Well, thank you. Ball's a floating foul and up here. So we got one out. Looks like uh coach mess has one up there in the bullpen. Yeah, looks like a lefty. Another ground ball to first base. That's exact same play as the last one. Yep. Yeah, that's his off speed stuff right there. Um George to get you know the foot down early in a weak weak uh swing through the ball. Yeah.
Aiden car at bat now going to make something happen here. Yeah. That ball sky high. Third baseman got a track on it coming in. Nice quick half inning right there. Yeah. That's exactly what Payton Young wanted. You might have been a six, seven pitch inning. Yeah. Yep. Allow him to potentially come back out. Yeah, that's actually four pitches for that inning. That's um you can't pay for that. You know what I mean? So Ashlin's three outs away from I mean this is a win we kind of would expect Ashlin to win against, you know, kind of a weaker division four team. Um I think it'd be more surprising if they didn't win, but Yep. But, you know, it's it's important to get the win. You can't take your foot off the pedal and kind of coast and let these games get away from you. So, they've done a good job of, you know, staying serious, staying sharp, and taking the game seriously even though they're facing a team with, you know, one win, 10 losses, and kind of a division down from them.
They've they've taken it seriously and they've played very good base. I don't think there was I don't think they've uh had an error. No. No. Um they've u played a clean game defensively. Um and they I think um well whatever happens you know they put into the game what what coach wanted to in terms of the effort level um in terms of the execution um it's you know nothing's guaranteed here. So we've got another three outs to get defensively. Um they've got another three outs offensively if it doesn't work in the first top in the top half of the inning. Um but you're right um they should be they should be able to win this. Um I think coach Messa here is going to Bradica and and expecting is that Bradica? It is. Yeah. Having having you know the best pitcher in your team come in for for for three outs of relief.
Y Bradica just pitched on Monday. Y so to have have him come in and throw uh hopefully, you know, a dozen or so pitches. Yeah. The umpire's having a little chat with with the coach. Looks like couple of changes here. I don't know. I don't know what happened here. We're going to switch things up. If there was a problem putting Bradock, I think uh maybe based on a number of pitches or days that Bradic's had since his last uh outing, it may have been an illegal uh move to to put him in. Yeah, they definitely got the umpire out here. Um and they're conferring. Um see a number of changes around the field here. It's still the left side of the infield stays the same. Looks like V Connor's moved back to right. Is that I don't know. Looks looks like Garly Laro is in.
So now they're going to go to Laro to close out. So yeah, so there there was definitely an issue that uh that putting Bradica in had and yeah, smart of the Bellingham coach to call it out. If I was Bellingham, that the last pitcher I'd want facing me would be Bradica. Yeah. Especially after I mean the the confluence between a pitcher like Grun Bomb and a pitcher like Bradica definitely right um you know kind of a wy right-hander versus more of a um overpowering and and deceptive uh left-hander. Although I think uh again I wasn't I think Ali p uh he pitched relief last game and had a great outing. Um I wasn't I wasn't there. You probably know more about it than I do for multiple reasons. Yeah, I I didn't see um I didn't see the full game. Um by the sounds of it um came in three innings uh two and a third, three strikeouts.
Um uh coach um Messa talked about that to us before the game just that you know giving um giving the team what he had kind of expected out of Laro for the whole season and hadn't quite gotten um always had been on the mound a few times for the team and hasn't had um I guess the success that that um neither he nor the coaching staff is is looking for. So these He's definitely a competitor. So, he's when that happens, that just I think that makes him more determined to to write the ship and do well. He's quickly behind two balls, no strikes. He's working pretty quickly up there. That ball's outside. He's got a strike there. That's in there for a strike. Three balls, one strike. And that's fouled off. Battle back to a full count. the bottom of the order here. So, this is kind of what you want when you're trying to close a game out.