Worthley Deals Gem, Red Claims Series Victory

Jalen Worthley pitched five shutout innings, as the Red team clinched the series victory in the Red-White Series with a 5-1 win on Tuesday afternoon at Hawks Field.

Red scored five runs on six hits and an error, while White totaled a run on four hits and two errors.

Worthley allowed just four hits in the five shutout innings and totaled three strikeouts and a walk in the win. Blake Encarnacion took the mound for the sixth inning, while Aiden White pitched a scoreless seventh frame with a pair of strikeouts.

White’s TJ Coats pitched 4.2 shutout innings, allowing just two hits with five punchouts and three walks in the start. Casey Daiss took the loss after giving up five runs, four earned, on three hits in one out. Evan Borst pitched the final two innings for the White squad, allowing just one hit.

Red’s Joshua Overbeek was 3-for-4 at the plate with a double and a run scored. Hayden Lewis, Riley Silva and Kanon Sundgren tallied one hit apiece.

Case Sanderson led White with a pair of hits, while Rhett Stokes and Devin Nunez recorded one hit.

After four scoreless frames to begin the game, the Red offense threatened in the top of the fifth after loading the bases with two outs. Matt Evans and Cayden Brumbaugh drew four-pitch walks, while Silva was plunked on an 0-1 pitch. White’s Daiss eluded the damage with a strikeout to get out of the inning unharmed.

The Red offense plated all of its runs in the top of the sixth on Tuesday, scoring five runs on three hits and an error to take a 5-0 lead. A leadoff walk to Cael Frost, followed by a bunt single from Overbeek placed runners on first and third with no outs.

Jaron Cotton broke the scoreless tie with an RBI fielder’s choice, before RBI singles from Lewis and Sundgren had Red out front by three. The Red squad loaded the bases with one out in the inning and saw its lead grow to five after an RBI fielder’s choice by Silva and a wild pitch made it a 5-0 game.

Consecutive walks to Will Jesske and Hogan Helligso and a passed ball had runners on second and third with no outs in the bottom of the seventh for the White squad. The White offense was only able to plate one run after Nunez lifted a sacrifice fly to deep left that brought home Jesske to bring the score to 5-1.

The Red-White Series wraps up tomorrow afternoon at 3:05 p.m. at Hawks Field.