Jarboe’s catches helped Paxton’s starting pitcher, Zach Carr, to pitch a shutout through Game 1’s first five innings. Throughout the rest of the contests, the Swedes committed a combined two errors as their defensive efforts included a leaping catch of a fly ball by right-fielder Ben Jarboe in the third inning and a running catch in the fourth inning. “We played pretty good defense those first 6-7 innings, and then we didn’t play very good defense for the last two of the first game and the first two of the second game,” Prina said. It was the second of five errors committed by the Swedes over the span of the final two innings of Game 1 and the first two innings of Game 2. Smith hit an infield single with two outs and Carr drew a walk before a fly ball was dropped by William Van Duyne in left field, resulting in two more runs crossing home plate. With one out, two wild pitches each resulted in a run. In the ninth inning, Noah Johnson and Nate McFall each drew a walk. Blake Hoveln sent a run home with a sacrifice fly ball to left field before a throwing error by Jacob Spear on a Thomas Wolken ground ball led to the tying run crossing home plate. The Giants (6-0) tied Game 1 in the eighth inning with two runs.īrayden Weaver and Brandon Smith each singled before moving into scoring position via a Colton Carr sacrifice bunt. It’s disappointing, but not the end of the world.” You can’t give extra outs against good teams, and we did that today. You’ve got to play a complete game to win. “We had some good positives out of the day, but unfortunately, we’ll remember the four bad innings instead of all the other good things we did during the day, but that’s baseball. We had a couple of bad ones in a row, and it cost us. “It would have been nice to win that first one, especially since we had them beat. “We probably should have won that first game if we made a couple of plays down the stretch,” Swedes player/manager Mark Prina said. However, the Giants scored six runs in the final two innings to win that game 7-3 before scoring eight runs in the first two innings of Game 2 en route to a 14-2 victory. ![]() ![]() ![]() PAXTON – The Paxton Swedes led 3-1 after the seventh inning of Game 1 of Sunday’s Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader against the Royal Giants.
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