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Campesinos bats stay hot against Senators
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Patrick Chung is greeted by multiple teammates after scoring a run in the first inning.
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
No matter who they are playing,
the Campesinos pride themselves on
always bringing their A-game.
Nick Ybarra and Rick Phillips each
had three hits and two RBIs as the
Campesinos defeated the last-place
Senators 14-6 on Friday, Aug. 6, main-
taining their stranglehold on the fi rst-
place spot in the Mavericks League.
“They don’t give anything away, it
doesn’t matter who we are playing. We
are always just trying to go out and do
the things we need to do and play the
game the right way,” Campesinos man-
ager Daniel Robertson said.
After the Senators got on the
board in the top of the fi rst on an RBI-
triple by Blayze Arcano-Liacuna, the
Campesinos took advantage of a pair
of Senators errors in the bottom half
of the frame to score fi ve runs in the
inning. Trevor Morrison came through
with the key hit of the inning, lining a
two-run single to center fi eld.
“Teams make errors and good teams
take advantage of it. That is what we
did tonight,” Robertson said.
Despite being up by four runs, looks
of concern fell on the faces of those in
the Campesinos dugout when one of
their top starting pitchers, Eli Fultz,
was taken out of the game after 1.2
innings due to a tricep injury in his
throwing arm.
“Hopefully he can get healthy soon
because he is the heart and soul of what
we do,” Robertson said of Fultz.
Fortunately for the Campesinos,
their bullpen stepped up in a major
way. Jacob Asa, Fernando Rosales, Von
Aulger and Christian Herrera com-
bined to throw 7.1 innings in relief and
gave up just one earned run.
“It is no surprise to me that our
bullpen jells together so well,”
Robertson said.
The Senators cut the lead to 5-3 in
the top of the second. But after a trio
of scoreless frames, the Campesinos
hung a crooked number on the
Photo by MATT RAWLINGS of Keizertimes
board in the bottom of the fi fth.
After Campesinos catcher Sergio
Rey was hit with a pitch to lead off the
inning, eight-hole hitter Drew Bayard
clobbered a two-run homer to right
fi eld to put the Campesinos up 7-3.
“(Bayard) is a very intricate part of
our off ense. It’s a pleasure to watch
him play,” Robertson said. “We are
very lucky to have him hit in that spot
because he’s not an
eight-hole hitter. In
any other lineup,
he would be some-
where else, but it’s
so comforting to
put a guy down
there knowing that
you are going to
get a great at-bat.”
Later in the
inning,
Collin
Runge blasted a
two-run homer of
his own to complete
the fi ve-run frame
for the Campesinos
to put his team on
top 10-3.
Salem pushed
across a pair of
The way they treat
each other is just
uncanny. That day-in
and day-out love for
each other is really
something special.
— DANIEL ROBERTSON
Campesinos Manager