SAN ANTONIO – Six UTSA baseball standouts launched home runs to highlight a 13-3 series-evening win by the blue team over the black team in the second of an intrasquad three-game Fall World Series, held Saturday at Roadrunner Field.
After the Black team posted an 11-5 win over Blue in the first game of the series on Friday night, Blue answered with a series-evening win to force a Sunday rubber match. With Black up 2-1 after three complete innings, Blue rallied to outscore their foes 12-1 over the final four frames of the seven-inning contest, including a six-run sixth.
All three games are being played at Roadrunner Field without patrons due to UTSA's covid-19 protocols.
Blue was led at the plate by a 2-for-3, three RBI game from Dylan Rock, who added a walk, belting a two-run homer in the fourth and a one-run double in the sixth. Blue also got three RBI from Nick Thornquist, who hit a second-inning homer to get Blue on the board, later adding a two-run double in the sixth. Kyle Bergeron wen 2-for-2 with a homer, walk and three RBI.
Hobbs Price, playing for Blue, and the Black team's Joshua Lamb each homered for the second straight game in the series. Leyton Barry also hit a homer to highlight the Black team's offensive performance.
Blue's pitching performance saw four Roadrunners combine to allow three runs on four hits, with Zach Griggs worked a staff-best three innings. Grant Miller, a junior southpaw, worked 1.2 shutout innings in relief, with Shane Anderson, a righty out of Chandler, Ariz., working 1.1 shutout frames. A product of Houston's Dobie High School, Daniel Garza finished off the game with the final three outs.
On the bump, Black used Shane Daughety, Fischer Kingsbery, Jay Ward, Chris Shull and Colby Diduch, with Daughety working a game-long four innings with three strikeouts.
Lamb opened the scoring for Black with a leadoff homer in the second inning.
Blue answered behind Thornquist's solo shot in the bottom of the second.
In the third, Jorge Cuevas drew a leadoff walk, taking second on a passed ball and stealing third base with one out. Jonathan Tapia forced Cuevas home for a 2-0 Black lead with a groundout up the middle.
Blue took the lead for good in the fourth inning behind Rock's two-run homer.
After a run in the fifth, Blue went for six in the sixth and three in the seventh, highlighted by homers from Price and Bergeron.
Berry hit his first homer of the series in the seventh for the final margin.
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