Jaguar baseball evens the series. The final score 5-2. One day after being embarrassed on their home field, losing 15-5 thanks to some sloppy play on both offense and defense. The Jaguars were look for a chance for redemption.
How It Happened
The Jaguars got the scoring started in the bottom of the first. Erick Orbeta walked on four pitches to lead off the inning. JG Bell followed with a single to the right side. Will Turner gets hit by the pitch to load the bases. That would bring Trey Lewis to the plate with nobody out. Lewis reached on a fielders choice and picked up the rbi as Orbeta scored. Turner was out at second.
Joseph Sullivan came to the plate next. During the at bat, Bell would score on a wild pitch and Lewis would advance to second. “ Sully” would continue his at bat and walked. Tyler Borges would be next up, and also walk to load the bases again. Cole Ketzner would pop up for the second out. Austin Thrasher would hit the ball to third base. Sullivan would be forced out at third base for the final out of the inning. In the inning the Jaguars get 2 runs and led 2-0.
Moving to the bottom of the third, the Jags looked to extend their lead. Turner doubled to right center to lead off the inning. Lewis would walk and “ Sully” was hit by a pitch to load the bases for the third time in the game. Borges would get an rbi walk scoring Turner on the play. The bases would remain loaded with no outs. Ketzner would then strikeout and Thrasher would end the inning by grounding into a double play. In the inning the Jaguars picked up 1 run and led 3-0.
In the top of the fourth and fifth Georgia State would pick up one run each inning. That trimmed the Jags lead to 3-2.
In the bottom of the fifth inning. The Jags add to the lead. Turner lead off the inning getting hit by a pitch, yet again. Trey Lewis stepped to the plate. After Turner advanced to second on a wild pitch, Lewis would fly out for the first out of the inning. That brought Sullivan to the plate. “Sully” would smack a 2 run home run to right. Borges then walked with one out. Ketzner flew out to center, for the second out. Thrasher was hit by a pitch and Lawrence would fly out to right, to end the inning. In the inning South Alabama picked up 2 runs and led 5-2.
That score would hold up and become the final. Jags win 5-2.
Game Stats
Mitchell Heer got the start and got the win. Improving his record to 3-1 on the season. Heer went 5 innings, giving up 2 earned runs on 6 hits, striking out 7 and walking just 1.
Colson Lawrence came in to relieve Zach Wilingham. ( who was sandwiched by Heer and Lawerence). Coleson pitched 3 strong innings giving up just one hit, and no runs, walking just one. He is being extended some. His bat is struggling some on offense, but he could be a nice surprise in the pen going forward.
Joseph Sullivan was 1 for 1 with 2 RBIs with the home run included.
Georgia State pitchers hit 5 Jaguars today put that with the 4 batters hit yesterday. They have hit 9 Jaguars so far in this series with one game to go.
Defensively this team is
Bryan’s Takes
Heer is starting to get extended more as he goes along. I look for him to be a big shot in the arm, for the pitching staff. He has a great arm and his control is coming along nicely.
The South Alabama offense is getting better, but still needs a little more consistency especially with with runners on and less than two outs. I feel like they are close to going on a long run. The offense seems to be missing the big explosive power bat, that they have had in the past. An Ethan Wilson type hitter that was a deep threat at anytime.
The pitching is still the major issue. The Jaguars do not have a solid starting staff, that can execute both effectively or efficiently. The staff seems to get ahead of hitters ( eg . 0-2 or 1-2) but then loses the hitter via walks in key situations, or giving up a big hit. Hopefully Lee’s performance last time out will carry over to this week and help ignite this staff.
Pitching Staff Key Stats
The staff ERA is 6.13.
The staff only has 1 shutout. (13-0 vs Southern)
The staff has only 2 complete games.
The staff has given up 45 home runs this season.
Teams are batting .274 vs the Jags.
Offensive Key Stats
Team batting average . 278
Team Home runs 46. ( Will Turner 11, Sullivan and Lawerence with 10 each)
Defensive Key Stats
Team Errors ( JG Bell leads team with 11 errors)
Next Up
The Jags go for the series win tomorrow, which would be their 4 straight series win.
game time 1pm Sunday.
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