Infield Fly Rule Leads P 58

There is that old saying that you see something at the old park that you have never seen before and tonight it happened.  Trailing Durham Post 7 2-0 in the bottom of  the third Dawson Sikes started P 58's third inning with a walk.  Josh Pittman sacrifice bunt was well placed beating it out for a hit. Colby Carter reached base the hard way getting hit.  Bases loaded no outs time for a deep blast from Noah Schrock right.

Noah hit a pop up maybe ten feet toward first base but it was hit a mile high.  Looked like it was going to be foul.  The wind played tricks all night on many balls hit in the air and as the first baseman gets under the ball it is blown fair and the first baseman fails to even get a glove on the ball. Fair ball every base runner starts moving including Dawson Sikes who was on third.  The first baseball picks up the now fair ball and tosses home to the catcher who steps on the bag for a force out and throws to third where Josh Pittman looks  as if Durham is going to get a double play on a force play on Pittman.    The catchers throw sails to left field and Pittman scores what everyone thought cut the lead to 2-1.

Come to find out the fielding umpire called an infield fly rule on Noah Schrock which made him an automatic out.  Infield fly all runners advance at their own risk.  So with Schrock out there is no force at home and the catcher needed to tag Sikes out but he didn't because he thought it was a force play and threw wildly to third.

After the dust had settled and all the arguing was over Rocky Mount scored two runs on a fly ball that never went more than ten feet from home.   Whether it gave Coleman Pitt life or shook up Durham Rocky Mount scored six more runs before the inning ended.  There were two big hits as Logan Pearce knocked home two runs with a double rolling to the wall in left and Josh Pittman tripled  over the right fielder's head scoring two runs.

Coleman Pitt was missing two possible pitchers tonight as David Pittman and Reid Johnson were both playing in the State Games in Raleigh.  So Coleman Pitt sent Trey Wells to  the mound and he gave way to Trevor Mills who gave way to Zack Keeter and Josh Daniels pitched the ninth.  Coleman Pitt gave up five runs on 14 hits but were never in jeopardy in this one as they added three more runs in the eighth to win 11-5.

Josh Pittman for the second game in a row had three hits and 2 RBI.  Colby Carter reach with two hits and a RBI.  Noah Schrock, Tyler Barrett, Logan Pearce 2 RBI, John Michael Kelly RBI all had a hit.  Luke Fenlen led Post seven going 4-6 with five RBI.

The last two games Coleman Pitt played 25 innings and produced only seven runs.  The third inning CP 58 scored eight runs alone.  Coleman Pitt goes to 3-0 in division play and 6-3 over all winners of six straight.  Next time out for Coleman Pitt will be next Wednesday night when Durham returns in what will not be a division game.