June 11 at Bobby Boss Stadium in Loganville, GA
A trio of left-handers out of the Rockdale bullpen were the main story in this early-season contest in American Legion play, but unfortunately for Post 77 it was for all the wrong reasons.
Those three - Matthew Hammers, Christian Young and Yorel James - combined to walk 10 batters in just 1 2/3 innings of combined work, turning a scoreless game into a 7-0 Loganville victory. Sometimes you just lose the strike zone, and for Conyers, GA-based Post 77, three people lost the strike zone and it meant a shut out loss.
Post 233 didn't pick up a single hit while those three were in the game during the sixth and seventh innings, but they scored six times, and it took right-hander Nathan Greene coming into the game before Loganville got a line drive, RBI-single from Bailey Dutton to make it 7-0.
To be truthful, the actual main story was Brantley Frost, but the Loganville right-hander was somehow over-shadowed by the wildness of the Post 77 hurlers. I'm sure Frost has no problem with that because he tossed a complete game, five-hit shut out and struck out nine. All five of those hits were singles in Frost's 120-pitch gem.
* Before the meltdown on the mound, the first two Post 77 pitchers were quite good. Starter Chris Simonds, who is headed to LaGrange College in middle Georgia in the fall, didn't allow a hit in three excellent innings. He was followed by his former Salem High School teammate and Maryville College (Maryville, TN) signee Rocky Mauriello, who gave up four hits, but kept Loganville off the scoreboard.
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