On sun drenched Friday evening at Hartman Park, the Redmond Mustangs fell victim to the long ball as the Eastlake Wolves hit three homeruns enroute to a 7-1 victory.
Junior starting pitcher Cole Uyematsu worked out of an early jam in the first inning, but the same magic couldn’t be found in the second inning. Finding himself in a bases loaded situation, the young righthander watched as a 2-1 changeup went over the leftfield fence for a grand slam off the bat of Wolves leadoff hitter, Grady Woodward. Two innings later, the freshman UW commit (Woodward) hit another homerun, this one a solo shot.
Offensively, the Mustangs couldn’t get anything going off of the Eastlake starting pitcher, only amassing two baserunners through five innings. In the sixth the Mustangs loaded the bases with one out, but senior clean up hitter, Ayush Krishnappa, hit a laser down the third baseline which was snared by the Wolves defender and turned into a double play.
The lone bright spots on the night came late in the game for the Mustangs. Senior Yuma Masaki tossed two shutout innings in the 6th and 7th, riding his fastball up to 85 in mowing down the Wolves. And, with two out in the bottom of the 7th, junior Aaron Beltran launched a solo homerun to right-centerfield for his first career varsity hit.
Redmond travels to Lee Johnson field on Tuesday at 7 pm to face the Juanita Ravens.