The Miners jumped on the Oregon Black Sox early and often in this one to pull to a 3-1 mark on the year. Mat-Su scored a run in each of their first 5 innings including 5 runs in the 3rd.
The 3rd started with two straight walks at the top of the order for Scott Arthur (Texas A&M) and David Alleman (Texas A&M). Shane Brown (Central Florida) batted forward all the runners a base with a single. Cleanup hitter Jonathan Ciseneros (St. Mary's) then got a groundout to the right side of the field and picked up an RBI when Alleman scored. Blake Newalu (Chipola CC) then got the third walk of the inning for the Miners before Chad Marshall (Stony Brook) cleared the bases with his second triple of the summer. Nick Cox then reached on a fielder's choice, but picked up the RBI as Marshall made a nice slide to avoid the tag at home. Nick Croce (Hawaii), Jonathan Johnson (Loyola Marymount) and Arthur rounded out the inning making it the first time this season the Miners batted around in an inning.
The Miners also got a good game on the mound. Jeremy Atkins (Lafayette) picked up the win pitching 7 innings while only giving up 2 runs (1 earned) and striking out 2. He did not pitch for strikeouts but got a lot of guys ground or fly into easy outs. He entered the 7th inning having thrown only 66 pitches to that point. Will Musson (Eastern Connecticut) saw his first action on the rubber after playing DH the previous 3 games. RL Eisenbach (Lubbock Christian) finished things off in the 9th also throwing his first pitches in ABL baseball.
The Miners had a 7-0 lead after the 3rd and ere never threatened from then on out by the Black Sox. What's surprising is how much success the Black Sox had against other ABL teams and how well Mat-Su took care of them. The Black Sox were previously 3-1 against ABL teams with their only loss coming 1-0 to a team they beat 7-0 the day before. The Miners played by far their best baseball of the year against this squad.
Every single Miner got on base with 7 guys scoring a run and 6 picking up RBIs. It's hard to pick standouts on a team that had so much offensive success and so little trouble winning, but here are a few of the headliners. Marshall went 1-2 with his triple and picked up 3 RBIs on the game. Brown, Cisneros, and Newalu eached picked up 2 hits, scored a run and got an RBI on the evening. Nick Cox (Columbia) only went 1-4 but scored 2 runs and batted in 2 runners. It is hard not to just list the box score with how well this team played.
Next up for the Miners is a revenge game against the Anchorage Bucs. They lost to the Bucs 8-5 in the season opener. Another league win to add to the 1-1 ABL record will do a good thing for this team coming off 3 very good performances from many different players.
Mat-Su Miners Pregame will be at 6:45 and the first pitch will follow at 7:00.
Make sure to check out matsuminers.org for the broadcast, stats and photos of the team throughout the season.
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