In another very hot day in Nashville the Royals played their Sandlot World Series single elimination playoff game at noon on Friday against the At The Yard Roosters from Kentucky, one of the higher rated teams in the competition.
The Royals started well and took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first when Jeff Slasor and Daniel Campos both score after having singled. In the second inning the Royals took a 3-0 lead on a rbi double by Kaleb Leff that scored Logan Karse who had gotten on base on an error by the American short stop. Unfortunately, the Royals would only manage 2 more singles the rest of the way by Andrew Bolton and Matthew McCue.
For the second time in as many playoff games, Arsene Pinguelo got the starting assignment for the Canadian team. Pinguelo was excellent through the first 3 innings keeping the Roosters off the score sheet while allowing only two hits and striking out three and walking one. In the bottom of the 4th Pinguelo had trouble finding the strike zone and along with a throwing error on a pick off attempt found himself with the bases loaded and no outs. The fourth batter of the inning flied out to center field making the score 3-1. After the next hitter walked Pinguelo was relieved by J.D. Bryce who after walking the first player he faced to make the score 3-2 induced a 1-2-3 double play ball to get out of the inning with the 3-2 lead.
The score stayed 3-2 until the top of the seventh when the Royals took a 4-2 lead on a unearned run scored by Dolan Dunigan who had lead off the inning with a walk.
In the bottom of the seventh with the score at 4-3 and one out the Roosters hit a walk off grand slam home run to give them a 7-4 victory.
It was a heart breaking way to end a trip in which the Royals played very well compiling a .722 winning percentage winning 13 out of 18 games against very good American teams.
Congratulations to all the players and coaching staff for a job well done.
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