Michael Brosseau has five hits to lead Waynesboro to 11-4 win at Winchester
Waynesboro broke open a close game with a late flurry, including four runs in the ninth, to post an 11-4 win at Winchester on Tuesday night.
The Generals (12-13) got on the board in the first when Michael Brosseau scored from third on a wild pitch. After a Khalil Denson RBI single tied the score at 1 after one, Waynesboro went back up, 2-1, on a RBI single by Clayton Taylor.
The Royals (12-14) took a 3-2 lead with two runs in the bottom of the third, both coming across on a two-run double by Nathaniel Maggio.
Waynesboro took the lead for good in the top of the fourth, on two-RBI single by Taylor that made it 4-3 Generals.
It would stay that way until the seventh, when T.J. Marik hit a two-run homer, his first of the season, extending the lead to 6-3.
A Zachary Carter RBI single in the bottom of the seventh got the Royals back to 6-4.
Waynesboro added an insurance run in the eighth on another RBI single by Taylor, then put up a four-spot in the ninth, in a sloppy inning on the part of the Royals, who threw four wild pitches, committed an error and hit a Generals hitter, around a sacrifice fly RBI by Enderson Velasquez.
Dillon Cate (1-0, 2.25 ERA) got the win, giving up a run in three innings of relief, striking out three and walking three.
Brosseau had five hits in six at bats and scored four runs in a solid effort at the plate and on the basepaths for Waynesboro.
Taylor had three hits and three RBI for Waynesboro, which hosts Strasburg on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Waynesboro Generals rally for four in 11th, stun Winchester
The Waynesboro Generals scored four runs in the bottom of the 11th to stun the Winchester Royals, 9-8, in Valley League baseball action on Wednesday at Linco Park at Kate Collins Field.
The Royals had scored three runs in the top of the 11th, the big blow being a two-out, two-run double by Michael Landestoy that made it 8-5 Winchester.
Clayton Taylor led off the Waynesboro 11th with a double. Imani Willis grounded out to short for out number one, before a Kevin Phillips single put runners on the corners with one down.
Joseph Estrada struck out for the second out of the inning, and then things got wild.
Shane Dressler was next, and he scored Taylor with an RBI single to make it 8-6. T.J. Marik followed with a run-scoring single to narrow the deficit to one.
Ryan Gridley joined the RBI single parade to score pinch-runner Jordan Harmon with the tying run.
The winning run scored on an infield error on a ball off the bat of Jeremy Taylor.
The rally made a winner of Jamal Wilson (1-2), who gave up three runs on two hits in three innings of relief, striking out four and walking two.
John Barr (1-2) took the loss for Winchester (7-10), which is in fourth place in the North, four games behind first-place Strasburg.
Michael Brosseau was 3-for-6 with two RBIs and a run scored for Waynesboro (7-9), which is in fourth in the South, four games behind first-place Staunton.
Waynesboro Generals nip Winchester Royals, 5-4
Will Lowman pitched four scoreless innings out of the bullpen, lifting the Waynesboro Generals to a 5-4 win over the Winchester Royals at Kate Collins Field Saturday night.
Lowman (1-3) struck out six, walked two and didn’t give up a hit in his relief effort. Starting pitcher Griffin Krieg gave up four runs on six hits in five innings of work.
The Generals (21-15) got two hits each from Eugene Vasquez and Garrett Russini, and Mike McClellan had two RBI and two runs scored.
Jerry Downs hit his fourth homer of the season for Winchester (14-22).
Waynesboro is back in action Sunday at Charles Town (20-15), which is a half-game behind the Generals in the Valley League standings.
Bats wake up for Waynesboro in 12-1 win over Winchester
Down 1-0 and hitless entering the fourth, the Waynesboro Generals got untracked, scoring runs in each of the last six innings in a 12-1 blowout of the Winchester Royals Monday night.
The Generals (16-11) had 16 hits on the night, including three from Steve Pollakov and two each from Travis Naraine, Michael McClellan and Dre Gleason, and the first homer of the season from Eugene Vasquez.
All of this was in support of starting pitcher Micah Gorman (4-1), who gave up a run on four hits in seven innings of work.
With the win, Waynesboro moves to within two games of first place Harrisonburg in the Valley League standings.
The Generals return home Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Kate Collins Field to host Covington.
Waynesboro wins at Winchester, 6-0
Four Waynesboro pitchers limited Winchester to five hits, Thomas Stallings hit a two-run homer, and Corbin Lucas delivered a clutch two-RBI double to push the Generals to a 6-0 win over the Royals Wednesday night.
Tyler Fox (freshman, Nebraska-Omaha) earned the win for Waynesboro, giving up three hits in five innings to improve to 2-2 on the season.
Lucas (sophomore, Shenandoah) and Tyler Bocock (sophomore, Stetson) each had three hits for Waynesboro. The home run by Stallings (sophomore, VMI) was his first of the season.
The win improves Waynesboro to 11-14 on the season and gives the Generals a two-game edge for the fourth and final playoff spot in the South Division over idle Rockbridge.
The Valley League is off for the Fourth of July. Waynesboro returns to action Friday at home against Strasburg. The game is the WSVA Waynesboro Generals Game of the Week. First pitch is at 7 p.m. Join Chris Graham for the pregame show on 550AM at 6:30 p.m.
Waynesboro Generals rally, hold off Winchester, 11-5
The relief corps, led by Taylor Sandefur, picked up a rough start for Ben Krusen, and the Waynesboro Generals rallied from a 5-0 first-inning deficit to beat Winchester 11-5 Wednesday night.
The Royals knocked Krusen (sophomore, North Central) out of the game before the righthander could even record an out in the first.
Sandefur (junior, Western Carolina) got out of the first, and then the offense picked up Krusen, touching up Gavin Free for eight runs in the bottom of the inning.
Leadoff man JoJo Woods (junior, Central Florida) led the inning off with a single, and came around to score on a Ben Boykin (junior, College of Charleston) double to cut the deficit to 5-1.
Tyler Bocock (sophomore, Stetson) singled to put runners on the corners with still nobody out. Terrance Dedrick (junior, Auburn) and Roche Woodard (sophomore, Florida International) were each hit by pitches, and Sikes Orvis (junior, Ole Miss) singled to left to make it 5-3.
An RBI single by Anthony Iacomini (junior, Cortland State) cut the lead to 5-4, and a sacrifice fly from Julius Gaines (sophomore, Florida International) scored Woodard from third to tie the game at 5-5.
Woods walked in his second plate appearance of the inning to reload the bases, and then Boykin followed with a two-out, two-run single to give the Generals the lead at 7-5.
Bocock then reached on an error that allowed Woods to score the eighth run of the inning before a Dedrick grounder to short finally ended the inning, which went 44 minutes all told.
From there, it was rather uneventful. Waynesboro tacked on a run in the fourth on an RBI single by Brian Beard (freshman, Old Dominion), another in the sixth on another RBI single by Beard and then a final insurance run in the eighth on an RBI single by Thomas Stallings (sophomore, VMI).
Sandefur gave up just two hits in five scoreless innings of relief to pick up his first win of the 2013 Valley League season.
David Spinosa (sophomore, Columbia) and Terrance Dedrick (junior, Auburn) closed the game with a combined four scoreless innings.
Waynesboro (6-7) is three and a half games behind Staunton (10-4) in the South Division standings. The Generals will host Woodstock (9-2) on Thursday at Linco Park at Kate Collins Field.
The game will be broadcast on the Internet at www.WaynesboroGenerals.net. Join Kris Neal from WKDW-900AM and Chris Graham for the action beginning at 6:55 p.m. First pitch is at 7 p.m.
Generals get W in matchup of division leaders
Waynesboro got home runs from Julian Ridings and Jacob Hoyle, and the Generals bullpen contributed three and a third innings of scoreless, hitless relief to push the South Division leaders to an 8-6 win at North Division leader Winchester Monday night.
It was a wild game early on, with Waynesboro scoring twice in the top of the first and putting up a threespot in the top of the fourth, with the big hit in that inning a go-ahead two-run single by Devin Smith, to lead 6-5 after four. Read more
Generals rout Winchester, 14-1
When Brandon Murray breaks out of a slump, he doesn’t mess around.
“Not since I was 12 years old and playing on the little field,” Murray said of the last three-homer game he’d had before Wednesday night’s outburst that keyed a 14-1 win for Waynesboro over Winchester.
Murray (junior, College of Charleston) knocked in the first six of those runs with his three homers – a three-run shot in the first, a two-run home run in the second and a solo homer in the fifth. Read more
