Baseball:
Things went exactly as expected when the first place and highest scoring team in the Palomares went head-to-head with the league’s cellar dwellers.
Ayala jumped out to a 12-0 lead in the top of the second, and they cruised to a 12-3 victory at Diamond Bar.
The Bulldogs out-hit the Brahmas, 15-2, and none of the three DBHS runs in the seventh were earned.
Ayala is now 7-0 in league games, and they’ve outscored their opponents (GHS, Walnut & DBHS) by a combined margin of 79-9.
Of those nine runs allowed, only four were earned.
Caleb Trugman went 6 1/3 innings, and he was charged with three unearned runs on one hit.
Trugman issued one walk and registered nine strikeouts.
Nolan Chuang got the final two outs, including one via strikeout.
Apolo Yonemoto had an RBI double in the seventh.
Nathan Nakamura had an RBI fielder’s choice and scored.
Dominic Tortorelli singled and scored.
Quinton Mendoza got roughed up for nine runs (seven earned) on five hits over one inning of work.
Mendoza walked two and fanned a pair of Bulldogs.
Jaden Valenzuela walked, singled, tripled, scored a pair of runs and drove in one.
Easton Sarmiento went 3-for-3 with two walks, a double and a pair of runs.
Eric Hernandez singled and drove in two runs on a pair of sac flies.
Aiden Granados walked, scored twice and had a pair of RBIs.
Codey Brown went 2-for-4 with a walk, double, two runs and two RBIs.
Elijah Duarte singled and doubled.
Brody Gomez singled, scored and drove in a run.
Dylan Wood went 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
Jonah Boyd singled, scored and drove in a run on a sac fly.
Aidan Erlandsen went 2-for-5 with a run and one RBI.
Box Score:
A: 9-3-0-0-0-0-0-(12)
DB: 0-0-0-0-0-0-3-(3)
Win: Caleb Trugman
Loss: Quinton Mendoza
3B: Jaden Valenzuela (A)
2B: Easton Sarmiento (A), Elijah Duarte (A), Codey Brown (A); Apolo Yonemoto (DB)
Tuesday’s Palomares League Scores:
Ayala 12, Diamond Bar 3
Bonita 5, Walnut 3
Glendora 5, Claremont 2
Palomares League Schedule:
Ayala (11-6, 7-0)
Bonita (11-7, 6-1)
Glendora (10-6, 4-3)
Claremont (7-8-1, 3-4)
Walnut (5-11, 3-4)
Diamond Bar (4-14, 0-7)
Thursday’s Schedule:
Diamond Bar at Ayala
Walnut at Bonita
Glendora at Claremont
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