WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Warner takes game 2 of the Sun Conference tournament. After a long lightning delay, the game started back up at 9:10 pm last night.
This season the Royals have faced the Bobcats four times prior to last night. In the last five games, the record is 4-1 in favor of Warner. The initial game time was 12:30 pm and due to lightning delays, the game didn't start until 5:10 pm.
Tyler Brown doubled through the right side in the top of the 1
st registered an RBI scoring
Jan Martinez to make the game 1-0. St. Thomas answered back with a 3-run home run in the bottom of the 1
st by Mondejar to take the lead. In the bottom of the 2
nd, the Bobcats scored some runs to make the game 6-1 St. Thomas on top.
In the top of the 3
rd,
Logan Flood singled to right field listed an RBI scoring
Tyler Brown to improve the game to 6-2.
David Torres singles to right field recorded an RBI scoring
John Pichman.
Brian Spradlin singled through the right side registered 2 RBIs scoring Torres and Flood to cut the lead to one. Martinez hit a grand slam to take the lead 9-6, recorded 4 RBIs scoring
Taylor Briggs,
Devin Frost, and
Josh Strickland.
In the bottom of the 4
th and 5
th inning, the Bobcats scored 2 runs to cut the lead. In the bottom of the 5
th, Pichman hit his 19
th home run of the season to left-center for a grand slam registered 4 RBIs scoring Brown, Martinez, and Briggs to make the game 13-8. Back-to-back home runs for the Royals when Flood hit a home run to left field. Spradlin singled to right field listed an RBI scoring Torres.
In the bottom of the 5
th, St. Thomas scored 2 runs. In the top of the 6
th, Spradlin doubled to left field recorded 2 RBIs scoring Strickland and Torres to improve the game to 17-10. Bobcats scored 5 runs in the 6
th and 7
th. In the top of the 8
th,
Daniel Coca registered an RBI by a sacrifice fly to right-center scoring Flood to make it 18 runs for the Royals.
The Royals had 5 pitchers throw last night.
John Bean started on the mound for the Royals, he pitched 2 innings just before the weather delay.
Elijah Garner went in relief for Bean, he pitched 2.1 innings.
Luke Myers went in relief for Garner in the 5
th inning, he pitched for 1.2 innings and faced 9 batters.
Liam Felix pitched 2 innings as well, he went in relief for Myers in the 7
th inning and took the win off of the mound. Felix improved his overall record to 2-3. Briggs closed the game for Warner and collected his 4
th save of the season.
The Royals will play the winner of game 3 tonight at 7:30 pm. Tune in to the live broadcast, live stats will also be available. The link can be found via the Baseball schedule.