LAKE WALES, Fla. - The Royals had their best day at the plate this year on Friday driving in a combined 38 runs during their double-header sweep of the New College of Florida Mighty Banyans. Warner recorded a season high of 6 homers in their 24-to-5 win in game 1 and followed that up by taking game 2 by a score of 14-to-8 while knocking 2 more out-of-the-park.
Game 1: Royals Win 24-5
The Royals had an absolutely dominant performance in game 1 of their SUN Conference series against the Mighty Banyans plating 24 runs on 17 hits. Friday's first game saw the Royals record new single game season highs for runs scored (24), hits (17), RBIs (19), Doubles (6), and Home Runs (6). Game 1 of the double-header also marked the first time this season that the Royals had two different players record multi-home run games as
Ethan Pues and
Dawson Schumann both hit 2 homers in the win. Warner also recorded a new season high for runs scored in a singled Inning when they scored 11 runs in the 2nd Inning. The Royals' 2nd Inning was bookended with Home Runs starting off with a
Paddy Smith 2 run homer and ended with a solo home run by
Ethan Pues while
Samuel Blanco,
Gabriel Rodriguez,
Adriel Torres-Gonzalez also recorded RBIs in the massive 11 run Inning for Warner.
Warner kept their foot on the gas in the 3rd Inning scoring 9 more runs to give the Royals a 20-2 lead.
Dawson Schumann executed the rare feat of hitting 2 home runs in the same Inning on Friday when he hit a solo homer and a 3 run homer to score the 1st and last runs of the Inning for the Royals. Pues also hit his 2nd home run of the game in the 3rd when he hit a 2 run homer to deep left-center field after
Timothy Dunn recorded the other RBI in the Inning for the Royals.
Timothy Dunn recorded his own 2 run home run in the 4th Inning before Torres-Gonzalez and
Paddy Smith scored the Royals last 2 RBIs in the 5th Inning to get the Royals to 24 runs. Warner saw 6 different players record RBIs and 9 different Royals score a run on their way to secure their largest margin of victory of the season so far.
Austin Vakiener earned his 3rd win of the season after getting the start and recording 5 Innings pitched and allowed only 3 runs on 6 hits while striking out 3 to improve his record to 3-0.
Cooper Hamilton and
Drew Owen closed out the game for the Royals as Hamilton shut out the Banyans and allowed only 1 hit while Owen allowed only 2 runs on 2 hits while striking out 2 to help the Royals secure their 22nd win of the season.
Warner Game 1 Stat Leaders -
HRs: Ethan Pues &
Dawson Schumann (2)
Hits: Timothy Dunn &
Adriel Torres-Gonzalez (3)
RBIs: Dawson Schumann &
Paddy Smith (4)
Ks: Austin Vakiener (3)
Game 2: Royals Win 14-8
The Royals stayed hot in game 2 of Friday's double-header driving in 14 more runs on 13 hits and saw 6 different Royals record at least 1 RBI in the win. Torres-Gonzalez got the scoring started for the Royals in the top of the 1st win 2 RBI double to give Warner an early 2-0 lead. NCF bounced back with their biggest Inning of the day to take a 3-2 lead after the 1st before the Royals retook control of the game in the 2nd.
Samuel Blanco put the Royals back ahead with his 1st home run of the year, a 3 run homer to left field, which was followed up by a solo homer off the bat of
Dawson Schumann, his 3rd homer of the day. Warner added to their lead in the 3rd Inning when Blanco earned an RBI hit-by-pitch and an RBI hit by
Gabriel Rodriguez to give the Royals an 8-to-3 lead. The Royals offense exploded for another big inning in the 5th that started off with a Blanco recording his 5th RBI of the day, a new season high for the Junior catcher. Warner also saw RBIs recorded by Rodriguez, Schumann,
Danny Garcia, and
Jacob Gumieny to get the Royals up to 14 runs.
Warner only needed 2 pitchers on their way to secure the double-header sweep with
Easton Nunez earning his 5th win of the season while
Aidan Murphy threw a solid 3 Innings to close out the win for the Royals. Nunez threw 4 Innings and allowed 5 runs on 4 hits while striking out 1 and Murphy allowed only 3 runs on 6 hits while also recording 1 strike out in the Royals victory.
The Royals will look to continue to build upon Friday's impressive showing when they complete the series tomorrow with another double-header.
Warner Game 2 Stat Leaders -
HRs: Samuel Blanco &
Dawson Schumann (1)
Hits: Danny Garcia (3)
RBIs: Samuel Blanco (5)
Up Next:
The Royals will wrap up their series at
New College of Florida tomorrow with a double-header that is scheduled to begin at
Noon and end with game 4 of the series scheduled to start at
3:00pm.
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