AF Angels versus PG Brewers in Timp Colt League Baseball

Timp Sports Weekly

June 2, 2015

Publisher's Message

Now that the regular high school sports season is completely over, we're now going to be turning our focus to summer baseball leagues. One of them is the Timp Colt League, involving teams from Herriman, American Fork, and Pleasant Grove. In this issue, we look at a May 29 game played between the American Fork Angels and the Pleasant Grove Brewers. Let's take a swing at an account of that game.

Dean Von Memmott

Publisher

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PG Brewer Bubble Up 7-6 Win Over AF Angels in Colt League Play May 29

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

In a Timp Colt League game played at American Fork's Rotary Park May 29, the Pleasant Grove Brewers made things unheavenly for the American Fork Angels by coming from behind to beat them 7-6.

For a while, it looked as though the Angels would zap Pleasant Grove, even though it had players from the Ferocious Viking baseball team that had recently won the State 5-A championship at the expense of the Bingham Miners, AKA the Pickers.

The game's first inning created that impression. After it had opened with Brewer Hayden Wall flying out into left, Justin Henry, a very close relative of Ferocious Viking baseball coach Darin "That's Bush League" Henry, doubled to the left-field fence. However, pitcher Taylor Sabotka struck out Logan Bice and caused Weston Barnhardt to fly out into right before Henry could score a run.

In the bottom of the inning, the Angels became really hot in scoring. Singling to third, Carson Daniels soon came home on a passed ball, stirring up a five-run rally, fueled by three Brewer errors. Braden Griffiths hit the inning's only one-run single to climax the rally.

Taking over pitching duties, Henry held the Angels scoreless until the bottom of the third. Meanwhile, in the top of the second, Barnhardt singled into left, and aided by a Keller "Killa" Atwood single,  Barnhardt soon came on home on a passed ball during two outs. Sabotka struck out Nash Freeman, a "distant relative" of Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman, to retire the Brewers.

They picked up another run in the top  of the third. It opened with Cody Mayland singling into right. On two outs, Austin "Super Powers" Butler singled in Mayland to cut the lead to 5-2.

Hitting a left-field single in the bottom of the third, Grayson "Squirrel" Grandly stole home on two outs. Henry didn't let the Angels make any more runs after the third.

Hitting a one-out double in the top of the fourth, Cambell "Donk" Donkers tried stealing home, but he got tagged at the plate. Donkers threw his helmet down in protest of the call, and the plate umpire threw him out of the game. The Brewers didn't let the ejection shake their moral. With the bases loaded, Freeman singled in a run. Tristan Makin doubled in two runs, and Wall hit a two-run triple to give PG a 7-6 lead.

Angel Taylor Maugg hit a one-out double in the bottom of the fourth, but Pleasant Grove socked American Fork with a double play that it never recovered from.