COLUSA — Sometimes it’s just not your day and that was pretty much the case for the Middletown Mustangs in a bitter 5-3 setback to the Colusa Redhawks on Friday afternoon in Colusa.
The non-league varsity baseball game marked the second meeting this season between the two teams. Middletown (1-2) dropped a 13-3 decision at home to Colusa (5-0) in its season opener March 16 at Wes Martin Field in Middletown, a game that was close until the final two innings. In the rematch Friday, it was Emanuel Frias hitting a three-run homer to left in the bottom of the fifth inning to snap a 2-2 tie.
Frias only got to the plate in the fifth because of a Middletown error with two outs that extended the inning.
“Errors were costly,” Middletown head coach Jon Hoogendoorn said of the Mustangs’ four defensive miscues on the day compared to none for the Redhawks, who have won all five of their games this season against Lake County competition (2-0 against Middletown, 2-0 against Clear Lake and 1-0 against Kelseyville). “Every mistake we made hurt us.”
And that would be both mental and physical errors, according to Hoogendoorn, citing a baserunning miscue in the top of the second that led to an inning-ending triple play. The Mustangs had already scored once in the second to tie the game at 1-1 and had runners at first and third when Luke Hoogendoorn hit a line drive to the pitcher that was dropped. The pitcher still had time to throw on to second base for the force while the throw to first base completed a double play. When the Middletown runner at third base broke late for the plate, the throw home beat him there, completing the 1-6-3-2 triple killing.
“Just silly stuff,” Hoogendoorn said. “We were just shooting ourselves in the feet. It was a little bit of everything.”
That the Mustangs finished with six hits to only two for the Redhawks didn’t help Hoogendoorn’s mood.
“Other than the home run we gave up just one other hit,” he said. “And we still lost.”
Bryan Riehl, working in relief of starting pitcher Dax Green, took the loss after yielding Frias’ three-run homer in the fifth. Green worked the first three innings and left the mound trailing 2-1. Green struck out one and walked four in his three innings on the mound. Riehl struck out three and walked three.
Tanner Pachie went 3-for-4 for at the plate for the Mustangs, Cole Ketchum went 2-for-3, and Zach Dubois added a RBI double. Luke Hoogendoorn also drove in a run.
Middletown’s schedule won’t get any easier next week as the Mustangs visit Santa Rosa High School on Wednesday at 4 p.m. The Mustangs return home next Saturday to host Montgomery at 4 p.m.
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