It’s not often that you see a tie in baseball but that’s exactly what happened Thursday afternoon on the CCA campus when the Patriots faced the Deerfield-Windsor Knights. The score was tied 5-5 when an afternoon thunderstorm rolled in, resulting in umpires calling the game at the end of the seventh inning. The game was the third straight home game negatively affected by the weather this season.
Though there was no winner, the big takeaway is the Patriots battled from a 5-0 deficit to tie the game before the showers came. The Knights jumped out to a 5-0 lead after scoring one in the second and four in the third. CCA answered with one in the third on a sacrifice fly by Sam Ables that scored Tyson Crosby.
In the sixth, CCA plated four runs to knot the score at five. Gray McLean led off with a single. Thomas Gentry walked to put runners on first and second. They both stole bases, putting two in scoring position for the Patriots with nobody out. Blake Bryant walked to load the bases. Jonathan Rutland also walked to score a run. With Landon Williams at the plate, Gentry scored on a passed ball. Then Williams singled to score Cayden Hall. With one out, Skyler Woods hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Rutland for the tying run.
Neither team was able to score in the seventh inning. Then the skies opened and the rain came. Officials called the game in a 5-5 tie. The Patriots scored their five runs on just three hits – two by McLean and one by Williams. Rutland (2 1/3 innings), Gentry (2 2/3 innings), and Bryant (two innings) all took turns on the mound for CCA.
Following a 9-2 loss to Frederica a week ago, the Patriots are now 0-1-1 on the season. They play First Preparatory Christian Academy in Douglas on Tuesday at 4:30.