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Editors note: This article did not appear in last week’s edition due to lack of space. We regret the omission.
With two-thirds of the Bambino Little League season in the record books, the Yankees and the Orioles are tied for first place. Both teams have 7-1 records, and four games remain on the schedule.
Yankees 7, Orioles 3
On Saturday, June 2, the Yankees bumped the Orioles from sole possession of first place while handing the O’s their first loss of the season after a hard-fought 7-3 win at Horseshoe Hills field.
In what many of those in attendance saw as the “game of the year,” the Yankees held the powerful Orioles at bay with a strong pitching performance from Alan Groves and Donald Dorrell.
Groves, according to Coach Donald Dorrell Sr., pitched “brilliantly” until he developed stiffness in his throwing arm in the third inning. Donald Dorrell came on in relief and pitched the final four innings for the Yankees’ victory.
Both pitchers helped their own cause at the plate as well, collecting a home run each.
Josh Hitt also pitched a good game for the Orioles, striking out nine while walking only one batter. Unfortunately, the Yankees’ pitchers were too strong, allowing only one Yankee to reach base safely after the third inning.
The Yankees’ first baseman, Mark Jenkins, made a beautiful diving catch in the top of the sixth to save a possible run.
The two teams now share first place, and 7-1 records on the season, as they head into the home stretch. Their schedule includes a rematch on Tuesday, June 12 at Stuart Field in Amissville.
Yankees 17, Astros 4
In a game that was much closer than the score indicates, the Yankees downed the Astros last week, 17-4.
The Astros scored first on several walks and a hit batter, which brought Chris Dodson across the plate.
But the Yankees quickly answered with two runs of their own in the second on singles by Tim O’Meara and Jimmy Pennell.
With the Yankees pitcher still a little wild, the Astros evened the score in the bottom of the second when another hit batter brought the tying run across the plate, aided by some sloppy defensive work by the Yankees.
In the third the Yankees moved ahead with two more runs on a home run by Donald Dorrell and a double
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