Diamond Bar comes back to stun Los Altos Conquerors
April 29, 2014
Losing 9-1 to the Los Altos Conquerors on April 15, the Diamond Bar baseball team enacted revenge on the Conquerors, coming out victorious 6-5 on Friday as junior outfielder Brett Tweedie scored the game-winning run after the LA shortstop wildly error to first base. The Brahmas now have a 12-7 overall record with a 3-2 Hacienda League record.
After pitching four scoreless innings, junior Gerardo Ramirez looked as if he was going to pitch another shutout. However, Ramirez started to experience fatigue and his pitches lost speed and spin. The Conquerors took advantage of this and scored three straight runs in the top of the fourth inning. At the bottom of the fourth, the Brahmas responded by scoring a run after a LA error.
Tied 3-3 in the top of the fifth inning, a Conqueror batter found a perfect pitch and hit a two-run homerun off of Ramirez.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, senior infielder Austin Manzani hit a RBI double, scoring Duenas home. Heading into the seventh inning, the Conquerors were leading 5-4.
With two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, it looked like the Brahmas were going home with another loss. However, with two runners on base, Ramirez hit a clutch RBI single tying the score and sending the game into extra innings.
Tweedie hit a double into left field. With one strike left, junior infielder Jacob Cooke hit an easy ground ball to the LA shortstop. However, the Conqueror infielder threw an erratic ball over the first baseman. Tweedie took advantage of this mistake and scored the game-winning run.
