The 12th straight win for the Santa Barbara Foresters was a hitting parade.
All 10 Santa Barbara batters got a hit, led by Tyler Hardman’s three, in a 13-2 rout of the SoCal Catch on Thursday in La Mirada.
The Foresters trailed 1-0 before Easton Murrell drove in Chase Illig for the tying run and Kameron Guangorena’s sacrifice fly brought home Murrell for the go-ahead run in the second inning.
Santa Barbara made it 4-1 in the fourth. Hardman started the inning with a single, Brandon Zaragoza and Logan Allen reached base on consecutive bunt singles and Ryan Cash forced in Hardman when he was took a pitch on the ankle. Zaragoza scored on a sacrfice fly by John Jensen.
Following a Catch homer in the sixth inning, Michael Neustifter belted a solo blast to left field for a 5-2 lead. Two batters later Guangorena hit a two-run blast. Guangorena just graduated from St. John Bosco High in Bellflower and was a 36-round draft pick of the Toronto Blue Jays
Leading 7-2, Santa Barbara’s bats continued to pound Catch pitching in the eighth and ninth innings. Parker Upton smoked a triple down the right-field line to score Allen, who singled and stole second. Upton came home on a wild pitch.
In the ninth, Zaragoza and Allen and RBI singles, and two more runs scored on a groundout and wild pitch.
Starting pitcher Michael Hobbs threw five strong innings to pick up th win.
The Foresters are back at Pershing Park on Friday, playing the Catch at 6 p.m.