The Santa Barbara Foresters dominated every facet of the game en route to a 10-0 victory over the BTL Hornets in their second pool play game of the NBC World Series on Saturday in Wichita, Kansas.
The Foresters registered a mercy-rule victory for the second straight day as the offense exploded once again for 12 hits, while AJ Krodel cruised through five scoreless innings for the shortened complete game.
Santa Barbara will continue pool play on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. PST and will clinch a bye into the quarterfinals with a victory.
As for Saturday night’s game, the Foresters opened the scoring in the top of the second thanks to a wild pitch and a two-out, RBI double off the bat of Caden Miller to go up 2-0.
Easton Moomau extended the lead to 3-0 in the top of the third on an RBI single before Santa Barbara dropped five runs in the fourth to pull away.
Mic Paul got the inning started with a booming solo home run, leading to an RBI single by Miller, a two-run base knock by Xavier Esquer and an RBI fielder’s choice off the bat of Moomau.
The Foresters rounded out the scoring in the top of the fifth with RBI singles by Miller and Moomau, who each had three hits and drove in three runs.
Krodel then secured the shutout win in the bottom of the fifth, finishing off five strong innings where he allowed just three hits and struck out three without surrendering a walk.
