Red Sox Blue cemented their position on top of the Wagga Baseball ladder with a 6-0 win over Wagga Giants last Sunday.
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Red Sox Blue shut out the Giants in the top of the table clash at Jubilee Park.
The game started as a pitchers duel as both teams were held scoreless after the first two innings, with Red Sox breaking their duck in the third after some good base running by Mark Sleaman to create a run from nothing.
After another scoreless innings, Red Sox were able to take advantage of a Giants error and open the game up with four more runs before scoring their final run in the last innings.
The Giants battled hard but were unable to string together hits to do any damage, only managing a total of three hits for the afternoon, provided by Warwick Pethybridge, Reid Kemba and Dale Abbott.
Kemna also pitched strongly for the Giants with 10 strikeouts through five innings of work, the bats just failing to produce anything to keep the game in hand.
For Red Sox, Mark Sleaman pitched very well, going the distance and controlling the game with mostly soft contact off the Giants bats. This was the first shutout of his baseball career.
Yoshinori Adachi was heavily involved with a number of solid defensive plays to preserve the scoreless outcome.
Adachi also managed two hits, the most by any player in the game. The only other Red Sox hits were provided by Mark Sleaman, Chris Phillips and Liam Nesbitt.
Meantime, Red Sox Red knocked over The Jackals 12-4 in the first game on Sunday.
Red Sox batted well and only failed to score in one innings.
They were led by Ricky Humphries who belted two home runs and were well supported by Shoun Piper with three hits (two singles and a double), Adam Hoogers and Tony Simmons, who both managed two hits.
Steven Leadbeatter pitched the full game for Red Sox and mostly held the Jackals line-up in check, aided by a slick double play by Corey Brown in his first game with the team.
For The Jackals, James McGeachie managed two singles, while the only other hits came from Michael Scutti (double), Derrick Kelly, Dan Hunter, and Grant Gonsal (all singles).
They also managed their own double play orchestrated by Dan Hunter at third base.
