Rattlers RBI earned their 5th straight win as they played under the lights on Friday night at Henninger High School.
Carter Henderson started on the mound for the Rattlers. He went for 2 innings, giving up 1 run on 1 hit with 1 walk and 1 strike out.
JD led 1-0 until the wheels came off in the bottom of the 2nd inning as their pitchers struggled. There was a 5-run rule in effect on this night which held scoring to a max of 5 runs per inning. The Rattlers tallied 5 runs in both the 2nd and 3rd innings. The 7 hits and 5 walks JD gave up led to 12 runs over 4 innings. The game ended in the top of the 5th inning due to the 10-run mercy rule with a score of 12-1, Rattlers.
Devin Christensen, Kenton Cochran and Lucas Thelen all pitched one inning in relief. They combined to give up zero runs off of zero hits.
Lucas Thelen, Evan Rumpel, Jacob Sadowski, Sean Bombard, Kenton Cochran, Jadien Gunnip and Alan Victoriano notched hits for the Rattlers.
Michael Wilkins (2), Sean Bombard (2), Kenton Cochran (2), Nicholas Capece, Lucas Thelen, Devin Christensen, Carter Henderson, Jadien Gunnip, Alan Victoriano, and Evan Rumpel all tallied runs for the Rattlers.
Stolen bases were gotten by Michael Wilkins (3), Capece, Rumpel, Sadowski, Christensen, Bombard, Cochran, Gunnip and Ryan Victoriano.
Lucas Thelen earned an inside-the-park homerun by running hard on a deep hit in the third inning.
MVP on the night was Lucas Thelen for his exciting home run.