\u00a0ROBINSON CREEK \u2014 The rain was coming.<\/p>\n
Before it got there, Shelby Valley used a big third inning to pick up a 4-1 win over Letcher Central before the game was called due to weather.<\/p>\n
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In the bottom of the fourth, Bryce Bentley hit a leadoff single to get things going. Riley Newsome followed by laying down a sacrifice bunt to move Bentley to second. Lincoln Taylor followed with an RBI single to score Bentley and give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
With one out and one on in the bottom of the fourth, Kobe Fields drew a walk. Gavin Tackett reached on an error to load the bases.<\/p>\n
With the bases loaded and one out, Jake Mullins stole home to push the lead to 2-0. Braden Harris followed with an RBI single to push the lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n
Letcher Central got a run back in the top of the fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With one out, Kolby Watts singled. Koby Johnson was hit-by-a-pitch. Watts and Johnson followed with a double steal to put both runners in scoring position. Caanan Herrell hit into a fielder\u2019s choice, but Watts scored to cut the lead to 3-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With two outs, Dawson Kincer singled to keep the inning alive, but Shelby Valley got a pop out to end the top of the fifth.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats got the run back in the home half of the inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Evan Bell drew a leadoff walk. With one out, Bentley singled. Newsome followed with a walk to load the bases. Taylor hit a sacrifice fly RBI to push the lead to 4-1.<\/p>\n
The game ended soon after due to weather in the top of the sixth.<\/p>\n
Shelby Valley pitcher Colton Varney picked up the win. He tossed an excellent game as he went five innings and gave up one run on three hits and a walk, while striking out three batters.<\/p>\n
Quinton Williams suffered the loss for Letcher Central. Williams went four innings and gave up three runs (two earned) on three hits and one walk, while striking out five batters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jayden Wright tossed one inning of work for the Cougars. He gave up one run on one hit and two walks, with no strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0ROBINSON CREEK \u2014 The rain was coming. Before it got there, Shelby Valley used a big third inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2351,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,3696,3382,2330,19,2310,2328,2304,2308,4,2305,2303,2322,2307,185,2324,2560,2350,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-24504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-base-on-balls","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-baseball-competitions","13":"tag-baseball-events","14":"tag-baseball-finals","15":"tag-baseball-games","16":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","17":"tag-bunt-baseball","18":"tag-error-baseball","19":"tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-mlb-playoffs","27":"tag-mlb-postseason","28":"tag-october-sporting-events","29":"tag-outdoor-sports","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-events","32":"tag-stolen-base","33":"tag-strikeout","34":"tag-team-sports","35":"tag-turf-sports","36":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}