Tokay High\u2019s varsity baseball team tallied an extra-innings victory in an unconventional manner on Monday at Tokay\u2019s new baseball facility.<\/p>\n
Tied 1-1 with Sierra in the top of the eighth inning, an altercation after the last strikeout left several Sierra players and one Tokay player ejected, and the Timberwolves didn\u2019t have enough players to continue the game, resulting in a Tokay win by forfeit.<\/p>\n
Up to that point, the teams battled to a 1-1 draw after the high-school standard seven innings, with Tokay\u2019s run coming in the second inning and Sierra\u2019s in the top of the seventh. Both teams threatened at other points, but were unable to push more runs across the plate.<\/p>\n
Sophomore starter Tiger Eang went four innings, allowing a hit and two walks while striking out three. That hit and two walks came in the top of the first inning, when Eang loaded the bases and then escaped the jam by inducing a fly ball to right fielder Brody Steele.<\/p>\n
Tokay\u2019s Cooper Whatley responded in the bottom of the frame with a leadoff single, then advanced to third on a Myka Apalit single, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Evan Dodero.<\/p>\n
That inning accounted for the majority of the early-game action. Tokay\u2019s Lucas Haire advanced to second base in the second inning before he was gunned down in a pickle, and Sierra\u2019s Riley Kane reached on a fielder\u2019s choice and stole second in the fourth before Eang ended the threat with a popup and a strikeout.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are starting to mature,\u201d said Tokay coach Scott Campbell. \u201cWe made some mental base running mistakes and made some situational mistakes that could have resulted in a few more runs, but we didn\u2019t execute and that cost us the opportunity to add a few more runs, which we have to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sierra put a Ryan Reyes in scoring position in the fifth, this time against Tokay reliever Lucas Haire. But when Tokay second baseman Gavin Severson bobbled a ground ball, Reyes tried to score all the way from second, and the throw from Severson arrived just in time and on target for the third out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis group is very coachable,\u201d Campbell said, \u201cso I\u2019m confident that we will clean these things up and continue to improve and continue to become more competitive as we progress through our season.<\/p>\n
Sierra started the seventh inning with a strikeout and a fly out, leaving Tokay an out away from a 1-0 victory, but Reyes walked, advanced to third on a Fabian Fuentes single, and scored on a single by Chad Simas Jr. A strikeout ended the inning.<\/p>\n
Tokay\u2019s response came 90 feet away from ending the game when Brandon Benov walked, moved to second on a Jake Sell walk, and took third on a sacrifice fly by Dodero. But another fly out ended the threat, and the game went to extras.<\/p>\n
With Apalit on the mound for Tokay, Sierra started with a single by Josh Graves, who stole second. But Apalit then struck out three straight. But before Tokay got a chance, an argument between the last strikeout victim and Tokay\u2019s defense led to an altercation, with the umpire jumping in the middle and ejecting several Sierra players.<\/p>\n
After the confusion died down, Sierra coach Travis Thompson told Campbell near home plate that he was out of players. The game was called, and awarded to Tokay by forfeit.<\/p>\n
Tokay athletic director Jeff Johnston said after the game that officials determined that six Sierra players were ejected for leaving the bench area during an on-field altercation, an automatic ejection per CIF rules, and Tokay\u2019s catcher was ejected during the altercation. He added that those could change upon review.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Campbell said none of his players were facing suspension after the fact because they didn\u2019t instigate. The Sac-Joaquin Section website listed one Sierra player facing a Category 2 misconduct.<\/p>\n
Tokay (2-2) will play at Tracy on Wednesday, and on Friday will get into the Downey Tournament in Modesto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokay High\u2019s varsity baseball team tallied an extra-innings victory in an unconventional manner on Monday at Tokay\u2019s new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2330,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,35196,2307,185,2324,2350,2311,2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-591895","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-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-events","13":"tag-baseball-finals","14":"tag-baseball-games","15":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","16":"tag-baseball-teams","17":"tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-mlb-playoffs","27":"tag-mlb-postseason","28":"tag-october-in-sports","29":"tag-outdoor-sports","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-events","32":"tag-strikeout","33":"tag-team-sports","34":"tag-turf-sports"},"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\/591895","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=591895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}