Duracell Nationals 16

Snicker’s Mets 7


The Duracell Nationals faced the Snicker’s Mets on Wednesday, in a game to decide whether the Nationals would have home field advantage in their playoff game on Saturday against the Million Air Royals.


Nationals pitcher, Brandon Murray, gave up three runs early in the game, only to have Mets’ pitcher Dineko Bethel give one back in the bottom of the first.


The Nationals’ offense began to heat up in the second, however, as Stefano Pral and Herman Maycock recorded singles, and Brandon Murray a double. Scott Brown, Corbin Abila, and Hilton Bowleg loaded the bases on walks. David Sweeting’s deep drive to left centre field for a triple scored three runs to make the score, 7-3.


Sweeting replaced Murray on the mound in the second and retired the first three Mets hitters in short order. Pral and teammate Nathan Cartwright got on base in the top of the third inning and the Nationals’ offense caught fire again. Maycock’s hit drove in another National run, and Brown followed suit with an RBI-producing ground-out. The Mets managed another run in the bottom of the third to make the score 9-4.


Abila took over pitching duties in the fourth inning from Sweeting, and kept Mets hitters corralled for only three runs over the remaining three innings.


Bowleg led off the sixth inning for the Nationals with a walk, followed by a Sweeting double that drove in another run. Sweeting then stole third and came home on a fielding error by the Mets’ shortstop off a ball hit by Pral, to widen the Nationals’ lead.


Cartwright and Abila both followed up with walks. Sam Wrinkle recorded a base hit that drove in another run, while Bowleg walked with the bases loaded for the Nationals’ final run of the game.