T-Birds Commit 11 Errors in Doubleheader Split With Bobcats

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The 2A EvCo baseball pecking order had a twist thrown its way Friday, as Aberdeen blitzed Tumwater early in the second game of a doubleheader en route to a 10-1 win, splitting the twin bill after the T-Birds took the first game 12-4.

Aberdeen came into the matchup 1-3 in league play, having split against Centralia and gotten swept by Shelton. Tumwater, the defending state champs, hadn’t lost yet to a 2A foe, and stretched its winning streak to six games with the win to start Friday.

But then the T-Birds ran into Aberdeen’s Hunter Eisele, who had a thing or two to say about that.

Alex Overbay banged a triple to set Tumwater up in the top of the first — the T-Birds were designated as the road team for Game 2 — and came home to score on a wild pitch. But the Thunderbirds wouldn’t manage much of anything the rest of the way on Eisele, who finished with 10 strikeouts in seven complete innings.

On the other side of things, Tumwater’s defense struggled, committing seven errors in the field. Three of those came in the bottom of the second, when the Bobcats plated five runs on just one hit.

Trenton Gaither took the loss for the T-Birds, though none of the six runs he allowed in 3 ⅓ innings was earned. At the plate, Overbay finished 2 for 2, adding a double to his line, but he had half of his side’s hits.

Tumwater’s day nearly started as roughly as it ended, with Aberdeen tying things up at 4-4 in the top of the fourth inning thanks to a frame that included three T-Bird errors. But the hosts took the lead right back on a Briar Finney RBI single in the bottom half of the frame, then blew it open with seven runs in the bottom of the sixth.

Brayden Oram, Grayson Reveal, and Landon Roy all had two-hit games with doubles for the T-Birds in Game 1. Overbay tossed three hitless innings to start, and Ayden Ramsey earned the win with three innings of relief.

Tumwater is set to go to Rochester to open a series next Tuesday.