{"id":33059,"date":"2023-05-18T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=33059"},"modified":"2023-05-18T20:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T00:42:29","slug":"titans-emmett-doyle-strikes-out-nine-in-14-1-mothers-day-mauling-of-the-toronto-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/titans-emmett-doyle-strikes-out-nine-in-14-1-mothers-day-mauling-of-the-toronto-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans\u2019 Emmett Doyle strikes out nine in 14-1 Mother\u2019s Day mauling of the Toronto Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

14U Titans pitcher Emmett Doyle saved his best effort of the CPBL season for Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right-handed hurler struck out nine Toronto Mets on Sunday afternoon at St. Andrew\u2019s College and his offence plated six runs in both the third inning and the fourth inning to back a 14-1 complete game victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doyle\u2019s 80-pitch gem was not without its hiccups and the starter acknowledged his uneven opening inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt a bit rough at the start, but once we got runs and took the lead, I was able to settle in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doyle was grateful that his team\u2019s high-octane offence showed up again on Sunday, but he also gave credit to his catcher Dominic Williams for his successful start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter the six-run third inning, it was just Dom and me out there. Dom called a great game and made it easy. The whole team was hitting which was nice, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14U Head Coach John Bethune echoed his starter\u2019s assessment of the Titans\u2019 potent offence: \u201cOur hitting is there this year. We\u2019re averaging 7-8 runs a game so it was good to see the lineup so productive today from top to bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Bethune was quick to credit Doyle\u2019s effort on the mound and a key defensive play made by his infield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDoyle shoved out there this afternoon, but our defense was solid behind him, especially our 4-6-3 double play at the top of the third inning at a point when we were holding on to a 2-1 lead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third inning double play turned out to be the turning point of the game because the Titans plated six runs at the bottom of the frame to take a commanding 8-1 lead into the fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mother\u2019s Day contest between the CPBL rivals did not want for atmosphere. It featured the skirl of the bagpipes as SAC\u2019s award-winning Pipes and Drums went through their paces on an adjacent field and the swirl of dust devils created by brisk northeast winds which wreaked havoc for all fielders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid the skirl and swirl, the visiting Mets struck first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toronto took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Jacob Lonjack deposited a leadoff single into shallow centerfield and scored on a two-out wild pitch by Doyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Titans responded at the bottom of the frame when Tyson Kushnir legged out a leadoff infield single and Tysen White drew a walk. It seemed the Titans would squander the \u2018two-on-nobody-out\u2019 scenario after a strikeout and infield pop-up, but Sam Hess took a pitch in the numbers to load the bases and Aiden Stewart cashed Kushnir with an RBI single to tie the game 1-1. White scored on a wild pitch by Mets\u2019 starter Elijah Lintan-Peralta to put the Titans out front 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Titans\u2019 big double play at the top of the third to erase a leadoff base runner and a fifth strikeout by the dominant Doyle put the team\u2019s potent bats back in the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Bethune\u2019s offence surged at the bottom of the third amid the throbbing of the SAC drum corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan O\u2019Neill\u2019s quality at-bat resulted in a walk to lead off the fateful third and hard-hitting Caiden Moncada followed with a base hit into shallow right field.  Moncada hit .722 in four CPBL games leading into Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Neill stole third and Moncada stole second on successive plays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Neill plated the Titans\u2019 third run on a Lintan-Peralta wild pitch and Rylan Copeland lashed an RBI single into the right-centre gap to score Moncada, putting the Titans up 4-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kushnir legged out another infield single to keep the big inning alive, White drew a two-out walk, and James Ratcliffe hit a ball off the end of his bat that dropped in behind the pitcher to load the bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominic Williams drilled a two-run double down the third baseline to score Kushnir and White.  The Titan catcher\u2019s two RBIs gave his battery mate more breathing room, expanded the lead to 6-1, and chased Mets\u2019 starter Lintan-Peralta. Ratcliffe scored on a wild pitch and Williams scored on a bases-loaded walk to take an 8-1 lead into the fourth inning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doyle settled in at the top of the fourth. The resident of Minesing induced a lead off FO7 into the swirling winds that four of his teammates surrounded and he struck out two more Mets to preserve a seven-run lead over Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Titans put the game away at the bottom of the fourth by plating six more runs\u2014four of which scored on bases-loaded walks. Nathan O\u2019Neill led off the fourth with a leadoff single, stole second, and advanced to third when Caiden Moncada lashed a ball through the right side of the infield.  Tyson Kushnir\u2019s groundout plated the speedy O\u2019Neill to make it 9-1 and James Ratcliffe\u2019s squeeze bunt scored Moncada from third to up the lead to 10-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a 14-1 lead on the scoreboard, Doyle finished what he started when he struck out the final Mets batter of the game as an exclamation point to his complete game victory over Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Titans went on to sweep the Mother\u2019s Day doubleheader with a 6-5 win in Game 2 at SAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First baseman Tyson Kushnir went 5 for 6 (.833) during the doubleheader on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Copeland picked up a 5-out, 3-strikeout save in Game 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Titans, according to Coach Bethune, \u201chit .360 as a team on Sunday and have a .333 team average after 6 CPBL games, averaging eight runs a game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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