MERIDEN \u2014 No hit was more grand than Ryan Lavender\u2019s hit in the top of the fifth inning during Wednesday\u2019s baseball game between the Berlin Redcoats and the Maloney Spartans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading Maloney 9-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning with the bases loaded, Lavender hit a deep fly ball to center field that went out of the park for a grand slam, giving Berlin a 13-2 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Spartans only garnered a run in the bottom of the fifth, resulting in a 13-3 five-inning win for Berlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to Lavender\u2019s grand slam, Berlin trailed Maloney 2-0 after the first inning, but quickly took a 3-2 lead with three runs in the second inning. Jack Swanson hit a three-run RBI on a line drive to center field as Gavin Bennett, Tyler Bennett, and Zach McAdam each scored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Berlin added four runs in the third inning, to take a 7-2 lead. Gavin Bennett hit an RBI single, bringing Lavender home, and a triple from Tyler Bennett brought home Gavin Bennett. Tyler Bennett then scored when McAdam singled on a fly ball to right field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Redcoats added two runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 9-2 lead before Lavender\u2019s fifth-inning grand slam.<\/p>\n
In the win, Lavender (4) and Swanson (3) combined for seven of the team\u2019s 12 RBIs, with both Bennetts recording two RBIs each. Swanson had a team-high three hits and Lavender had a team-high three runs scored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the mound, Matteo Modifica got the win pitching six innings and allowing two hits, two runs, two walks, and recording three strikeouts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the win, Berlin improved to 11-4 on the season, winning its sixth-straight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MERIDEN \u2014 No hit was more grand than Ryan Lavender\u2019s hit in the top of the fifth inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-82288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116572308785771443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}