Green-Shirted Scarlets Thrash Gray-Suited Royals 16-6
A good crowd turned out for this Friday night Royal—Scarlet shootout.
Not obvious in this picture because the sun was still fairly fierce early in the game, so most everyone was sitting on the Royal side where there was at least some protection from the sun.
No one explained to me why the Scarlets wore green shirts tonight but it seemed to be good for their hitting game or perhaps bad luck for the Royals pitching game.
Both probably as 15 hits were rapped out by each team but 3 double plays by the Scarlets held the scoring down to 6 runs for the Royals while they Scarlets erupted for 8 runs in the 3rd which seemed to take the air out of the Royals.
They responded with 3 runs of their own but then another 4 run Scarlet outburst in the 5th and finally a walked in run in the bottom of the 8th brought the affair to a merciful 10 run rule ending.
Wildness on the part of several Royal pitchers and some curious throws in the outfield and infield, though not recorded as errors, certainly did not look good to the ordinary fan in the stand.
These kids always provide good baseball for Billings. They are 1-2 in the state right now. There might have been 2000 fans there tonight. Congrats to Head Coaches Steffanich and Hust for all the work they put in.
