There was a baseball game in Peoria on Friday. The Javelinas seem like they were informed that the game would be happening ahead of time, while the Salt River Rafters appear that they were told they had a game to play about three minutes after waking up. Peoria scored in each of the first five innings to take a 15-0 lead and Salt River would eventually score a single run in the 8th inning of what wound up a 15-1 loss for the Rafters.
The Cincinnati Reds had four players on the field when the game started and every one of them played a part in the win. Rhett Lowder made his Arizona Fall League debut in the game and he looked every bit the part of a guy with success in the big leagues as he threw 2.0 shutout innings with no walks, giving up two hits, and striking out three batters. His final strikeout came with an assist from his catcher as Alfredo Duno challenged the umpires “ball” call and won as the challenge system overturned the call for strike three to end the 2nd inning. Lowder threw 23 pitches on the day and 21 of them were strikes and six of those were swings-and-misses. He set the tone for the pitching staff on the day.
On the other side of the mound was the pitching staff for Salt River. They used seven pitchers. The first five pitchers they used all walked multiple batters and the pitching staff as a whole walked 17 batters in their eight innings. They also gave up 12 hits. Fun fact, though – the only home run of the game was hit by a Salt River player.
Cincinnati’s three hitters combined to walk six times in the game. Alfredo Duno went 1-2 with three walks and two runs batted in. Cam Collier went 1-4 with two walks, a double, and a run scored. Leo Balcazar went 2-5 with a walk, stolen base, run, and an RBI.
The hardest hit ball of the game was from Cam Collier. His double came off of the bat at 109.0 MPH. Alfredo Duno had the second furthest hit ball of the game with a 397-foot sacrifice fly (that came off the bat at 107 MPH). You can check out the box score for the entire game here.