July 3, 2017 Pasadena, CA The Orange County Riptide outhit the Arroyo Seco Saints 9-6 today, but a solo home run by Tyler Durna (UC San Diego) and a second run scored without the benefit of hit proved enough for the Saints to post a 2-1 victory at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Durna’s home run, which came with two outs in the bottom of the first inning, was the only extra-base hit recorded by the Saints as two Orange County pitchers, Tanner Murphey and Phil Steering, who combined for nine strikeouts, outpitched the trio of pitchers from Arroyo Seco in terms of all the numbers except in the win column. The inning that cost the Riptide was the fourth and it was a self-inflicted run that determined the game. With Murphey on the mound, Blake Burton (Washington) led off the inning with walk, advanced to second when the next batter, Brendan Krob (Evansville), was hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a groundball out and scored what proved to be the winning run on a wild pitch. Tommy Costello (Washington), Josh Little (NC Central) and Tim Turner (George Mason), the three pitchers to take the mound for the Saints, stranded ten Riptide baserunners in the game, erased another four on the base paths, and combined for seven strikeouts. The only blemish to their outing happened in the fifth inning when Paul Gomez hit a one-out double and, after stealing third base, scored on a Joey Parente RBI-single. After Parente’s hit, Little came into the game in relief of Costello and struck out the next two batters to escape further damage. The Riptide would put runners on base in each of the last four innings, but Little and Turner stranded them all to hold the lead and pick up the save, respectively. Durna added a single in the fifth inning to finish as the only Saints player with a multiple-hit game. Gomez, Connor Beck (Texas Tech) and Beau Phillip (San Joaquin JC) each had two hits to lead Orange County. Click here for recaps of this game Elsewhere around the CCL today: San Luis Obispo, CA The San Luis Obispo Blues scored four times by runners who reached base on a walk, and Nathaniel Javine (Oregon Tech) had a game-high three RBI to lead the Blues to an 8-2 win over the Southern California Catch tonight at Sinsheimer Park. Outhit by the Catch 10-8, the Blues took advantage of the free passes issued by the Catch pitchers, scoring two runs in four different innings, each time including a walk that extended their at bats. On the other side of the pitching line, Jack Schneider (Grand Canyon), Jake Swiech (San Jose St) and Austin Isenhart (New Mexico) stranded eleven Catch baserunners, seven of them in scoring position, by striking out eight, half of which ended innings, and three times with at least one runner in scoring position. The Blues, who did not record an extra-base hit in the game, scored twice in the second, fourth, seventh and eighth innings on run-scoring singles by Javine and Tate Samuelson (Cal Poly), a sacrifice fly, an RBI-groundout, an error and a passed ball. Samuelson and Marco Murillo (Campbellsville) each had two hits and Ricky Martinez (Sacramento St) scored three runs to lead the San Luis Obispo offense. Shay Whitcomb (UC San Diego) had a game-high three hits, Tyler Fisher (Olivet Nazarene) doubled and singled, and Steven Garrett (Azusa Pacific) had two hits to lead the Catch. Click here for recaps of this game