Bulldogs blast past Braves baseball
Cayde Stajcar brought the power to ABS Park Friday to help the Butte Bulldogs to a 21-5 victory over Flathead in AA baseball. Stajcar hit a two-RBI double and a three-run home run during a pair of big innings for the Bulldogs, who ran away with the victory. “We just have to make the routine plays,” Braves coach Richard Burland said.
“We have to be more consistent. We can’t keep giving extra outs. That is what is killing us right now.
” Butte (1-2) started the scoring in the second inning as Teagan Duffy drove in a pair of runs with a two-out single. A Calvin Cunningham two-RBI single in the third helped Butte extend the lead to 4-0. After another Butte run, Flathead (1-3) got their offense rolling in the third inning as Eli Coopman doubled to right center and drove in Dillon Wink and Hunter Fann as the Braves scored three in the inning.
Stajcar gave Butte the momentum right back with his double to right field that scored Duffy and Logan Carden. Cunningham and Evan McEwan added two-run singles as Butte pulled ahead 12-3 in the inning. After a scoreless fifth inning, Butte got the offense rolling again in the sixth with Carden scoring one on a double to right.
The next batter was Stajcar, and the freshman connected on a 2-2 pitch and blasted it down the third-base line over the fence to put the Bulldogs ahead 18-3. Butte added three more in the inning. Luke Driear and Tyson Franchini-White tried to start a Flathead rally in the bottom half with RBI singles, but that's all the Braves would get.
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