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Rangers rout Masters, 20-5
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Posted on May 22 2006
The Ford Rangers padded the stats and pulled to within one game of first place as they mashed the K’s Wao Pao Masters in a 20-5 laugher at Francisco M. Palacios Baseball Field on Sunday in the continuation of the Budweiser Saipan Major League.
The defending champs piled on 16 hits thanks in large part to centerfielder Mario Sablan’s big day at the plate in which he smacked a single, a triple and an inside-the-park homerun to finish 3-for-5 with five runs batted in. Were it not for an error on the throw home, Sablan would have traded in his triple for his second inside-the-parker.
The perennial all-star wasn’t the only one taking advantage of opposing pitching as J.P. Sablan drove in five runs off of a triple and a pair of singles for a 3-for-5 outing, while Jason Gay went 3-for-5, smacked a pair of base hits, a double, and racked up three ribbies.
Roy Celis and Ed Kapileo were a hit shy of joining the 3-for-5 club but Celis legged out a double and a triple, while Kapileo drove in a run with a pair of singles.
While the Rangers were wrangling runs, their pitching staff prevented the Masters from joining the hit parade as J.P. Flores and Craig Tenorio teamed up for a five-run six-hitter. Flores went the first four innings and allowed one run off of three hits and fanned two before Tenorio surrendered four runs off of three hits to close out the game.
After neither team managed a run in the opening inning, the Rangers broke the scoreless tie with a pair of runs in the top of the second and added a half dozen to take an 8-0 lead through two and a half.
The Masters answered with a run in the bottom of the third but the Rangers pounded out another six runs in the fourth and four more in the fifth to take an 18-1 advantage. There was little the Masters could do to overcome the offensive onslaught, but the cagey veterans went out swinging by adding three in the fifth and added another in the sixth before the officials invoked the 10-run mercy rule.
