Baseball Recap: Park City falls despite strong effort from Jake Diamond

By Team Reports May 9, 2024, 5:17pm

Baseball Recap: Park City Miners vs. Pine View Panthers

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Park City can now relate to. They took a 7-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Pine View Panthers on Thursday. Park City's defeat signaled the end of their eight-game winning streak.

Park City got a good showing from Jake Diamond, who pitched 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs or hits.

On the hitting side, Park City saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Griffen Rogers, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI.

On Pine View's side, the team relied heavily on Porter Campbell, who went 1-for-3 with four RBI, a triple, and a run. The team also got some help courtesy of Andrew Shakespeare, who scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in two of his four plate appearances.

Park City's loss dropped their record down to 18-8. As for Pine View, the win was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 17-11.

While Park City had to take the loss, they won't have to wait long to give it another shot: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 1:00 p.m. on Friday.

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