Astros finished up their season with 2 wins Eric Natcheim and Brendan Talonen each went five innings and Paul Ferrari and Josh Czyz went 4 each and Nolan Craddock finished off with 3 innings. Eric was named Pitcher of the Week. The Astros Veterans showed the baby Astros how to do it with Jeff Tolotti getting up off the couch after 2 seasons and hitting 2 home runs with his first 2 swings of the bat to get Hitter of the Week. Jesse Brown also added a homer and a double. Kaden added a had a homer and 3 hits. EWood and Nate added a double and a single, Donnie, Kyle and Harvey each had a couple hits.
The Astros hosted my friend of 30 years and his legacy... The Fairfield Indians. The Astros sought revenge after losing to the Indians to start the season... and we were fortunate to come out with 2 wins Saturday. Paul Ferrari got the win in game 1 with 6 J's and only 2 hits. Eric Nachtsheim got the save with 5K's and 1 hit. Scott Underwood returned to the Astros lineup with two home runs and three hits but under no circumstance can he have hitter of the week when he only plays one game! LJ has his first home run of the year to take the lead. Kaden Schutt, Gavin Talonen and Harvey Smerdon each had a hit with an RBI. Game 2 saw Pitcher of the Week Brendan Talonen go 6 innings with 12 K's while only giving up 2 hits. Nolan Craddock looked sharp striking out the side in the last inning. LJ, Gavin and Eric each hit homers in Game 2 with LJ going 5-8 and earning his first Hitter of the Week. Golly Gee Whizz added 2 hits with double that was the game winning RBI.
Astros hosted National Baseball Organization and won the first game 7-1 and the second game 17 - 3 on Saturday. Josh says started game one and threw 63 pitches with 30 being strikes. He gave up two hits and two walks with five strikeouts and would have been pitcher of the week except for the fact that he asked if he was going to be pitcher of the week. Brendan Talonen finished up with five strikeouts in 3 innings. Donovan had 3 hits with a double, Nate, Kyle and Harvey each had 2 hits. Kaden and LJ each had a double with an RBI. In game 2 Nolan Craddock got the start and gave up no hits and had 3 strikeouts to lock down Pitcher of the Week! Paul three the middle 3 with 2 hits and 2 K's. Eric finished up with two innings, two walks, two hits, a hit batter, a wild pitch and four strikeouts. EWood homered, Harvey finally pulled a ball and the wind carried it out for his first homer, Kyle Ford had 3 more hits to lock down Hitter of the Week. Whizz, Kaden and Jesse each had 2 hits and Sean Pauly evened out the Astros attack with a Silver Sombrero.
The Astros went up against Folsom College on Saturday and came out with 2 wins. Eric Nachtsheim got the win in game 1 going 79 pitches, giving up 2 hits with 8 strikeouts. Josh Czyz finished up with no hits, 4 strikeouts but 3 walks. Donavan Rutfield and Eric Underwood both hit homeruns and scored 4 runs each. Jesse Brown and LJ Thomas had doubles and both scored 2 runs. Game 2 saw Pitcher of the Week Brendan Talonen got the win in 4 innings and only giving up 1 hit and striking out 7. Paul Ferrari got the save with 7 strikeouts in 3 innings. Hitter of the Week Donovan had a double and a triple in game 2. Eric Underwood stayed hot getting another double and a single. Kyle Ford added a double and Kaden Schutt, LJ and Jesse all had hits as well.
The Astros hosted NBO on Saturday and won the first game 13-3 behind Pitcher of the Week Brendan Talonen. Brendan welcomed his first child Landon into the world this week and then went out and pitched a complete game striking out 10 and all 3 runs being unearned. Blaise Czyz had a bases loaded double for the game winning RBI's. Donavan Rutfield and Eric Underwood had homeruns and Golly Gee Whizz had a bases loaded double. Game 2 saw Gavin Talonen get the win going 3 innings with 4 K's. Nolan Craddock and Josh Czyz each went 2 innings to finish up giving up a couple runs each and 3 K's. Gavin also had 2 hits and 2 walks with 3 rbi's at the plate. Jesse Brown broke out of his slump with 2 hits. Kyle Ford scored 4 runs, Golly Gee Whizz had 2 more doubles, Richard Kerr and Harvey Smerdon had a double with 2 RBI's but Donovan Rutfield nailed down hitter of the week with 3 more hits and a walk including 2 doubles.
Astros dropped a double header to Sierra College 9-6 and 11-7 with a combination of bad fielding, poor throwing, horrible base running, awful coaching and terrible game management. The Baby 'Stros showed their youth and their talent. Gavin Talonen got hitter of the week with a home run over the green monster in Center, a double and on base 5 times but..... struck out twice, including with the bases loaded in the 8th inning of the game 1. He made 2 great plays at 3rd but.... then was late covering the bag on a steal that led to 3 runs. Sean Pauly had 3 hits and was on base 5 times also including his first home run but..... as the tying run tried to steal second on his own and got thrown out by 3 steps that Gavin then hit the home run. Yes.... That would have put us ahead going into the last inning. Then as the potential walk off game winning run, he failed to score from second on a single to center in the bottom of the 9th. Harvey Smerdon made his Astros debut with 3 hits with a walk and a couple RBI's but... had 4 errors in the field that Sierra then scored all 9 of their runs in those innings. Kaden Schuck had his team leading 4th homer and a single, Donovan Rutfield had a double off the wall and Gee Whiz had a couple of singles. Ex Pro's Eric Underwood got a big hit to start off the last inning in game 1 but... he broke 2 bats and short hopped the catcher on a Sac Fly that led to the go ahead run. Jesse Brown had a typical pro day going 0-7 while leaving 7 runners on. Eric Nachtsheim started game 1 with 4 innings and 5 K's and should have got the win and Paul Ferrari should have got the save but ended up with the loss. Brendan Talonen only gave up two hits and struck out five in four innings and should have got the win in game 2. Nolan Craddock got pitcher of the week only throwing eight pitches in the 5th inning and handed the lead to the closer Josh Czyz, who then imploded for 9 runs in 2 innings to seal the Astros fate. Matt's first missed games in 31 seasons... Outside of Josh, the Astros only gave up two earned runs all day and came away with two losses. Youth and inexperience is no excuse. That is unacceptable.
The Astros hosted longtime foe NBO for a doubleheader in Saturday and came away with 2 victories. Game 1 starter Paul Ferrari got the win going 5 innings with 6 strikeouts and Eric Natcheim threw the last 2 innings with 3 strikeouts. Kyle Ford had 2 homers and a triple, Kayden Schutt and Eric Underwood had 3 hits, Caleb Ariaz, Michael Doerr and Good Golly Gee Whiz Saldado each had 2 hits and Preston Snyder's first Astro hit was a Homer. Game 2 saw pitcher of the week Brendan Talonen get the win going 4 innings with 7 K's and Josh Czyz threw the last 2 innings with 3 K's. Hitter of the week Kayden Schutt started the scoring with a homer, Michael Doerr had a 3 run triple and Kyle Ford had a 2 run double to round out the scoring.
Astros began the season with Paul Ferrari getting pitcher of the week by throwing four innings of two hit baseball against the Fairfield Indians and Kayden Schuck getting hitter of the week with four hits and two walks including two home runs and four runs scored. Eric Underwood narrowly missed hitter of the week with his own two home runs. Astros improve to 5 and 1 on the season by splitting a double header with Sierra College. Paul Ferrari again got pitcher of the week with six innings and two hits even though Josh Czyz got the win when he gave up 3 runs to lose the lead and then hang on for the win due to Chris Rinaudo bailing him out with a 2 run double in the 9th inning for the win. Chris is hitter of the week with 4 hits and turned 3 double plays after a 15 year layoff from his Reno Astros days at Moana Stadium. Eric Nachtseim started game 2 and left with a tie game and Nolan Craddock got the loss in relief. Donavan Rutfield had 3 hits, James McCabe, Eric Underwood and Michael Doerr had 2 hits with 2 doubles. Astro rookie Shawn Paulie had a bases loaded triple and Baby Astro Bage Gurns also had 2 hits.
Congratulations to Reno Astro Ray Kerr who made his first MLB appearance as a Starting Pitcher for the Atlanta Braves on 5/24/2024!!!
