Incoming Stanford freshman Brandon Dieter hit a home run and then pitched the ninth to pick up the save as the Pacific Union Capitalists beat visiting Utah Marshalls 7-6 on Monday in a nonconference college summer baseball game at Palo Alto High.
Utah picked up an unearned run in the top of the ninth in the completion of Sunday’s suspended game to win, 6-5.
Kyle Velasquez also homered and drove in a pair of runs for the Caps in Monday’s regularly scheduled game.
The Caps (10-10) host the Healdsburg Prune Packers at Paly on Tuesday at 5 p.m.
PUF scored three runs in the bottom of the first to erase an early deficit. Palo Alto grad Max Jung-Goldberg singled and Austin Wells walked to open the inning. Tanner Carlson doubled home Jung-Goldberg and Holgate singled in two runs.
Dieter hit a home run to lead off the fourth and Jung-Goldberg singled in another run to make it 5-2.
After Utah drew within 5-4 in the seventh, Velasquez hit a two-run homer in the eighth.
In the suspended game, the Marshalls scored the go-ahead run when Arizona-bound Ryan Archibald tripled and scored on a passed ball.
The Caps tied the game when Juan Gonzalez singled home a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth. Gonzalez also doubled home a pair of runs in the sixth.
Incoming Stanford freshman Austin Kretzschmar singled home a run in the sixth for Utah. Dieter, who will be joining Kretzchmar at Stanford, collected two hits.
By Palo Alto Online Sports
By Palo Alto Online Sports
By Palo Alto Online Sports