Moore, Richardson bring in tying, winning runs in Dairy Daddies’ extra-inning win over Burlington

It was quite an evening for local baseball players …

DANVILLE, Va. — Baseball can be a fruitful game to its practitioners.

It was to a pair of former local high school standouts Thursday night.

Former Chatham standout Jake Moore scored the tying run and former Tunstall standout Carter Richardson scored the winning run in the Danville Dairy Daddies’ 6–5 win over the Burlington Sock Puppets in 10 innings of Old North State League action Thursday night.

Per MiLB rules, Danville started the bottom of the 10th with courtesy runner Moore (Hampden-Sydney College) on second base. Moore got aggressive on the base paths and moved to third on Junior Powell’s infield single and came home with the tying run moments later on Mitch Santino’s bases-loaded walk. Richardson (Radford University) took it from there, plating Connor Plaster (UVA-Wise) with the winning run on his RBI, bases-loaded walk.

Burlington got the extra-inning duel start in the top of the 10th when Ethan George (Guilford College) scored on a wild pitch for a 5–4 lead. However, the win wasn’t meant to be as the Dairy Daddies rallied back in the bottom half.

Danville found itself in a 4–2 deficit entering the bottom of the seventh. However, the Dairy Daddies have proved capable of late-inning rallies, and they did so once again against the Sock Pups. Santino (Ohio Dominican University) got the one-out rally going with his one-out infield single, Richardson followed with a walk and Eric Mayer (Hampden-Sydney College) loaded the bases with his bloop single to right-center. Colby Cunningham (Marymount) knotted the score at 4–4 with his two-run single to left.

A see-saw game all night, the Sock Pups got the rally theme going in earnest in the top of the sixth. Trailing 2–1, Burlington took a 4–2 lead when Jack Beck (West Alabama) dropped a single to center that scored a pair of runs and an error on the same play brought in another run.

Trailing 1–0, the Dairy Daddies brought across a pair of runs in the top of the third. AJ Mustow (Hutchinson CC) knotted the score with his RBI single to right and former Chatham standout Christian Lancaster (Hampden-Sydney College) pushed across the go-ahead run with his RBI single.

Cunningham led Danville with a pair of RBI, while Mustow, Richardson, Lancaster and Santino drove in a run each as well.

Former Halifax County standout Josh Gunn (Patrick & Henry CC) got the win on the bump.