Consistency is not something the Western Major Baseball League (WMBL) Yorkton Cardinals developed this season. The Cardinals would record wins in fits and starts. They would be having a good game when suddenly a lapse provided their opposition to score a flurry of runs to take the win. Now, as the WMBL regular season draws to a close, it appears highly unlikely the Yorkton Cardinals will see a post season.
After knocking off the top team in the central division, the Regina Red Sox, the Cardinals dropped two games to the Swift Current Indians. Tuesday, the Indians downed Yorkton 8-2 at Jubilee Park.
Cardinals starter Sean Gavin, tagged with the loss, gave up nine hits which resulted in six earned runs for the Indians.
Cardinal runs were scored by James Green and Kevin McLeod.
McLeod and Jake Bailey each batted in a run.
Wednesday the visiting Indians scored an 8-4 win in the second game of a two game stand at Jubilee Park.
Yesniel Henriquez who started for Yorkton was tagged with the loss after giving up seven earned runs on seven hits in five and a third innings on the mound.
McLeod started Yorkton scoring with a run in the opening inning.
Landon Briscoe and Green each came home in the fifth inning to produce two more runs for Yorkton.
Zachary Bott scored Yorkton's fourth run. Unfortunately by that time Swift Current had brought in two runs in the first, two more in the second, added a run in the third inning and capped their scoring with three sixth inning runs for an 8-4 win.
Gabriel Molina, Jon Mihic and Luis Sanchez each earned an RBI.
Thursday evening the Cardinals continued to battle to stave off playoff elimination against the Moose Jaw Miller Express at Ross Wells Park in Moose Jaw.
The Cardinals managed to score seven runs which, under most circumstances, should have led to a win. Unfortunately they gave up four runs in the fourth inning which was the difference in the 11-7 win by the Miller Express.
Cardinals starting pitcher Louis Lora who gave up seven hits which resulted in seven runs, five of them earned runs in three innings of work, took the loss.
Mihic led the scoring for Yorkton with a pair of runs while Green, McLeod, Molina, Briscoe and Sanchez each came home once in the game.
Mihic and Bailey each had a pair of RBIs while Molina claimed one RBI.
Yorkton claimed a narrow but badly needed 8-7 win over the division leading Regina Red Sox at Currie Field in Regina Friday.
Yorkton's starting pitcher N.D. Gonzalez, who worked for six innings, limited the Red Sox to two hits which resulted in three runs, two of them earned runs, while striking out nine Regina batters to earn the win.
Mihic and Bott each scored two runs while Green, Molina, Bailey, Briscoe, Sanchez and Elfrey Abad each scored a run.
McLeod, Bott and Abad each knocked in two RBIs while Bailey picked up a single RBI.
Monday night the Okotoks Dawgs were in town for the first of a two game series with the Cardinals.
Yorkton managed to hold on to a 3-3 tie until the eighth inning when a two run home run shot over the left field fence gave the Dawgs a two run edge which the Cardinals couldn't overcome.
The Dawgs added a run in the top of the ninth for the 6-3 win.
Cardinals pitcher Gavin who worked for seven and two thirds solid innings was named the losing pitcher.
Mihic, Bott and Briscoe each scored a run for Yorkton.
Green and Bott each earned an RBI.
Tuesday it was do or die for the Cardinals as they faced the Indians in the second game of the two game home stand. Unfortunately the Cards died as the visitors claimed a 10-4 win on the strength of three, three run innings.
Cardinals starter Trevor Daggon, who gave up nine hits for seven earned runs in three and a third innings on the mound, took the loss.
Green, McLeod, Molina, and Mihic each scored a run for Yorkton.
RBIs were recorded by Molina and Mihic.
With two games left in the regular season, it seems the Cardinals season may well be cut short this week.
