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Boom Blast Diamond Dawgs Winter Park, Fla. – The Altamonte Springs Boom defeated the Winter Park Diamond Dawgs 8-0, in eight innings, Wednesday night at Alfond Stadium. However, the story was Brett Morales (Florida), who tossed 7.2 scoreless innings, with no walks and six strikeouts. Alex Young () drove a two strike pitch through the left side of the infield to break up his perfect-game. Coach Kevin Davidson would come out to get Morales and the crowd, mostly Diamond Dawg fans, to give him a standing ovation. Most people in the stadium was disappointed when the pitch before the hit, when a borderline pitch was not called on a strike. Mitch McCarthy would get the final out after one walk and one single, to earn the Boom their league leading fifth shutout. “He pitched the most dominant game I have seen in all my years in the …show more content…

Hoover echoed the same sentiment, “It was tense but I made sure to make every play, because I did not want mess up his perfect game.” Morales had to be strong as Adam Polansky matched him, pitch-for-pitch, through the first five innings. He allowed one unearned run and two hits before Altamonte Springs broke open the game with five runs. His pitching line was not indicative of how well he pitched, and he took a tough loss. The sixth inning was when everything changed, as the Boom sent 10 batters to the plate, and scored five runs, giving them a 7-0 lead. Matt Piatt notched two hits and RBIs in the inning, including his leadoff home run over the right center field wall. It was his first on the season. Brandon Sedell (Nova Southeastern), Hoover and Chris Townsend (Central Arkansas) set the table for the top of the lineup when each singled to load the bases. After a pitching change, Daniel Sweet cleared the bases, with a three RBI triple to left center field. Piatt drove his second RBI in the inning in with two outs and two on, with a line drive between the shortstop and third

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