The Yorkton Cardinals started their 2019 Western Canadian Baseball League season on the road tonight taking on Regina.
The host Red Sox struck quickly plating a run off Cardinal starter ??? in the bottom half of the first inning.
The slim one-run lead held until the top of the fourth when Yorkton found a run to tie the score.
It was a short-lived tie as Regina responded in the home half of the fourth scoring a pair to take a 3-1 lead.
The Sox put up a three spot in the sixth to extend their lead to 6-1, then adding two more in the eighth for a season-opening 8-1 victory.
The Cardinals started Payton Harris from Hattiesburg, MS. He went two innings and was followed by different pitchers seeing action in the loss. The staff gave up a combined nine hits, eight walks, and eight runs all of them earned.
Phil Whelan from Canmore, AB., would plate Yorkton’s only run in the contest., while Matthew Korman of Calgary went four-for-four at the plate, on a night the Cardinals would have only seven hits as a team.
