Menlo-Atherton baseball walks off first-place King's Academy in PAL Bay Division showdown

Scott enjoyed a big day at the plate, going 2 for 3 with a home run and three RBIs. His two-run home run in the third initially gave the Bears a 3-2 lead. Through six games since joining the varsity lineup, the 6-3 left-handed power hitter is batting .619 with three home runs in 21 at-bats.

King’s (5-2, 11-7) tied it with a four-run rally in the fifth, capped by a two-run single from sophomore Wyatt Smith. M-A starting pitcher Caden Lewis survived the sideways innings, however, and recalibrated to go the distance. The senior right-hander set down the last nine batters he faced, and allowed six runs on eight hits through eight innings of work while totaling 94 pitches to earn the win.

Good things happened with Scott at the plate all day long. Even though the freshman popped out in his first at-bat, senior Ryder Kelly had led off the first inning with a walk. With Scott at the plate, Kelly proceeded to steal second and third, then scored on the catcher’s errant throw into the outfield to tie it 1-all.

The Knights retook the lead in the third on an RBI double form senior Nick Plata, but Scott gave M-A the lead right back on his two-run blast to left, and senior Max Brubacher laced a two-run single to right to make it 5-2. In the sixth, M-A senior Masataka Shudo added an RBI single.

Shudo was 3 for 3 with an RBI and a run scored in the game. Freshman Owen Coupe added two hits for M-A. Plata finished with two hits and two RBIs for King’s, while senior Justin Cho and sophomore Brandon Kinoshita added two hits apiece.

With the loss, the second in PAL Bay Division play for King’s, Burlingame and Menlo School, tied for second place, now sit a half game back in the standings.