Tim Silsby took the hill for the Hawley Post 311 Senior Legion Game against Milford and overpowered the Warriors on seven solid, flawless innings of pitching, allowing only two hits in the 3-0 shut-out win and reaching 84 MPH on the radar gun.
Silsby, who graduated last year from WAHS, has been on a lay-off from playing in game-time situations and had to wait an extra day before taking the mound as the game was pushed back due to the inclement weather that has been striking the region lately, but the extra day didn’t have any adverse effects on his performance.
“We had the game scheduled for yesterday and I was ready to pitch yesterday but I got a good night’s rest last night and just came out today and did my thing. We have practice twice a week and I get out and throw with my catcher Chris Ortiz, who is a great catcher, we get out and have a long toss every other day and just try to get back in shape and hopefully throw a little bit in college next year,” added Silsby.
Behind Silsby’s pitching the Toros were playing fine, all-around ball on the diamond and committed only one error on the day. In the first inning they jumped out to a two-nothing lead when Corey Capone drove a shot to center field for a double scoring D.J. O’Heren for the first run and then Jake DeSane crossed the plate for the second run.
In the third the home-team put up one more run to take a three-nothing lead, more than enough to win. DeSane scored the final run of the game on an RBI by Erik Pulkkinen, his second RBI on the day.
Pulkkinen and DeSane each had two hits, Will McLaughlin, Capone, and Ian Dassance rounded out the seven hits for the Purple Pack.
Silsby’s game-plan was executed perfectly as he went the distance striking out six and forcing Milford to hit 11 groundball for outs.
“Me and Chris (Ortiz) talked before the game that we had to get ahead of them (batters) and get first-pitch strikes. Then I could use my junk pitches to get them out,” said Silsby. “My change-up was working real well today. I threw a couple of sliders and the fastballs.”
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