Trenton Savage Racks Up 13 Strikeouts in Highline Baseball Victory

Highline vs. Tyee. April 15 game recap.

by Jake KnightBurien-News Sports Writer.Trenton Savage is starting to make dominant outings and dazzling stat lines more of a normality than they typically are this season, and he continued his torrid stretch in an away game Monday afternoon against the Tyee Titans.

Trenton Savage, Pirates pitcher 4/15/24 - Highline Pirates v Tyee TitansThe Highline Pirates secured the 4-1 win behind Savage's complete game, one-run, two-hit performance in which he struck out 13 Titans. Although that number is an impressive feat to achieve in seven innings, possibly the most impressive stat of them all is the number of walks: zero.The one run given up came in the first inning. After striking out the first two batters in Tyee's lineup, Savage hit the third batter, who would steal second and score on a Jackson Williams single up the middle. Savage picked off Williams at first to end the frame and shoved the rest of the way.A blooper that fell in left field with two outs in the third was the last hit Savage allowed. The next and last Titan to reach base would be on an error in the seventh inning. In between the hit and the error, Savage sat down 11 consecutive opponents, seven by way of the punchout. The error wouldn't come back to hurt. A flyout from the next batter got the second out of the inning, and one ofSavage's many gorgeous curveballs enticed another swing and miss, to end the game with his last strikeout.Savage's season-earned run average now sits at 1.45.The Pirates' offense brought home a run in the first, somewhat lackluster given that the first three hitters walked to immediately load the bases. But Highline took the lead in the second inning after a couple of singles and a couple of errors allowed two runners to circle the bases and score.Highline tacked on one more insurance run in the top of the fifth. Roman Easter walked with one out, setting the stage for the middle of the lineup. Savage singled, swiftly backed by another single off the bat of Hawke Hansen to score Easter from second.Hawke Hansen's single:[videopress rPhsPb9F]The top three did the heavy lifting for the offense. Hansen and Savage both checked in with multi-hit games, and Easter reached base on three occasions, scoring twice.The win brings Highline back to the .500 mark at 7-7 and 6-2 in league play, good enough for second place in the 2A Kingco standings behind Sammamish, who holds an undefeated 10-0 record against league opponents.Only four regular-season games remain for the Pirates.They travel to Evergreen High School Wednesday at 3:30 pm. On deck after Wednesday, is the highly anticipatedgame against Nathan Hale this Friday night at 5 pm at the Seattle Mariners home field, T-Mobile Park.Pirates v. Titans 4/15/24 images:

(Images and video courtesy of Jake Knight.)