Roosevelt ‘9’ is playing winning baseball

Thirteen games into the 2023 season, the Roosevelt baseball team finds itself in pretty decent shape. The Bears were 6-7 through the first portion of the schedule, including a pair of Downriver League victories.

The Bears snapped a three-game losing streak on April 18 and they did it with a vengeance, beating Lincoln Park 13-3.

One day later, the team was celebrating another victory, this time a 7-2 road decision at Dearborn Edsel Ford.

It was a great bounce-back for a team that had suffered a few recent blows.

On April 12, the Bears went to Trenton for their Downriver League opener. There, Roosevelt trailed for most of the game only to tie things up with a run in the top of the seventh inning.

Neither team was able to score in extra innings until the bottom of the ninth when Trenton’s Joaquin Maldonado hit his first career home run, a two-run walk off shot.

Two days later the beast welcomed Monroe to Wyandotte for a nonleague doubleheader and it did not go well for the home team. Roosevelt could not score in either game and lost 15-0 and 1-0.

Early in the season Roosevelt went on a spring training trip to Kentucky and lost all three games played there. They lost to Campbell County, Ryle and Connor. All the games were close except the Connor game in which Roosevelt fell behind early and could never catch up.

In non-league games closer to home, Roosevelt put together a 3-1 record with wins over Riverview, Ann Arbor Huron and Grosse Ile and a close loss to Flat Rock.

On opening day, Wyandotte went to Riverview, built a 4-0 lead through four innings and went on to post a 5-2 victory. Jason Pente and Manny Guiterrez each had two hits and Emilio Sanchez drove in two runs.

2023 Roster

2 Marcos Gonzalez

3 Manny Guiterrez

4 Mark Sobush

5 Keegan Rose

6 Jorde Cruz

8 Jason Pente

9 Aiden Kuzma

10 Alex Nunez

11 Tyler Kurdi

14 Peyton Webster

13 RJ Pauley

17 Emilio Sanchez

19 Jadn McGowan

20 Anthony Piasecki

22 Michael Massengill

23 Juan Cruz

Guiterrez pitched four innings and Jadn McGowan pitched three and the pair fanned a combined 15 Riverview hitters. McGown had eight Ks and Guiterrez had seven.

In a 9-1 blowout of Huron, Roosevelt scored five runs in the first inning and four in the second and the game was essentially over. Mark Sobush had two hits and three RBI, Keegan Rose had two hits and Sanchez had two RBI.

The Bears have plenty of home games on the horizon, so come on down to Memorial Field and cheer the team on.

The Bears host Southgate Anderson on April 24, defending league champ Woodhaven on April 27, Allen Park on May 2 and Trenton on May 3