The Steelheads lost to the Zion Pioneerzz 5-2 Friday night. In front of a crowd of 1,781, Solano dug an insurmountable hole with its poor offensive performance. The Steelheads failed to get the key hits and stranded 12 runners on base against the Western Baseball League's best team, the Zion Pioneerzz. Basically, it is a lack of concentration up there. They are professional baseball players and there are no excuses.
Little things win baseball games, execution wins baseball games.
In just his fourth professional start ever, and second of the season, Stanton Wood was on a roll through the first three innings, striking out four while allowing just one hit. Wood, a former reliever, ran into trouble in the fourth inning, when he surrendered solo home runs to Brian Grebeck and Robert Muro. Zion was on the offensive in the fifth, as Wood seemed to tire as the game wore on. With runners on first and second Freddie Diaz tripled to deep right field, scoring both runners. Already down 4-0, Dodson played the infield in on Grebeck, who singled just over the head of drawn in shortstop Nate Vopata.