Mission Viejo – They see each other every day. At the dinner table. Before school. After school. And Tuesday afternoon, they saw each other in the opposing canoe.
And on the mound of the launcher.
In a real rarity, two brothers clashed while Anthony Chapuis, senior of El Toro, faced Mission Viejo Junior Aiden Chapuis in what some fans called the Chapuis show.
It was a game for the album, and maybe even a record book. But it was not for the highlighting coil.
El Toro, classified n ° 25 in the County of Orange, won the Sea View League, 7-5, to stay in first place in the League classification.
The charges have a 10-7 file in total, 5-2 in the league.
Mission Viejo, in the hope of running during an automatic berth of the playoffs with third place, fell to 9-10 in total, 1-3 in the league.
The Chapuis brothers played the match as no serious, but no launcher was himself. In two rounds, the two had made an error. And their performances were more anomalies than anything else.
Anthony Chapuis, who had only touched one striker in his first 38.1 sleeves this season, hit five Diablos in four sleeves. This is where the record book may have been affected. El Toro’s long -standing coach Mike Gonzales said he didn’t remember one of his launchers that hit so many strikers in a single match.
“He launches much more strikes than this,” said Gonzales about his right -hander, whose performance was an exception to the rule. “He did a good work of struggle to keep us in the game.”
Anthony Chapuis, who is going to walk at Chico State next season, has granted five points on four strokes, a walk and the five strikers. He removed two in four rounds. He abandoned simple points in the first and second round, and three in fourth – the biggest blow being a double at two points and two points by Jacob Ramirez.
Anthony Chapuis described his performance as the worst of the season, but said that it had more to do with the warmth of the afternoon and not drinking enough water.
“The heat came to my head,” he said. “This kid doesn’t put me in my head.”
Standing next to him after the match, Aiden Chapuis also minimized the match.
“I don’t have to face the opposing launcher, I have to face opposing strikers,” he said. “It was just another match, just another launcher.”
For what it is worth, Anthony was successful and marked against his brother.
Mission Viejo coach Dan Holley was not sure that he was buying what President – or Anthony – sold.
“How could you not think about it,” he said. “I have already seen Anthony Pitch. He has good things – he is a first -rate launcher. I told Aiden a few weeks ago that he could match Anthony and asked him if he agreed. He said he wanted to compete.
“It’s a cool story.”
Aiden Chapuis, a junior left -hander, abandoned simple points in first three sleeves.
“Aiden settled, but unfortunately, we did not make some games behind him,” said Holley. “After fighting early, he demonstrated a difficult performance. If we play in defense, we are probably winning this match.”
None of the two launchers was clear, and the performance is not behind them either. The two teams made three mistakes.
The sixth round was the Mission Viejo update. With two withdrawals and runners in the first and second, the second single of the striker n ° 9 Dylan Ortiz also gave him his second point produced to attract El Toro to 5-4.
Blake Rajan’s second single did it 5-5.
It hunted Aiden Chapuis from the game with a line that included 10 strokes, a walk and two stick withdrawals. But an error to launch on a group on the ground allowed Ortiz and Rajan to score for the 7-5 margin. All the races were charged with Aiden Chapuis.
“I have abandoned too much success,” he said. “I just couldn’t keep the ball, I couldn’t hit my spots.”
Nathan Broesamle obtained the relief victory. He abandoned two strokes and a walk in three laundry rounds.
“He did a very good job to hold the fort,” said Gonzales. “It was not a clean match. We had the chance to go out in mind.”
Anthony and Aiden may have been teammates this season, but Aiden was transferred to Mission Viejo.
This is the first time that the brothers have appeared against each other. The only other opportunity they would have is if the two teams make the playoffs and launchers combine. As respective, this could happen.
“It would be great to get back against them,” said Aiden Chapuis.
But next time, it will not be – as he called it – “just another game”.
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
