Santos, Cardinals Shut Down Marauders

Jupiter, FL - The Palm Beach Cardinals (68-53, 28-26) pitching staff held the Bradenton Marauders (65-57, 28-27) to just three hits as they won 3-0 on Sunday evening.
Ramon Santos was given the start by Dann Bilardello and twirled six shutout innings while only giving up three hits. He walked two and struck out five in the game.
Palm Beach got on the board first in the bottom of the second inning. Blake Drake singled with one out, José Godoy drew a walk and Luke Dykstra got hit by the first pitch he saw. Vince Jackson came up and struck out for the second out of the inning. Jose Martinez battled in a long at bat and on the eighth pitch, hit a hard comebacker right at the pitcher who could not quite field it and drove in Drake for the first run of the game and a 1-0 lead.
Bradenton threatened in the fifth inning as Carlos Munoz drew a one out walk in the inning. Logan Rutledge hit a double to left that got into the corner. Munoz tried to score from first and Jose Martinez threw a perfect bullet to Jose Godoy to get the second out at the plate. Santos ended the inning with a fly ball to left to hold the 1-0 lead.
In the sixth inning, Leobaldo Pina hit a two-out double down the right field line and was driven in by a Drake double in the left-center gap to make it a 2-0 ballgame.
Eric Carter took over in the seventh and held the Marauders scoreless in the frame. The Cardinals added another insurance run in the eighth as Jackson scored on a Casey Grayson ground ball that he beat out to avoid the double play with the bases loaded.
Carter tossed a scoreless eighth as well and handed the ball over to Jordan Hicks for the ninth. Hicks threw 10 pitches, nine strikes to close out the 3-0 victory with two strikeouts in the inning topping out at over 100 on the radar gun.