From left to right: Michael Hurlbert (7), Hunter Bratcher (4) and Gavin Thennis (16) watch a game from the Helena Senators' dugout. Gary Marshall, BMGphotos.com
“It was good to see because we’ve been working on some adjustments kinda team-wide,” Senators head coach Jon Burnett said. “It’s good to see those pay off, we hit some balls hard [Thursday] night. Obviously we’re trying to score as many runs as possible, but it was good to see those adjustments in-game working out.”
Helena pushed across a combined 28 runs against the Bucks, capped off by a 17-run, 15-hit outburst. The Senators banged out five extra-base hits in that victory, anchored by three triples from Hunter Bratcher, Cy Miller and Tyler Tenney.
Bratcher’s triple, a two-RBI three-bagger in the fifth, gave him six on the season in just 26 games played. No other Senator has more than two triples this year as he paces the team with 11 total extra-base hits.
“He had a stretch there where it seemed like everything off the bat was a triple,” Burnett said. “I think he had four of them in a three-game stretch. He’s an athletic kid, got a little pop in his bat and he’s able to hit from gap-to-gap. When he puts a ball in the gap plus his speed, it’s something that you like to see. That’s probably one of the most exciting plays in baseball is that triple.”
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