DesRosier breaks runs scored record, eyes historic regular-season
HELENA — A 90-hit, 90-runs scored, 50-stolen base regular-season doesn’t exist within the Helena Senators’ record book. Not yet, at least.
Shortstop Walker DesRosier resides one run scored from achieving that benchmark, adding bragging rights for the senior in search of his program’s best regular-season ever.
Saturday, in the fifth inning of Game 2 of Helena’s conference doubleheader sweep of Medicine Hat (6-5 & 11-1), DesRosier sprinted home courtesy of Aaron Fuzesy’s bloop single.
Greeted by teammates outside the third-base dugout, DesRosier broke a tie atop the Senators’ all-time single-season runs scored leaderboard. Pushing past Anthony Hogan’s 87 runs scored from 2009, DesRosier trotted home with No. 89 an inning later, part of Helena’s six-run, mercy-rule invoking frame.
“I didn’t even have it on my mind because I didn’t know where I was at or what was going on,” DesRosier said. “Hearing them say that [over public address] was pretty special because it was a shock to me.”
Game 2 was exactly the performance DesRosier stacked throughout spring into summer to accomplish record-breaking feats. He singled and scored thrice, reached base four times, and swiped three bases notching No. 50 in the nightcap's first inning.
Now thirty-three multi-hit games for DesRosier, including nine three-hit or better efforts this season.
Smiling, DesRosier greeted Hogan – the Senators’ first base coach – postgame, poising for a photo before a setting westward sun.
Helena Senators shortstop Walker DesRosier (left) broke assistant coach Anthony Hogan's 2009 regular-season runs scored program record Saturday night during a six-inning 11-1 conference victory over Medicine Hat. DesRosier has scored 89 runs and countin
