October 9, 2021

By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

We’re unsure of the combined hit total for players with the last name Naylor have managed at a Perfect Game event.

Yet, on Day 1 of the 23rd annual Perfect Game World Wood Bat Association championship in Jupiter, Fla. the Naylor hit total jumped again ... and again.

Josh Naylor was the first brother to collect Perfect Game hits with his perfect swing leading up until the 2015 draft and then along came Bo Naylor leading up to the 2018. Both were first-rounders ... Josh 12th overall to the Miami Marlins and Bo 29th to Cleveland.

It would be unfair to expect the third brother to be a first-rounder in 2023 when he is drafted eligible. But Myles Naylor is at a PG event in front of 100s of scouts and he is hacking. He is also with the Junior National Team and compares athletically to Bo, who is a catcher now, but some scouts wanted to draft him as an infielder.

Myles Naylor, the youngest of the three Mississauga brothers, went 3-for-3 with a double as the Ontario Blue Jays lost their opening game 5-4 to the Texas Twelve.

C Sam White (Aurora, Ont.), DH Corey Morro (Cheltenham, Ont.) and SS Manny Alberto (Aurora, Ont.) each had two singles apiece, while Jackson Somerville (Burlington, Ont.) and Jorge Valdes (Milton, Ont.) had one. Morro, Somerville and Valdes knocked in a run each.

Liam Watt (Burlington, Ont.) started and pitched 3 2/3 innings allowing one unearned run. Max Burroughsford (Port Dover, Ont.) was next, working two innings as he, too, allowed an unearned run. Watt threw 53 pitches (67% for strikes) striking out three and walking one as his fastball was clocked at 85 MPH. Burroughsford threw 30 pitches (56% strikes) and hit 85 MPH.

The Texas Twelve trailed 4-2 entering the final inning, but rallied against Makaio Cisneros (Whitby, Ont.) and Quinn Tavares (Mississauga, Ont.) for three unearned runs on three singles, an error and a walk.

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Caleb Clark put up two zeros for the Ohio Warhawks in a first-round 2-2 tie against Team Elite Prime.

LHP Clark (Orillia, Ont.) was dominant, as he allowed a single to the No. 2 hitter of the game and after that? Nada ... as he recorded strikeouts for four of the six men he retired. And he only needed 21 pitches (71% strikes) to set down Team Elite Prime in two innings.

Hall of Famer Whitey Ford used to say the perfect number of pitches for one inning was 14. Clark, a member of the Great Lake Canadians, was way under par -- seven pitches -- with 21 (71% strikes) and sitting at 85-90 MPH.

Clark has committed to be a University of Nebraska Cornhusker ... where his coach Adam Stern went to class.

Clark did not pitch for the Warhawks in a 2-2 tie against the 643 DP Baseball Academy.

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Jackson Soucie pitched four innings for the Midland Redskins in an 8-1 loss. Soucie (Cambridge, Ont.) departed with the score 1-1 after allowing an unearned run. He allowed two hits and walked three, while striking out a pair. He threw 56 pitches (55% strikes) and hit 89 MPH.

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Ontario Terriers CF Cameron Chee-Aloy (Toronto, Ont.) singled as the San Diego Padres Scout Team lost its opener 6-2 to the South Charlotte Panthers 6-2.

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RHP Chase Marshall (Surrey, BC) did not pitch as the Toronto Blue Jays Scout Team beat Sandlot Scout Team 2022 4-3.

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Hugh Pinkney (Etobicoke, Ont.) of the Ontario Terriers didn’t play in a first-round game win as Team Northeast doubled up Team Mizuno Puerto Rico 6-3.

In exhibition play C Pinkney walked in a pinch hit appearance as Team Northeast thumped the Next Level Titans 12-3.

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RHP Anson McGorman (Parksville, BC) pitched for the Brewers Langley Blaze in a 7-3 win over the Ontario Blue Jays in an pre-tourney exhibition game. McGorman allowed one hit and walked, striking out two in two innings. McGorman’s fastball hit 93 MPH in his 55-pitch outing (47% strikes).

CF Ty Hamilton (Orleans, Ont.) was 2-for-3 for the Brewers Langley Blaze with a fifth-inning single and a sixth-inning double. 2B Nathan Kirkpatrick (Surrey, BC) highlighted the five-run sixth with a two-run single.

The Ontario Blue Jays took a 3-2 lead into the sixth when Cincinnati’s Devin Taylor homered off Ethan Malicki (Oakville, Ont.). After a single, an out and a walk Lawson Leblanc (Georgetown, Ont.) took over. Next came a walk, an error and then Kirkpatrick’s two-run single to send partial bragging rights west

The Ontario Blue Jays went with a Johnny Wholestaff approach as James Wilson (Toronto, Ont., one inning, 10 pitches, 87 MPH, 50% strikes), Lachlan Harrison (Mississauga, Ont. one inning, one walk, 17 pitches, 79 MPH 52% strikes) and Eli Press (Toronto, Ont., one inning, 11 pitches, 84 MPH, 63% strikes) all had scoreless outings.

Isaiah Scott (Mississauga, Ont.) doubled, while Myles Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) and Jesse Dale (Toronto, Ont.) each singled for the Ontario Blue Jays three hits. Alex Ellert (White City, Sask.), Lucas Vincent (Stouffville, Ont.) and Brendan Lawson (Toronto, Ont.) each knocked in a run.

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FieldHouse Pirates’ Nathaniel Ochoa Burlington, Ont.) singled as NEB National scored five times in their final at-bat for a 5-4 exhibition game win over US Elite 2022 National.

Cameron Gurney (Burlington, Ont.) was hitless, but he was hit by a pitch in NEB’s five-run rally.

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1B Cole Leclair (Toronto, Ont.) went 2-for-2 and knocked in a run as Rawlings National Scout Team battled LVR/TB SoCal to a 3-3 tie. Leclair is hitting .750 through two games. Rhys Montgomery (Mississauga, Ont.) started for Rawlings allowing three hits a walk and one unearned run in three innings. He struck out a pair in his 45-pitch effort (62% strikes), as he hit 82 MPH.

C Brady Cerkownyk (Toronto, Ont.) singled and drove in a run, while 2B Taeg Gollert (Toronto, Ont.) knocked in a run and DH Dylan Oborne (Thornill, Ont.) was hitless.

Leclair and Cerkownyk each singled in 7-6 exhibition game loss to 3n2 Sticks Baseball.

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Blake Gillespie (Lucan, Ont.) did not play as the Team Elite Braves Scout Team blanked Blake Baseball U Prospects 2-0.

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David Alvarez (Woodbridge, Ont.) did not appear in either Prime USA’s first-round loss to 643 DP Baseball Academy or a 4-3 exhibition game loss to Baseball U Prospects.