"I was kind of the sixth man of baseball," Guers said, laughing.
Then came yesterday. Take that number, add three and you'll have the number of RBI collected by Guers, a 6-3, 180-pound junior, as Germantown Academy pounded visiting Penn Charter, 12-2, in an Inter-Ac League game limited to five innings.
Filling in for the injured Alex Wilson (pulled muscle), Guers, a lefty swinger (and thrower), batted in the seven hole. His amazing afternoon went like this: two-run double into the rightfield corner, grand slam down the rightfield line, three-run homer to dead right-center.
Three-for-3 for nine RBI. (GA's field is pro-style with legitimate distances and an outfield fence.)
"I didn't hear much of a buzz from [the spectators], but my teammates were all over it," Guers said. "They kept saying they were going to try to get me another at-bat so I could go for 10 RBI and set a record. Nobody even knew if 10 was a record. Just sounded good.
"The slam was on a changeup. The others were fastballs. The slam cleared the fence by maybe 20 feet. And I'd say
