and walked two. Will Fortier ….

and walked two. Will Fortier went 2.1 innings, allowing four hits and two earned runs. He walked one.

Medford 5, Hodags 1

Guden homered to lead off the bottom of the first and Alexander came within one pitch of a shutout in his second straight solid outing to start the spring in a 5-1 win over Rhinelander Thursday at Raider Field.

Alexander was the second Raider pitcher in a four-day span to come up one out shy of a complete game. He went 6.2 innings, allowing just four hits and three walks while striking out eight. Rhinelander’s seventh-inning run was unearned and scored on Isaac Bixby’s two-out single up the middle.

With runners on the corners, Baumgartner needed one pitch to end the game, getting Joe Schneider to bounce out to Nate Retterath at first base.

Offensively, the Raiders didn’t make a ton of solid contact against Schneider and reliever Quinn Lamers, but they took advantage of their opportunities to build a comfortable lead by the middle innings.

Guden’s first-inning homer to rightcenter came on a 2-2 pitch from Schneider, who pitched the first four innings for the Hodags. Guden was the Raider who pitched 6.2 innings on May 3 in a 3-1 win at Rhinelander. Tanner Hraby followed the homer with a base hit and he advanced to third on an errant pickoff throw and wild pitch. He scored on a sacrifi ce fly to right by Seidl.

The Raiders doubled their lead in the third. Seidl singled, stole second and went to third on a passed ball. After Alexander walked with one out, Baumgartner hit a fly ball to shallow center that Hodag Tim Fox had to make a diving catch on. That allowed Seidl to walk home on the sacrifice fly. Retterath beat out an infield hit and Grunwald beat the throw after a bobble on his ground ball to third to drive in Mudgett, who courtesy ran for Alexander.

Hraby doubled to right-center in the fourth and scored on a two-out error on a ball hit by Brigham Kelley.

Grunwald went two for three and was on base three times out of the ninth spot in the batting order. Hraby was two for four. The Raiders got six hits off Schneider, who struck out four and walked three. Lamers allowed two hits in two innings, struck out one and walked one.