Meadowdale senior comes up clutch with first home run

Tommy Dimmock sure picked a good time for his first varsity home run.

With two out in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Meadowdale senior crushed a walk-off two-run homer to lift the Mavericks to a 6-5 win over rival Edmonds-Woodway on April 10.

“You don’t see a lot of (walk-off homers) in high school baseball,” Meadowdale coach Bill Hummel said. “You turn on ESPN and watch Major League Baseball highlights and you see it about every other day almost. But in high school baseball, it’s pretty rare.”

Meadowdale senior and Seattle University signee Travis Hagan, who homered earlier in the game, began the seventh-inning rally with a two-out walk.

Dimmock then blasted a 1-2 fastball over the center-field fence to give the Mavericks a dramatic victory over the defending Wesco 3A South champions.

“You knew right off the bat that he got all of it,” Hummel said. “The ball had a nice loft to it and was one of those balls that really hung up there, because he really back-spun it. It was … just high and deep and gone.”

Dimmock is batting .355 with 14 RBI for Meadowdale (9-3 overall, 7-2 Wesco 3A), which is off to its best overall start in more than a decade. The Mavericks average 6.2 runs per game, up from 3.6 runs per contest last season.

“We kind of leaned on these seniors a little bit when the season started and put a little pressure on them,” Hummel said. “(We) said, ‘For us to have a good year, you guys really have to perform well.’ And they’ve accepted that challenge and stepped up.”