Free State High junior Dale Miller (25) slides safely into second base as Olathe East junior Grant Lathrop is unable to handle the throw during their game Thursday at FSHS.

Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson won’t be calling to acquire a video of Free State High’s 6-5 victory against visiting Olathe East any time soon. The game, played on yet another ultra-windy day Thursday was less than a classic.

Idelson might, however, be interested in framing the scorecard in Cooperstown to illustrate how it’s possible for a game that features 11 runs to have just one RBI.

Zion Bowlin, third baseman for the Firebirds (6-1), had a couple of nice trips to the plate during his three-hit day, but a trip that resulted in the game’s only RBI just didn’t happen to be one of them.

In the second inning, Bowlin came to the plate with two outs and the bases loaded (on two walks and an infield hit). His nubber toward third base didn’t have enough juice on it to reach the third baseman in time for him to make a play, so he ate the ball without making a throw and Matt Hill scored from third with a run that put Free State up 3-2.

Bowlin’s infield hit off the end of the bat stood up as the game-winning RBI. Bowlin also lined a single to center and one to right.

“It was an outside pitch, so I just rolled over, got lucky pretty much,” Bowlin said.

Oklahoma-bound Trevor Munsch (2-1) was the winning pitcher, but he wasn’t boasting afterward. Munsch struck out nine batters, walked six and allowed two hits in his five-inning start.

“That was probably one of the worst outings I’ve had at Free State,” Munsch said. “I can’t walk that many. It’s just not acceptable, but it worked out. We got the win, but I’ve got to get better. I couldn’t control my fastball and it got in my head somewhat. It can’t happen again.”

A long, lean left-hander armed with a nasty breaking ball, missed some time during last season’s state-championship season with a sore elbow.

“It has felt so much better than last year,” Munsch said. “I’m staying healthy and it’s going well for the most part.”

Munsch’s first inning painted an accurate forecast for his day in that it featured him struggling to find the strike zone and escaping in the clutch. He walked the bases loaded and escaped the jam unscathed on a called third strike. The first six batters: Walk, strikeout, walk, strikeout, walk, strikeout.

“Trevor came through when we needed him to come through,” Bowlin said. “We can definitely show better than we did tonight.”

Both teams scored one run on a double-steal, one run on an infielder’s throwing error to third base to try to nail a runner taking an extra base. Free State scored a run on a balk, Olathe East two runs on wild pitches.

“Almost every conceivable way to score without the tradition way, which is get a base hit with a guy in scoring position. It was a weird baseball game. We have a recipe for success,” Free State coach Mike Hill said, meaning pitching and defense. “We’ve been able to play to that recipe on a consistent basis and today we got totally away from that. We have very good pitchers. Today just wasn’t their day. We didn’t make a lot of physical errors, but mentally from a defensive perspective we were not what we should be.”

The standings don’t ask how, just how many.

“You can bemoan that,” Hill said of the quality of the game. “On the other hand, we still won a ballgame. Despite not playing the way we want to play, we won.”

A number of hitters produced quality at bats, including Bradley Collicott, who reached on an infield hit and drew two walks, and Kyle Abrahamson, who smashed a high fly to the gap in right-center for a leadoff double in the two-run fourth, an inning that ended with Free State building its lead to 6-3.

Olathe East staged a two-run rally in the seventh, but it fell short when junior right-hander Aaron Funk struck out the final two batters to leave a runner stranded on third. His funky inning on the mound actually included four strikeouts. Olathe East’s Kurt Paldino made it all the way to second base on a strikeout/wild pitch.

Perhaps the answer to Free State and the Hawks (3-4), two solid baseball teams, playing an atypically sloppy game was blowing in the wind.

Can you ever remember such a windy spring?

“No, I cannot,” said Hill, the coach, not the shortstop. “It has been really bad. Baseball players can adapt to the cold. They can even play with moisture, but the wind is not fun. It changes the game, but it changes the game for both teams. It’s been awfully bad.”

Olathe East 020 100 2 — 5 4 2

Free State 211 200 X — 6 8 1

W — Trevor Munsch (2-1). L — Spencer Nelson. S — Aaron Funk.

2B — Kyle Abrahamson , FSHS.

FSHS highlights — Munsch, 5 IP, 2 H, 6 BB, 9 K; Jacob Pavlyak 2 BB, SB; Bradley Collicott single, 2 BB.