Wild Things Give Up Late Lead, Drop Game 1 in Sudden Death
POMONA, NY (June 28) – After Tuesday’s postponement, Washington jumped on the Boulders early in game one of the doubleheader at Clover Stadium Wednesday but faltered late, twice, and lost 10-9 in sudden death.
Washington, after Kobe Foster gave them a zero in the home first, scored four times in the second. The first five batters reached. Andrew Czech walked. That was followed by a two-run homer by Tristan Peterson, which served as his seventh of the season. Nick Gotta and Robert Chayka singled before Abraham Sequera drew a 12-pitch walk. After a fly out by JC Santini, Anthony Brocato lifted a sac fly to right to plate Gotta and eventually, Chayka came in to score on an RBI single by Scotty Dubrule.
New York got its only run in the bottom of the second in a small response when Joe DeLuca hit a sacrifice fly to score David Vinsky. The Wild Things took that run back, however, in the third on a sac fly by Tommy Caufield, who was pinch hitting for Nick Gotta. Gotta left the game after colliding with Tristan Peterson on a triangle-type play in the second. In the fifth, Czech blasted his ninth homer of the year to right center to make it 6-1. Santini doubled home a run in the seventh to bring it to 7-1.
Foster used just 50 pitches to work five innings of one-run ball. He fanned two and allowed three hits going to 3-1. Stephen Knapp worked a scoreless sixth and Will Solomon start the bottom of the seventh and allowed a run on a single by Giovanni Garbella. Then Pat Kivlehan knocked home two with a double and Thomas Walraven hit a three-run homer to tie it.
In the eighth, Washington scored two on a fielder’s choice and error before Garbella tied it with a two-run single in the bottom half. New York chose to hit and Walraven came through again with a walk-off sac fly to lift New York to the 10-9 win in suddent death.
Game two is coming up on FloSports and Mixlr on the Wild Things Baseball Network.
