Washington Drops First Road Game of 2024
FLORENCE, Ky. (June 1) – The Washington Wild Things entered Saturday with a 9-0 record on the season on the road, and have finally been defeated, as they fell 7-6 in 10 innings to the Y’alls, evening the weekend series. Florence won on a sacrifice fly in the 10th by Langston Ginder.
Florence struck first and often in the first five frames. The Y’alls used four home runs to score five of their first six runs of the night. In the first, Alberti Chavez swung at the first pitch of the home half and homered. Ginder homered in the second and Brian Fuentes in the third before Zade Richardson hit an RBI single making it 4-1. Washington’s first run came in the second on the first of two home runs by Tommy Caufield on the night.
Weather came in the fourth, which effected the rest of the game. Andrew Czech walked before a 15-minute rain delay stopped play in the fourth. The walk, one of Czech’s two drawn tonight, extended his franchise-record on-base streak to 51 games. Tyreque Reed followed the delay with a single. Both Czech and Reed came across as two of three runs to tie the game on Caufield’s second homer of the night, a three-run shot. Caleb McNeely grounded home Washington’s fourth run of the fourth inning, giving the Wild Things a 5-4 lead.
In the fifth, Hank Zeisler hit a two-run homer to give the Y’alls a 6-5 lead. Washington wouldn’t pull even, despite chances, until the eighth inning on a sacrifice fly to center by Caleb McNeely that plated JC Santini. The final scoring play was Ginder’s 10th-inning walk-off sac fly.
The Wild Things and Y’alls will play their rubber game tomorrow afternoon at 1:07 p.m.
