Foster Sets Season K Record, Wild Things Win Franchise Record 64th
CRESTWOOD, Il. (August 28) – The Washington Wild Things defeated the Windy City ThunderBolts by a final of 6-3 in late comeback fashion. The win was Washington’s 64th of the season setting a new franchise record with it, passing the 2005 team’s 63 wins, which Washington evened Sunday.
During the win, Kobe Foster started and whiffed five hitters setting a new single-season franchise record in the process as he passed Ben Ally’s 124 punchouts in 2005 with his fourth of five tonight, fanning former Wild Thing Robert Chayka in the fifth inning.
Foster worked Washington’s 53rd quality start of the season and his 13th, logging six innings of two-run ball. He had the five strikeouts and allowed two hits and three walks. He did not get a decision.
Washington opened the scoring on a two-run homer by Andrew Czech in the second, his 17th of the campaign. Windy City scored twice, including one on a balk in the fourth to tie the game. The ThunderBolts then grabbed a short-lived lead in the seventh on an RBI single by Michael Seegers.
In the eighth, the Wild Things got three RBI doubles. Caleb McNeely, Tyreque Reed and Wagner Lagrange hit those to give Washington a 5-3 lead before Czech made it 6-3 in the same frame with an RBI single to left. The four-run frame allowed Washington’s Alex Carrillo to be the winning pitcher. Christian James pitched a scoreless eighth and Gyeongju Kim a scoreless ninth to earn his 26th save of the season. That’s still the league’s lead.
Reed and Lagrange both had two hits while Andrew Czech had three and batted in three.
Washington will look for the series victory to conclude the regular season road schedule tomorrow night at 7:35/6:35 p.m. CT. Zach Kirby will go for Washington against Will Armbruester for Windy City.
