AtL Lancaster Stormers

Boyer Rallies 'stormers In Ninth

Published on April 27, 2012 under Atlantic League (AtL)
Lancaster Stormers News Release


Brad Boyer's third hit of the night, a triple down the first base line, keyed a three-run ninth inning as Lancaster downed the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, 6-4, Friday evening at Regency Furniture Stadium.

The Barnstormers win evened the season-opening series at one game apiece.

Jaime Pedroza triggered the uprising with a leadoff single to right center off Jim Ed Warden (0-1). Warden fanned Adam Godwin for the first out, but a wild pitch sent Pedroza to second. Boyer followed with a smash past first baseman Matt Padgett down into the corner as Pedroza scampered home with the tying run. With the infield pulled tight, Terry Tiffee hit a sharp one hopper off the glove of shortstop Chin Lung Hu that rolled into foul ground for an RBI double. A second wild pitch chased Tiffee to third, and he scored on a sacrifice fly by Tommy Everidge for the 6-4 edge.

Tim Hamulack tossed a perfect ninth for his first save.

Kody Kirkland gave the Barnstormers a 2-1 lead in the third with a line drive home run to the far corner of the picnic deck. Southern Maryland answered right away in the bottom of the inning. Casey Benjamin banged a one-out single into right, and Chin Lung walked. Travis Garcia snuck a single up the middle to score Benjamin. Chin Lung was cut down at third by Godwin.

Mike Daniel doubled to deep right to start the fourth and scored the go-ahead run on a bunt and wild pitch. Benjamin's long homer to center in the fifth boosted the Crabs lead to 4-2.

Singles by Blake Gailen and Fehlandt Lentini with one out in the sixth set the stage for the third Barnstormers run. Both men advanced on a chopped to the right side by Emerson Frostad. Kirkland lashed a liner off reliever Rayner Oliveros and reached on an RBI single as the ball trickled loose in the infield.

Lancaster's bullpen kept the game within reach, allowing only one hit over four innings. Mike Johnston (1-0) threw only one pitch, a fly out to center by Padgett, to earn the win.

The Barnstormers will send lefty Rich Rundles (1-3 at Memphis in 2011) to the hill on Saturday at 6:35 against right-hander Dan Reichert. Reichert set the Atlantic League single-season record with 18 wins for Southern Maryland in 2010, his last work in the ALPB. Airtime on WLAN, 1390-AM and 1390wlan.com is 6:15.

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