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Washington Out-Slugs Rascals

August 1, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) River City Rascals

O'Fallon, Mo. - The Washington WildThings posted a season-high 16 hits and scored 11 runs, their second-highest total of the season, en-route to an 11-7 win over River City to take the first two games of a three-game series at T.R. Hughes Ballpark.

For the third-straight home game, River City (33-35) scored first, this time a single run in the first inning. Eric Williams walked to start the frame and moved to third on an overthrown pickoff attempt before Ben Hewett drove a pitch to center for a sacrifice fly and 1-0 Rascal lead.

Washington (28-39) responded with two runs in the second. After a double and walk started the inning, a botched double play allowed a run to score before the WildThings hit a sac-fly of their own to take a 2-1 lead. River City took that lead right back.

Doug Sanders singled to start the inning before, with two outs, Curran Redal hit a laser to right-center for his fourth homerun to give River City a 3-2 lead. A five-run, five-hit Washington third that was complicated by another Rascal error put the WildThings on top 7-3 and chased starting pitcher Tony Marsala (4-5) after just 2 1/3 innings, his shortest outing of the year.

River City got two of those runs back in the bottom of the third when Sanders singled in Patton after he reached on an error to start the inning before Chris Andreas doubled him to third and scored himself on a wild pitch to make the score 7-5. Patton launched his eighth homerun to start the fifth inning to close the gap to 7-6 but that would be as close as River City's comeback would get.

River City used three pitchers to get out of the sixth inning with just one run scored by Washington but the WildThings would add three more in the top of the eighth for an 11-6 lead before the Rascals added another run on an RBI triple from Jeremy Synan in the bottom of the inning but could not get the tying run to the plate in the ninth.

River City looks to salvage a game on Thursday when rookie Justin Sarratt (0-1, 4.76) takes the mound against Washington's Chris Smith (7-4, 2.93).

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