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? Win Final Game, Ghost Hounds Walk off Their First

June 24, 2023 - Atlantic League (AtL)
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FREDERICK, MD - After Friday night's rainout, Frederick and York played a doubleheader on Saturday with an interesting twist. Frederick would play game one in their question mark jerseys, and game two would see the debut of the team's new identity.

After two straight one out singles in the bottom of the first in game one, Raudy Read hit a deep sacrifice fly to center field to score Starlin Castro.

It would not take long for York to answer, however. After a one out Trey Martin double, he advanced to third on a balk by Max Povse. The next batter, Alexis Pantoja, knocked him in with a hit.

Frederick got the run back immediately on a Kole Cottam home run, and finished the inning with three runs thanks to an Osvaldo Abreu groundout and another home run by Leobaldo Cabrera.

However, things began to unravel for Frederick in the top of the third. Nate Peden walked the first four batters of the inning, with the last of the four resulting in a run and Peden's removal from the game. Max Tannenbaum entered, hitting the first batter he faced and then allowing another run to score via a wild pitch. Ryan January then delivered York's only hit of the inning, a two run double to right center field. This completed a five-run frame for the Revolution, who suddenly led 6-4.

Jeff Singer struck out the side in the fourth, and retired the first two he faced in the fifth. However, Singer rattled off his own string of four straight walks to bring home another run.

Osvaldo Abreu led off the bottom of the fifth with a broken bat single, and after a Jimmy Paredes walk, Frederick had two on and two out for Raudy Read, who blasted a game tying three run home run to left center field to tie the game at seven.

Luke Becker knocked a one out single in the sixth inning as rain began to fall. As a downpour commenced, Scott Kelly drove a double into the right centerfield gap to score Becker and give Frederick the 8-7 lead.

After a 45-minute rain delay, Zac Rosscup struck out the side in the seventh to close down the 8-7 win and officially close the book on the question mark era.

In between games, the Frederick club took the field as their new identity, the Spire City Ghost Hounds.

York struck first in game two on back-to-back singles from Jhon Nunez and Alexis Pantoja in the second inning.

Starlin Castro cut that lead in half in the bottom of the third with an RBI single, but York got two more of their own in the fourth, making it 4-1.

The first home run in the Ghost Hounds threads belonged to Jimmy Paredes who uncorked a solo home run to right field to cut the lead in half again, to 4-2.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, Craig Dedelow knocked in two runs on a single that turned into an error on center fielder Tomo Otosaka, allowing Dedelow to make it all the way to third. Dedelow proceeded to score on a wild pitch to give Spire City the lead.

In the sixth inning with two outs, York's Drew Mendoza hit a pop fly that could have ended the inning, but instead fell into shallow left field. That set of a chain of events that would result in six York runs scoring with two outs. A Troy Stokes Jr two run double, Nellie Rodriguez double, and Jhon Nunez three run home run contributed to the total. They added one more insurance run in the top of the seventh, sending Frederick to the plate down 11-5.

With one out, Craig Dedelow and Jimmy Paredes hit back-to-back home runs to bring it to an 11-7 game. It was Dedelow's 100th home run of his pro career.

After Moises Sierra doubled and moved up to third base on two consecutive wild pitches, he scored on a Kole Cottam single. After Luke Becker walked, designated pinch runner Scott Kelly scored on a single by Leobaldo Cabrera. Suddenly Cabrera, who represented the tying run was on first base. Almost immediately, he found himself on second base on a Denson Hull wild pitch.

Because of the wild pitch, Becker was able to score on a Starlin Castro groundout, cutting the game to 11-10. With a full count and two outs, Jose Marmolejos tied the game with a ground rule double to deep center field, just narrowly missing a walk off home run.

But the walk off would not wait long, as Raudy Read dropped a double down the left field line to win the game for the Ghost Hounds, their second seven run final frame comeback of the season.

It was a special night in the Spire City that had just about everything, and the new era was kicked off with an incredible comeback.

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