AtL Lancaster Stormers

Barnstormers Drop Second Straight in Extra Innings

Published on July 3, 2013 under Atlantic League (AtL)
Lancaster Stormers News Release


For the second straight night, the Barnstormers expired after the ninth inning.

Adam Godwin cracked a two-out double to right center field to drive in Russ Mitchell with the tiebreaking run, and the Sugar Land Skeeters went on to score three more in a 7-3 victory over Lancaster Wednesday evening at Clipper Magazine Stadium.

The Barnstormers fell to 0-2 in the second half standings.

Derrick Loop (1-3) walked Mitchell on four pitches to start the 10th. Esmerling Vasquez picked up the first out on a sacrifice bunt by Michael Rockett and the second on a grounder to third by Dominic Ramos. He could not get through the former Barnstormers center fielder, however, who snapped the tie with his line drive into the alley.

Vasquez walked Jeff Dominguez intentionally to face Aaron Bates, whom he also walked. John Parrish was summoned to face Travis Scott and fired consecutive wild pitches, each allowing an additional run to score. Scott then doubled over the head of Fernando Perez in right for the final tally.

The teams had exchanged runs all night. Bates clocked his fourth homer of the year off Dwayne Pollok in the first, and Blake Gailen countered with a bomb to the right center walkway in the fourth. Sugar Land grabbed the lead back on a solo homer by Rockett in the fifth. Again, Lancaster answered. Gustavo Molina singled with two outs in the bottom of the inning and chugged home on a long double to right center by Jerry Owens.

In the top of the sixth, Dominguez lined a double to right center with one out. Bates bounced a ball back to the mound. Pollok flagged it on one hop, spun and fired back to second baseman Travis Denker. Dominguez eluded the tag, giving the Skeeters runners at first and second with one out. Scott followed with an RBI single for a 3-2 lead.

Lancaster tied the game in the bottom of the frame on Daryle Ward's tenth homer of the season, a screamer just inside the pole. That home run came after an aborted start to the inning. Gailen led off with a single up the middle and advanced to second quickly on a wild pitch from Scott Elarton. He gambled and bolted for third but was thrown out by Koby Clemens for the first out of the inning.

Neither team advanced a runner beyond first base from the seventh through the ninth.

The Barnstormers will conclude the series with Sugar Land on Thursday evening with a double length fireworks show to follow. Brian Grening (4-5) hits the mound for the Barnstormers against Jason Lane (5-3). Lane has been the DH the first two games of the series. Fans may tune into 1390-AM, WLAN; 1600-AM, WPDC; 1390wlan.com; or the I Heart Radio cell phone app, beginning at 6:45. NOTES: Gailen's homer extended his hitting streak to 10...He is 17-for-41 (.415) with four homers...Ward's homer was his fourth in 13 games...Molina has cut down nine of the last 15 runners that have attempted a stolen base after throwing out two in Wednesday night's game...Sugar Land is 4-0 in extra innings against the Barnstormers this year...The Barnstormers are 0-5 in 10-inning games...Pollok threw his sixth quality start of the year.

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