Blowfish Win Rain-Soaked Marathon in Peninsula

June 17, 2015 - Coastal Plain League (Coastal Plain)
Lexington County Blowfish News Release


Hampton, Va. (June 17, 2015) - It took over five hours, but the Lexington County Blowfish Baseball Club extended its winning streak to three games with a 9-6 win over the Peninsula Pilots on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

The first rain delay occurred after the bottom of the sixth inning, when Trevor Bradley (USC-Aiken) struck out two of three batters he faced.

Once both teams prepared for the seventh inning, heavy rain fell from the heavens. The resulting thunderstorm delayed play for almost 50 minutes.

J.D. Crowe (Francis Marion) smashed a line shot down the right field line resulting in a triple to give the Blowfish a huge scoring opportunity. Madison Stokes (University of South Carolina) subsequently drove him in with an RBI single to tie the game.

Then, the rain returned. This time, harder than before.

Over an hour later, when play resumed for a second time, Stokes scored on a wild pitch to give the Blowfish a one-run lead. The eighth inning would see the Blowfish tack on four insurance runs. Jared Williams' (University of South Carolina) bunt single resulted in an error by the Peninsula pitcher, scoring both Dalton Duty (University of Central Florida) and Kyle Bailey (Anderson University). Both Duty and Bailey reached on walks.

Stokes would add his third RBI of the day--a double--to score Williams. Stokes would then score on a wild pitch.

Peninsula would not quit. A combination of Erik Davis (USC-Aiken) and Jae Skoda (University of New Orleans) had to close the door on a bases loaded opportunity with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth. Davis would record the first out, a strikeout of Conner Myers, and Skoda struck out Will Shepherd, and forced Nick Lustrino to ground into a fielder's choice to end the game.

The Blowfish's early 3-0 lead evaporated in the bottom of the second, where the Pilots scored four runs to take a 4-3 lead.

All in all, the Blowfish ripped 14 hits. The top four hitters (Williams, Crowe, Stokes and Howard Joe (Mercer)), hit an astounding 10-for-18 (.555), scoring six of the team's nine runs.

Bradley, who was credited with the win, struck out six batters in his 3.2 innings pitched. He has struck out 31 batters on the season, second in the league, and two behind league-leader Taylor Widener (University of South Carolina).

Up next for the Blowfish is a matchup with the Wilson Tobs on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. Catch all of the action on the live radio broadcast on Z93.1 FM The Lake, and on the Blowfish Baseball mobile app starting with the pregame show at 6:50 p.m.



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