Danville Puts Together Late Inning Comeback Win
July 19, 2011 - Appalachian League (ApL)
Danville Otterbots News Release
Pulaski, VA-The Danville Braves scored five runs in the final four innings including two in the ninth to win Monday night's game against the Pulaski Mariners. Brandon Drury tied the game in the eighth inning on a solo blast and Kurt Fleming drove two runs home in the ninth to give the team an 8-6 victory.
Danville jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top half of the first inning. Six out of their first seven batters reached base successfully. Brandon Drury and Billy Beckwith put together back-to-back doubles that scored three Danville runs.
Pulaski countered by scoring one run in the first and five in the second. Pulaski's first inning run came off of a Guillermo Pimentel single to left field scoring Dillion Hazlett. In the second, they chased Danville starter, Dan Winnie, quickly. After Winnie allowed a single in between two walks to start the inning, Winnie was lifted for Wilson Rivera.
Rivera didn't fair much better. He walked Hazlett immediately to help Pulaski to their second run of the game. Jean Acevedo then singled to right field scoring one more and leaving the bases loaded for Pulaski's best hitter, Pimentel. Pimentel singled to right field scoring another run and giving Pulaski a 4-3 lead. Jose Hernandez then reached base on a missed catch error by Beckwith on a throw from shortstop, Nick Ahmed. The error cost Danville another run. One more walk to Efrain Nunez gave Pulaski their fifth run of the inning and sixth of the game. It would also be their last of the game. Winnie was charged with three of those runs, he ended up going one plus innings, giving up four earned on two hits and allowing five bases on balls.
It was in the sixth that Danville started to chip away at their three run deficit. After Pulaski replaced pitcher, Robert Shore with Jeremy Dobbs, Ahmed led off the sixth inning with his second double of the game and fifth of 2011. Drury eventually knocked him home on a groundout to short.
For the seventh, Pulaski changed pitchers yet again. Opting to go with Bo Reeder this time around, Chase Larsson led off the inning with a single. After a Fernando De Los Santos walk, Larsson took third on a failed pickoff attempt. Kurt Fleming then hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Larsson and cut Pulaski's lead to 6-5.
The Braves didn't spend much time in the eighth before tying the game. Drury led off the eighth inning with a long shot to left field. Drury's third homerun of the 2011 campaign yielded another pitching change for the Mariners. Benjamin Cornwell placed Reeder for the remainder of the eighth inning as well as the ninth.
Danville continued to show their resiliency into the top of the ninth. With runners on first and second and no one out a passed ball allowed Larsson to move to third. De Los Santos then took second on a defensive indifference. Kurt Fleming singled up the middle to score both runs and gave the D-Braves the two runs they needed to win.
Fleming, Beckwith, and Drury combined for all eight of the team's runs batted in on Monday night. Wilson Rivera ended up pitching three innings of two hit ball striking out four. John Cornely pitched another two for Danville, not allowing a hit and striking out four as well. Jarrett Miller got the win for Danville after he pitched the final three innings of the game, allowing just one hit and getting eight out of the nine outs he was in for on strikeouts.
The Braves will continue their series with the Mariners tonight. The D-Braves will return home this Thursday, July 21. For more information on the schedule, tickets, group nights, and/or partnership opportunities please contact the Danville Braves office at (434) 797-3792, email at info@dbraves.com, or log on to www.dbraves.com.
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