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Dragons Score Three in Eighth to Beat Bees

Published on May 29, 2005 under Midwest League (MWL1)
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Burlington, IA (May 29, 2005) - The Dayton Dragons (21-28) rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth inning to beat the Burlington Bees (22-27) 5-3 at Community Field this afternoon. This marks the third time in the last eight games that an eighth inning rally has beaten the Bees. The Bees still lead this series two games to one.

The Dragons got on the board first with a run in the top of the first inning against Bees' starter Luis Cota. Paul Janish and Ben Himes knocked back-to-back doubles. After that, Cota went on to retire the ten batters in a row while the Bees came back on offense. In the bottom of the second, Alan Moye singled, stole second, advanced to third on a groundout, and scored on a wild pitch to tie the score. In the third, Mario Lisson drove in Irving Falu with a sacrifice fly to give the Bees a 2-1 lead.

The Dragons tied the score in the top of the fifth. With two outs, Cody Strait singled, stole second, and scored when Falu mishandled a bouncing ball off the bat of Phil Gentry for an error. In the bottom of the sixth, Miguel Vega belted a solo homer to left off of Joe Wilson in relief that put the Bees ahead 3-2.

Adam Rowe took over for Cota in the top of the seventh and struck out the side after allowing a leadoff single. In the top of the eighth, Gentry led off with a bunt single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Paul Janish. Ben Himes singled up the middle to drive in Gentry to tie the game at three. Jeremiah Piepkorn followed with a two-run homer to left that gave the Dragons the lead. Rowe (3-2) finished off the inning and suffered the loss. Greg Atencio worked the ninth. Wilson (2-0) worked the eighth inning for the win and Blake Hendley set down the Bees in order in the bottom of the ninth for his fourth save.

The Bees and Dragons will wrap up this series tomorrow afternoon at 2:00. RH Patrick Green (2-3, 3.63) will start for the Bees against RH Homer Bailey (1-1, 1.91), who is listed as the #1 prospect in the Cincinnati Reds organization according to Baseball America. The gates will open at 1:00 for a Miller Lite Dollar Monday. General admission tickets, hot dogs, pizza, popcorn, and 20oz. bottles of Pepsi products are all just $1 and all cans of Miller products are 2-for-$3 throughout the game. The game will be broadcast live on KBUR AM 1490 and KBKB AM 1360 with the pre-game show starting at 1:40.

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