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Eighth-Inning Rally Gives T-Bones 7-5 Win

June 23, 2006 - Northern League (NL)
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KANSAS CITY - The Kansas City T-Bones (16-18) rallied late Friday, taking advantage of two late miscues and some timely hitting to claim their fourth straight victory with a 7-5 win over the Gary SouthShore RailCats (13-20) before a crowd of 6,310 fans at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.

Trailing 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning, Greg Jacobs singled off reliever Steve Edsall to score Brandon Jones, who doubled for the second time in the contest to lead-off the frame.

Still tied in the eighth, the T-Bones benefited from two costly RailCats errors and clutch hitting to seize control of the game for good. Doug Dreher singled and advanced to second on the first of two Tanner Townsend throwing errors to start the inning, then scored the go-ahead run on Jacobs RBI ground-out. Charles Peterson added an RBI single for good measure. Byron Embry struck out two of the three hitters he faced in the ninth to close out the win and record his eighth save of the season.

Trailing 1-0 in the third, the T-Bones took what looked to be a commanding lead, scoring four times on four hits off RailCats lefthander Josh Habel. Jacobs came through with the first of his three RBI, knotting the score at 1-1 with an RBI- ground out that brought Jesse Acosta home. Peterson, who singled in the first inning, delivered a run-scoring single to center to give Kansas City its first lead. After a two-out walk to Pat Magness, followed by a Craig Hurba single to keep the scoring threat alive, Dreher delivered a two-run single to right-center to stretch the Kansas City advantage to 4-1.

In the top of the sixth, the RailCats evened the score on run-scoring singles from Andy Rohleder and Jay Pecci, knocking Kansas City starter Buddy Blair from the contest. Rohleder delivered once more the following inning off reliever Caleb Balbuena, singling home Jermaine Allensworth to give Gary SouthShore its 5-4 lead.

Balbuena (1-1) struck out two in two innings of work to pick up the victory. Ryan Miller (1-1) suffered the loss for the RailCats, allowing two unearned runs on two hits in the fateful eighth inning.

The T-Bones and RailCats will hook up again Saturday at 7:05 p.m. for game two of their three-game set. Kansas City will send RHP Jonathan Krysa (5-2, 3.25) to the mound to oppose Gary SouthShore RHP Jason Shelley (4-2, 5.13).

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