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Express Drop Finale To Tacoma 3-2 In 14 Innings

August 10, 2011 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
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ROUND ROCK, Texas - Johan Limonta homered with one out in the top of the 14th inning to give the Tacoma Rainiers a 3-2 victory over the Round Rock Express in Wednesday night's Pacific Coast League series finale at The Dell Diamond. The Express (69-50) suffered their first loss in five extra-inning home games this season. The Rainiers (60-59) won the series three games to one.

The Express maintained their nine-game lead over Albuquerque, which lost to Salt Lake 10-7, in the PCL's American Southern Division. Round Rock's magic number is down to 17.

Jarrett Grube (3-3) earned the victory for Tacoma, tossing 5.0 scoreless innings of relief on one hit and a walk with four strikeouts. Starter Anthony Vasquez allowed one run on seven hits over 7.0 innings with one walk and two strikeouts. Cesar Jimenez worked a scoreless inning, and Scott Patterson allowed Round Rock's ninth-inning run that sent the game to extra innings.

Beau Jones (0-1) took the loss for the Express despite striking out three over 2.0 innings. Starter Martin Perez allowed two runs over 5.2 innings on four hits and five walks with two strikeouts. Cody Eppley retired all four batters he faced, and Merkin Valdez struck out four in 2.0 scoreless innings. Tanner Scheppers followed with 3.0 scoreless innings, working around five hits with three strikeouts.

Brad Nelson's solo homer in the third broke a scoreless tie. It was Nelson's 20th homer of the season and fifth his last 15 games. Tacoma took the lead in the sixth on Carlos Peguero's run-scoring groundout and Mike Wilson's RBI double. Nick Green led off the bottom of the ninth with a double and later scored on Matt Kata's sacrifice fly.

Nelson, Val Majewski and Joey Butler all had two-hit games for the Express, who managed only one hit after the ninth inning.

Wilson was 3-for-4 with two walks. Limonta was 2-for-7, and Matt Tuiasosopo was 2-for-6.

Thursday is the league's final regular-season off-day. Round Rock begins an eight-game West Coast road trip Friday at Sacramento; first pitch is scheduled for 9:05 p.m. CDT. Right-hander Mark Hamburger (5-4, 4.86) will start for the Express, and left-hander Zach Jackson (10-4, 5.65 ERA) will piggy-back the start.

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