Express Squander Lead, Finale to Sacramento 13-11
Published on August 12, 2010 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Round Rock Express News Release
Jeff Baisley tied the game with a three-run homer, and Eric Sogard delivered the game-winning RBI double as the Sacramento River Cats overcame an 11-run deficit for a 13-11 victory over the Round Rock Express in Wednesday night's series finale at The Dell Diamond. The Express (49-70) and River Cats (64-55) split the four-game series.
Round Rock scored nine runs in the first inning, tying the highest-scoring inning in the Triple-A era of the Express (since 2005). The Express tacked on two more runs in the second.
However, the River Cats out-hit the Express 18-2 the rest of the way, rallying for the improbable victory. Sacramento squandered an 11-run lead for a loss in its series finale at Albuquerque immediately before the series at The Dell Diamond.
With one out and the bases empty in the top of the ninth, Adrian Cardenas reached on an infield single. Michael Taylor followed with a towering fly ball that landed between three Round Rock players in left-center. Baisley followed with a three-run homer, his fifth of the season, to tie the game at 11-11.
The damage was not finished, though, as the next four batters reached safely with three straight hits and a walk. Anthony Recker doubled, and Corey Wimberly singled to put runners on the corners. Sogard followed with the game-winning double. Wimberly, who moved to third on Sogard's double, scored on a wild pitch.
Michael Benacka retired the side in order in the bottom of the ninth, striking out the game's final two batters looking. It was his fourth save of the season.
Jon Hunton (6-4), the fifth of six pitchers on the night for the River Cats, picked up the win. He worked a scoreless eighth with a walk and two strikeouts. Starter Brett Tomko did not escape the first, allowing seven runs on six hits and two walks through two-thirds of an inning.
Casey Daigle took the loss for the Express, allowing five runs on six hits and a walk with one strikeout in the ninth. Starter Josh Banks surrendered seven runs, six earned, on 11 hits and three walks with three strikeouts over 5.1 innings.
The Express posted the highest-scoring first inning in franchise history with nine runs on eight hits in the first inning. Drew Locke's three-run homer started the scoring deluge. Anderson Hernandez, Brian Esposito and Brian Bogusevic added RBI singles, Tommy Manzella had a two-run double, and a ninth run scored on a Sacramento error.
Round Rock got two runs in the second on Oswaldo Navarro's RBI groundout and an Esposito RBI single. Manzella led off the third with a single, but that was the last hit for the Express until Hernandez had a one-out single in the seventh. Those were the only Express hits after the second inning.
Sacramento got back in the game with a five-run fourth. Wimberly's two-run homer in the sixth pulled the River Cats within four runs, and Baisley had a sacrifice fly in the seventh to cut the Express lead to 11-8.
Manzella was 3-for-4 with a walk, two runs and two RBI, while Hernandez was 3-for-5 with two runs scored.
Anthony Recker was 4-for-4 with two runs scored, and Baisley finished with six RBI. Cardenas and Taylor each had three hits; the latter scored three times.
Round Rock opens a four-game series Friday at Tacoma following the season's final off-day Thursday. First pitch between the Express and Rainiers is scheduled for 9:05 p.m. CDT.
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