Flying Squirrels Edge Senators, 7-6
Published on August 19, 2023 under Eastern League (EL)
Harrisburg Senators News Release
The Richmond Flying Squirrels rallied for three runs in the final two at bats to beat the Harrisburg Senators 7-6 Saturday night at the Diamond in Richmond. The Senators had two different multi-run leads but couldn't hold either in the walk-off loss. Harrisburg took a 3-0 lead in the first inning on a three-run home run by Trey Lipscomb. Richmond came back to take a 4-3 lead into the sixth inning when the Sens tallied twice to take the lead. They extended the lead in the seventh to 6-4 before Richmond rallied to win.
The Big Play
Sean Roby came to bat with no outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning and hit a fly ball to deep center field to plate the winning run. Earlier in the inning, Brandon Martorano led the inning off with a walk and advanced to third on a single and an error.
On Capitol Hill
Mitchell Parker started and went five innings allowing four runs on four hits while striking out eight... Tyler Schoff followed and tossed a scoreless inning... Malvin Pena went two innings, one perfect and the second he allowed two runs on three hits... Patrick Ruotolo pitched the ninth and allowed a run on one hit and took the loss.
With the Gavel
Jacob Young went 2-for-4 with a run. Young extended his hitting streak to 15 games... Trey Lipscomb went 3-for-5 with a home run, triple, three RBIs and a run... James Wood homered in five trips.
Filibusters
The Senators went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position and seven including five in scoring position... Richmond has two walk-off wins in the series, and both are come-from-behind wins... The time of the game was 2:54... The attendance was 7,233.
On the Docket
The Senators and Richmond Flying Squirrels play game six of their six-game series Sunday at 1:05 p.m. The game can be heard on CBS Sports Radio Stations 96.5 FM, 95.3 FM, and 1400 AM beginning at 12:50 p.m.
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