Freedom Bring the Boom to Sweep Schaumburg
Published on July 12, 2015 under Frontier League (FL)
Florence Y'alls News Release
Sam Eberle of the Florence Freedom
(Florence Y'alls)
(Schaumburg, IL) - The Florence Freedom (24-27), presented by Titan Mechanical Solutions, swept their first road series since 2013 with a dominating 12-3 win over the Schaumburg Boomers (22-29) on Sunday afternoon.
The win pushes the Freedom to a game over .500 on the road at 11-10. The victory is the Freedom's fourth in a row, matching their longest winning streak of the season.
Florence started the game playing small ball, and finished off the Boomers by playing long ball. All-Stars Sam Eberle (a grand slam) and Gaby Juarbe (a three-run shot) homered in the contest for Florence.
Jeremy Gooding (3-2) went six and two thirds innings for the win, scattering seven hits and allowing two runs while walking two and striking out four.
Florence got on the board in the first. Justin Harris started the game with a single. One out later Collins Cuthrell drew a walk. A wild pitch moved both runners up 90 feet and Andrew Godbold drove in Harris with a RBI ground-out. Cuthrell advanced to third on the play and scored on a wild pitch to put Florence up 2-0.
Eberle started the second inning with a double. He moved to third on a deep Juarbe fly-out and scored on a Mason Salazar sacrifice fly.
Up 3-0, Florence added another run in the third as Zac Mitchell doubled to start the frame. He advanced to third on a Cuthrell fly ball and scored on a Godbold sacrifice fly.
Schaumburg got a run back in the bottom of the third to cut the Freedom lead to 4-1 as Jordan Dean singled home Justin Vasquez.
But the Freedom kept on scoring as they pushed across another run in the fourth. Eberle got things going with a single. He swiped second and moved to third on a ground-out. Steve Carrillo doubled Eberle in to extend the lead to 5-1.
Small ball was fun but the Freedom decided to hit some dingers down the stretch. In the top of the fifth, Cuthrell walked to start the frame. Godbold singled and Kyle Carter got hit by a pitch. That's when Eberle crushed a pitch over the left field fence for this sixth home run of the season, a grand slam to extend the Freedom lead to 9-1.
A Craig Massey RBI single in the sixth made the score 9-2 but the Freedom struck back in a big way in the seventh.
Godbold walked to lead-off the inning. One out later Eberle walked as well. Juarbe, who had hit the ball hard three times in the game with nothing to show for it, stepped to the dish. He proceeded to clobber a three-run homer over the fence in left-center. Juarbe's third home run of the season extended the Freedom lead to 12-2.
Schaumburg added their final run in the eighth on another Massey single but Seth Harvey finished the Boomers off in the ninth to secure the victory.
The Freedom will have Monday-Thursday off for the All-Star Break. They return to action on Friday in Traverse City, MI against the Beach Bums. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. eastern time.
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