Freedom Drop Tight Season Finale
Published on September 4, 2016 under Frontier League (FL)
Florence Y'alls News Release
Normal, Ill. - The Florence Freedom, presented by Titan Mechanical Solutions, ended their 2016 season with a 4-2 loss to the Normal CornBelters.
The Freedom finish the year with a 46-49 record. Florence posted the second best mark in the Frontier League after June 22 (38-25) and won seven of their last eight games.
In today's matchup, the CornBelters (45-50) found the board first on an RBI single from Elvin Rodriguez in the third, but Florence starter Jordan Kraus stranded the bases loaded to escape further damage.
In the fifth, Jordan Brower led off the inning with a single and then Travis Weaver delivered a double down the left-field line, sending Brower home from first and tying the score at one.
In the sixth, the Freedom got a pair of walks to leadoff the inning. Collins Cuthrell went to third on a flyout from Brower and crossed the plate on a balk to give the Freedom a 2-1 lead.
Normal tied the score in the sixth on an RBI single from Dylan Kelly. Jordan Kraus finished 6 2/3 innings in his final outing of the season, tossing 122 pitches and allowing two runs on six hits and three walks, while striking out five.
The CornBelters took the lead in the eighth with two runs on four walks and one hit and held on for the victory.
Weaver (double, RBI) and Brower (run) led the team with two hits each, while Cuthrell and Isaac Wenrich posted one. Patrick McGrath, Pete Levitt, and Ethan Gibbons all threw in the eighth out of the Freedom bullpen.
Rodriguez totaled a 2-for-2 day with an RBI to lead Normal, while their manager Brooks Carey earned his 200th win as manager of the CornBelters.
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The Florence Freedom are members of the 12-team professional Independent Frontier League and play a 96 game schedule, with 48 home games at UC Health Stadium, located at 7950 Freedom Way in Florence, Kentucky. In 2015, the Frontier League recognized the Freedom as the league's organization of the year and awarded the team with the league's All-Star event. The 2016 season will mark the 13th year the Freedom have played in Florence.
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