Game One of Championship Series Suspended in Fargo
September 8, 2009 - Northern League (NL)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release
FARGO, N.D. - Game One of the Northern League Championship Series at Newman Outdoor Field has been suspended by rain with the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks leading the Gary SouthShore RailCats 4-3 in the top of the fifth inning. The game will be completed Wednesday night at 5 p.m., followed by the regularly scheduled second game of the series.
The two clubs will complete nine innings Wednesday, then play a full nine inning game to close out the night and wrap up the action in Fargo, with games three through five scheduled for this weekend at U. S. Steel Yard. There will be a 30 minute break Wednesday between the end of game one and the start of game two.
Tuesday, with rain threatening even before the first pitch, the two clubs played in a steady rain from about the second inning on and when the rain intensified after a lightning delay in the fifth inning the decision was made to suspend the game. The RailCats will be batting in the top of the fifth with two runs already on the board and the tying run at second base with no one out.
Trailing 4-1 going to the fifth, Fargo starter Scott Fogelson had retired eight men in a row before walking Jeff Beachum to lead off the inning. Brett Wallace followed with a deep drive off the top of the wall in straightaway center, scoring Beachum. Chris Carrara came up next and got a bunt down, and when third baseman Jeremiah Piepkorn's throw went into right field Carrara took second and Wallace scored. Fargo went to the bullpen for T.J. Stanton at that point, and after Stanton warmed up the umpires signaled the lightning delay.
The RailCats took the lead in the second inning on a Wallace sacrifice fly, but until the fifth the rest of the action Tuesday was all Fargo-Moorhead. Garret Holleran escaped a bases loaded jam in the first with two outs, only to see the RedHawks score twice in the second on a wild pitch and a two-out Piepkorn single. Fargo got another run in the third when Carlo Cota lofted a sacrifice fly to right and made it 4-1 when Mike Coles' popup found the grass in shallow right with two outs.
Holleran went the first 3.2 innings and struggled with his command from the outset, walking four and giving up five hits. Holleran was charged with all four earned runs. Tom Thornton came on in the fourth and gave up the Coles hit before striking out Ruben Salazar to end the inning.
Thornton will be on the mound opposite Stanton when the game resumes Wednesday night. Neither team has announced a starter for Game Two later Wednesday night. Both games will be broadcast live, in their entirety, on 89.1 FM, The Lakeshore, and online at www.railcatsbaseball.com.
Northern League Stories from September 8, 2009
- Game One of Championship Series Suspended in Fargo - Gary SouthShore Railcats
- RedHawks and RailCats Halted by Rain - Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks
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