Kansas City beat RailCats
June 23, 2006 - Northern League (NL)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release
Kansas City, Kansas-The Kansas City T-Bones took advantage of two Gary errors in the eighth inning to score two unearned runs and defeat the Gary SouthShore RailCats 7-5 in the first game of a three-game series. The loss was the RailCats third straight and fifth in the last seven games.
With the game tied 5-5 in the bottom of the eighth, Kansas City's Doug Dreher led off the inning with a slow roller to the left of the mound that hit off the glove of Gary pitcher Ryan Miller before being picked up by third baseman Tanner Townsend, who threw wildly to first base allowing Dreher to go to second. After Chad Sosebee popped up a bunt attempt for the first out, Jesse Acosta hit a ground ball to third that Townsend fielded and threw low to first. RailCats first baseman Steve Haake could not dig out the skipped throw and Acosta was safe on the throwing error. Brandon Jones was then hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. Greg Jacobs hit a hard one-hopper up the middle that was fielded by RailCats shortstop Jay Pecci with a diving stop. He flipped to second for the force, and Eric McNamee's low throw was not handled by Haake allowing the tie-breaking run to score. Charles Peterson followed with a single to center to bring in the second run of the inning and give Kansas City a 7-5 lead.
Byron Embry tossed a perfect ninth for his eighth save of the season.
The RailCats battled back from an early 4-1 deficit to take a 5-4 lead. Gary scored three runs in the sixth to tie the game. Haake doubled to start the inning and scored on Andy Rohleder's single. Rohleder stole second, went to third on Chris Curry's single, and scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-3. Curry scored on a two-out single by Jay Pecci to tie the game.
The RailCats got the lead in the seventh but wasted an opportunity to score build the lead. Jermaine Allensworth walked to start the inning and went to third on Haake's single to right. Rohleder singled to right to drive in Allensworth and make it 5-4 as Haake went to second. A wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third with one out, but Townsend grounded to short, Curry struck out, and Mike Coles grounded to the pitcher to end the inning. Gary did not get another man on base.
Kansas City tied the game against Steve Edsall in the bottom of the seventh on a run-scoring single by Greg Jacobs, setting the stage for their eighth inning rally.
The two clubs meet again Saturday at 7:05 p.m. Jason Shelley (4-2) of Gary will oppose Kansas City's Jonathan Krysa (5-2).
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