KO Round Loss Puts Damper on Hawks Late Comeback
Published on July 4, 2021 under Pioneer League (PL)
Boise Hawks News Release
Boise, ID - The Boise Hawks once more fell in the Knock-Out round, putting a damper on their late innings comeback in a 5-4 loss to the Ogden Raptors on Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.
Both teams would score in the first, with the Raptors bringing home Charles Steele on a Jakob Goldfarb RBI fielder's choice, as he beat out the back end of an attempted 3-6-1 double play.
Boise would tie the game in the bottom half of the frame, getting Myles Miller home on a Wladimir Galindo single with two outs, that nearly took the pitcher Reza Aleaziz along with it to center field.
Ogden would hold the lead from the fourth until the bottom of the seventh, when the Boise Hawks got the bases loaded with just one out.
With Greg White standing at third, Raptors reliever, Justin Watland, balked him home to tie the game at two, then Myles Miller laid down a suicide squeeze along the first base line to bring home Roby Enriquez and give Boise a three to two lead.
That lead would evaporate on the very first batter of the 8th, with pinch-hitter Pavin Parks crushing a home run over the right field fence to tie the game up at three.
Ogden grabbed another run to move ahead, but Boise would tie it up in the final half-inning, getting Enriquez and Harris on with a walk and hit by pitch. Enriquez would be put out on the force at third on Byron Smith's sacrifice bunt attempt, before Miller would load the bases with an infield single to short.
Jason Dicochea would then draw the bases loaded walk to bring home the game tying run but that would be the last the Hawks would get, sending Boise to their third Knock-Out this season.
The first round would end homerless, with both David Maberry and Christian Funk unable to hit any, and it was more of the same in the second with Jakob Goldfarb and Wladimir Galindo hitting zero.
Excitement started building in the third, with Goldfarb hitting bombs on his fourth and fifth swings, before Galindo tied it up hitting his first on the third swing of the round, and leaving it until his final swing went over the center field wall to send it to a fourth round.
Goldfarb was feeling himself after the two homer third round, and launched three out of the park on his second, fourth and fifth swings, to win the game for the Raptors, as Galindo was unable to hit any out on his three cuts, ending the game right then and there.
Game two of the series will take place on Independence Day, with first pitch scheduled for 7:15 PM.
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