MWL1 Dayton Dragons

Loons Edge Dragons with 9th Inning Run

Published on June 14, 2012 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Dayton Dragons News Release


Midland, Mich. - Great Lakes' Delvis Morales scored from third base on a wild pitch to break a 4-4 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Loons edged the Dayton Dragons 5-4 on Thursday night. Great Lakes took two-out-of-three games in the series, ending the Dragons streak of consecutive series wins at four.

With the game tied at 4-4, the Loons game-winning rally started when Delvis Morales singled to center field with one out in the bottom of the ninth. Morales raced around to third on a single to center by James Baldwin. After the Dragons intentionally walked Jesus Arredondo to load the bases, Pedro Guerrero popped out to third base for the second out of the inning. But Dragons reliever Ryan Kemp uncorked a wild pitch on a 1-1 delivery as Morales scored easily to end the game.

Great Lakes took the lead on the first inning on a solo home run by Angelo Songco, and added another run in the fourth on Songco's run-scoring double to make it 2-0.

Dayton's Kyle Waldrop blasted a home run to right field in the fifth inning with the bases empty to make it a 2-1 game. It was Waldrop's fourth homer of the season. Great Lakes scored in the sixth on a two-out single by O'Koyea Dickson to again lead by two runs at 3-1.

The Dragons scored three runs in the seventh to take the lead. Waldrop walked to start the inning and went to third on Sean Buckley's double. Waldrop scored on a ground out by Yovan Gonzalez, and Buckley came in on Juan Perez's single to right field to tie the game at 3-3 as Perez took second on the throw home. The next batter, Jefry Sierra, hit a ground ball that was misplayed by Morales, the Great Lakes shortstop, for an error that allowed Perez to score the tie-breaking run as the Dragons took a 4-3 lead.

Great Lakes scored the tying run in the bottom of the eighth on a two-out run-scoring single by Scott Schebler to make it 4-4.

Dragons starting pitcher Daniel Tuttle worked the first five innings, allowing four hits and two runs with no walks and four strikeouts. Mike Dennhardt followed Tuttle and worked two innings, allowing one run on three hits with one walk. Kemp worked the final inning and two-thirds, allowing five hits, two walks, and two runs to suffer the loss and fall to 1-1.

The Dragons collected seven hits. Joe Terry and Juan Silva each went 2 for 4.

The Dragons (28-39) open a new three-game series at Lake County on Friday at 7:00 p.m. (WONE 980 AM). Radhames Quezada (4-6, 3.82) will start for Dayton against Lake County's Joe Colon (5-6, 2.83). The series will conclude the first half of the Midwest League's split-season format.

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