Lynchburg earns 28th come from behind win of the season
July 11, 2009 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Lynchburg Hillcats News Release
Alex Presley homered in the ninth inning to tie the game and Jared Keel homered to win the game in the tenth in Lynchburg's 7-6 victory at Winston-Salem on Saturday night. The Cats go for the series sweep on Sunday night at 5:00 p.m. at Wake Forest Baseball Park.
The Hillcats got on the board first with three runs in the top of the first inning. Dash starter Gregory Infante walked three batters, threw two wild pitched and a first inning error led to the three runs in the first.
Lynchburg pushed their lead to 5-0 in the second with more wildness from Infante, who walked the first three he faced in the second. Jordy Mercer brought in a run with a sacrifice fly in the frame and the Cats had a five-run lead without the benefit of a hit.
Winston-Salem got on the board though in the bottom of the inning with a two-run home run off the bat of Kyle Shelton, who had three hit on the night and already has six hits in the series. It stayed 5-2 until the fifth when a three-run homer from Logan Johnson would tie the game at five a piece.
Then in the bottom of the sixth, a three-base error by Jose De Los Santos would put the go-ahead run aboard to start the inning. Jimmy Gallagher drove him in with a sacrifice fly to give the Dash their first advantage of the night at 6-5.
That score held until the top of the ninth inning when Alex Presley slapped his third home run of the season over the wall in left to tie the game at six. It was the second time this season the Hillcats have homered in the ninth inning to tie a game off closer Santo Luis, who blew his sixth save of the season.
In the tenth, Jared Keel hit his sixth big fly of the season to put Lynchburg in front for good at 7-6. Harvey Garcia pitched a perfect bottom of the frame to earn his first save since 2007.
It was the 28th come from behind win of the season, the 12th time they have won in their final plate appearance and the 11th time this year the Comeback Cats have erased a deficit in the seventh inning or later.
The win went to R.J. Rodriguez (6-2) for Lynchburg (6-9, 51-33) and the loss went to Levi Maxwell (2-10) for Winston-Salem (7-7, 45-38).
On Sunday night the Hillcats go for the series sweep with left-hander Jeff Locke (2-6, 5.02) will heading to the hill for the Green & Gold opposite right-hander Jacob Rasner (2-0, 2.84) for the Dash.
First pitch is slated for 5:00 p.m. at Wake Forest Baseball Park and you can tune-in to hear all the live action beginning at 4:40 p.m. with the Hillcats On-Deck Show on KD Country FM 105.5 WKDE, 96.9 FM in Roanoke and on the web at www.kdcountry.com and www.lynchburg-hillcats.com.
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