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M-Braves Nip Biscuits, 7-6

Published on June 29, 2021 under Southern League (SL)
Montgomery Biscuits News Release


MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Biscuits (22-25) squandered a pair of three-run leads and dropped a tough one to the first-place Mississippi Braves (30-19), 7-6, in Tuesday night's series opener at Riverwalk Stadium.

Peyton Battenfield made his third Double-A start and retired the first four batters he faced before allowing a one-out single to Braden Shewmake in the second. Xavier Edwards drew a one-out walk, stole second, reached third on an error, and scored the game's first run on a Bryce Elder wild pitch to make it 1-0 Biscuits in the bottom of the first. RBI-singles from Ruben Cardenas and Jim Haley tripled that lead to 3-0 later in the inning.

Battenfield's consecutive scoreless inning streak to begin his Double-A career would end at 13.1 after the M-Braves scored their first run of the game on an Edwards throwing error from second to first on a double play attempt. Shea Langeliers then hit a 462-foot home run off the videoboard in left-center to make it a 3-2 game.

Jim Haley would score on a strike-them-out-throw-them-out double play of Ford Proctor and Moises Gomez to make it 4-2 in the fourth, before Greyson Jenista's towering solo homer to left in the fifth made it a one-run game again at 4-3.

The Biscuits would try to pull away in the bottom of the fifth with Miles Mastrobuoni's RBI-triple and Jonathan Aranda's sac fly that made it 6-3. But Mississippi countered with two runs of their own in the top of the sixth on a Drew Lugbauer RBI-single and a Jenista sac fly to make it a one-run game at 6-5 against Jack Laboksy.

Ivan Pelaez came on to try to preserve the one-run lead in the eighth, and even though the left-hander struck out the side in the inning, he allowed a lead-off single to Shewmake and then a go-ahead two-run homer to Lugbauer to put Mississippi ahead for good at 7-6.

The Biscuits will try to bounce back on Wednesday when Tobias Myers (3-3) takes on Spencer Strider (0-0) at 6:35 PM CT when it will be Left Handers Day & Military Wednesday presented by WOW!

The rest of the series will include a Summer Tank Top Giveaway by ALFA Insurance on Thursday, July 1; A Sleeve Cooler Giveaway presented by 95.1 The Fox on Friday, July 2; Patriotic Night with MAX Fireworks on Saturday, July 3; And an Independence Day Celebration with MAX Fireworks on Sunday, July 4.

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