FSL Bradenton Marauders

Marauders Cap off Fantastic Road Trip with Victory

July 9, 2023 - Florida State League (FSL)
Bradenton Marauders News Release


Daytona, Fla.--- The Marauders (10-5, 45-35) and the Daytona Tortugas (8-7, 37-43) met for the final game of a six-game series at Jackie Robinson Ballpark on a hot and humid evening at the second oldest MiLB ballpark in America. The game went down to the wire, with Daytona threatening late before Rodolfo Nolasco homered in the penultimate inning to lead the Young Bucs to a 4-2 triumph.

Marauders started Alessandro Ercolani went five innings while giving up to earned runs, striking out seven Tortugas' hitters to continue his fine form of June into the month of July.

Bradenton got the scoring started in the second inning when Deivis Nadal dropped a flare into left to bring Josiah Sightler around to score, giving the Marauders an early 1-0 lead.

The advantage was doubled in the third when Josiah Sightler brought home a run on a sacrifice fly to right, getting his RBI count through eight games bringing his total to 14 and putting the score at 2-0 in favor of the good guys.

The Tortugas leveled the game in the bottom of the fourth with a run-scoring single and wild pitch plating a pair to make it a 2-2 ballgame with five innings to play.

In innings 5-7, the game went stale, with both bullpens cruising through the lineup. MLB rehabber Wil Crowe tossed 1.1 scoreless for Bradenton as the game entered the eighth still tied at 2-2.

With two outs in the eighth, Termarr Johnson lofted a Texas leaguer into center to bring Rodolfo Nolasco to the plate. Nolasco droved a ball to dead center and touched them all on his 11th homer of the year to give the Young Bucs a two-run lead with an inning to play.

In the bottom of the ninth, with two outs, Yorlin Confidan launched a ball down the leftfield line that cleared the wall, but it landed in the glove of Rodolfo Nolasco to rob Confidan of the homer, securing the 4-2 win in the series finale.

The win sealed a 5-1 series victory, the most wins in a single series for Bradenton. It sends the Marauders into the All-Star break on the backs of some of their best performances of the year.

Bradenton is back in action on Friday, July 14th, at LECOM Park to kick off a three-game series with the Dunedin Blue Jays.

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