EL Richmond Flying Squirrels

Matheny's Walk-Off Caps Extra-Inning Thriller

Published on May 3, 2022 under Eastern League (EL)
Richmond Flying Squirrels News Release


RICHMOND, Va. - Shane Matheny's walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th sealed a 5-4, comeback victory for the Richmond Flying Squirrels against the Akron RubberDucks on Tuesday night at The Diamond.

The Flying Squirrels (13-8) scored runs in four straight innings to close out the win and have now won five consecutive games.

In the bottom of the 10th with two runners on, Matheny laced a ground ball off Nic Enright (Loss, 1-1) into right-center field and Jacob Heyward beat the throw to home plate that sent the Flying Squirrels to a 5-4 win.

Down by a run in the bottom of the ninth, Frankie Tostado rocketed an 0-2 pitch with two outs to the right field wall that plated Mike Gigliotti and tied the game, 4-4.

Richmond reliever Chris Wright (Win, 1-0) pitched a scoreless 10th inning after snagging a line drive hit at his chest and doubled off the Akron runner at second base.

Akron (11-11) took an early lead with three runs in the fourth inning against Richmond starter Kai-Wei Teng. Chris Roller lofted a sacrifice fly and Julian Escobedo lined a two-RBI double that put the RubberDucks ahead, 3-0.

Sean Roby broke the shutout in the fifth with an RBI single that scored Brandon Martorano from second base to make it 3-1.

Richmond punched another run in the seventh to cut the deficit to 3-2. Roby lined a single into right field, scoring Gigliotti from second. Roby went 3-for-4 with two RBIs.

Matheny had a home run call overturned to a double with two outs in the eighth inning. Simon Whiteman zipped an RBI single into left field that tied the game, 3-3. Each of the Flying Squirrels' game-tying hits came with two outs.

With the bases loaded and one out in the ninth inning, Bo Naylor drew a walk against Wright that put the RubberDucks ahead, 4-3. Wright covered first base during an inning-ending double play to limit Akron to the single run.

Teng finished the night with a season-high nine strikeouts over 6.0 innings. Solomon Bates followed with 2.0 scoreless innings and three strikeouts.

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