Mustangs KO Owlz in 8 Rounds
Published on August 13, 2023 under Pioneer League (PL)
Billings Mustangs News Release
The longest knockout round in the history of its inception results in a Mustang win.
Eight rounds of knockout round and Brendan Ryan wins it for the Ponies with one swing of the bat scraping the right field wall into the wind.
Dave Matthews and Connor Denning both came up empty in round one.
Northern Colorado's Abdel Guadalupe hit the first homer in the second round. John Michael Faile answered and sent it to a third round.
Josh Glenn hit one along with Alejandro Figueredo to force a fourth round, which ended scoreless. Figueredo almost had a game winning second homer, going over the signage on the wall, but did not clear the yellow line at Dehler which forced another round.
Four more scoreless rounds occurred, and Peyton Robertson came up empty in the first half of round eight, which set up for Brendan Ryan's towering wall scraper into the 25 mile an hour winds to give the Mustangs their second knockout round win in a week.
The Mustangs initially took a 1-0 lead in the first on a Connor Denning homer. NoCo answered with three hits in a row by Euro Diaz, a Dave Matthews double, and Tim Bouchard's single, setting up for a sac-fly by Kevin Jimenez to score Dave Matthews to make it 2-1.
The Owlz picked up a solo homer by Henry George to lead off the third.
Will Buraconack tossed five and a third innings strong giving up just the solo homer. Luke Trueman tossed five innings giving up four runs, on nine hits and a walk with four punchouts.
McLain Harris tossed three scoreless innings from the sixth through the eighth, which set up for a Mustang come back.
A leadoff single by Figueredo, and a four pitch walk to Faile, set up for a RBI double by Moralez to score Figueredo. Moralez came home on a sac fly by Emmanuel Sanchez to make it 4-3.
Denning led off the seventh with a walk and stole second which allowed Figueredo to hit him home and tie it at 4.
Keagan McGinnis tossed a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the ninth, and Cory Wills responded with his own 1-2-3 inning to force the knockout round.
The Mustangs are now 2-2 in knockout rounds this season and have taken their third series win in a row.
Billings looks for a three-game series sweep over NoCo Sunday afternoon. Coverage starts at 12:45 p.m. with first pitch at 1:05 p.m. on ESPN 910/105.5 KBLG or ESPN910.com. You can also watch every pitch on FloSports.
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