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Pigs Fall to Bulls in 12th, 9-8

June 10, 2015 - International League (IL1)
Lehigh Valley IronPigs News Release


The Lehigh Valley IronPigs (21-40) came up short in a 9-8 loss to the Durham Bulls (35-26) in 12 innings on Wednesday afternoon at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

Taylor Motter's walk-off single in the bottom of the 12th scored the winning run in the form of Hak-Ju Lee who had doubled to lead off the inning. RHP Jason Berken (2.1 IP, 2 H, R, ER, BB, K) took the loss for the Pigs and falls to 3-4 on the season.

INF Leonardo Reginatto (1-0) tossed three shutout innings and allowed just two hits to earn the win for the Bulls.

The IronPigs took an early 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the first as Dom Brown (4-6, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, 3 R) laced a two-out double to right before scoring on Russ Canzler's (3-6, 2B, HR, 4 RBI, R) RBI single.

Durham got that run back right away in the home half of the same frame as Ryan Brett drew a leadoff walk, moved to second on a single, to third on a groundout and scored on J.P. Arencibia's sac fly to tie things at one apiece.

The Bulls opened up a 3-1 advantage with a two-run third inning. With the bases loaded and one out in the frame, Allan Dykstra plated a run with a sac fly before Richie Shaffer doubled off the wall in left to bring home the other run.

Brown tied things at three apiece for Lehigh Valley in the fifth with a two-run shot off of RHP Jim Miller (3.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, BB, 3 K). It was the second home run in three days for Brown and also his second home run of the season.

With the score deadlocked at three, the Bulls took a lead for the time being courtesy of a four-run sixth inning that gave them a 7-3 advantage. Shaffer hit a two-run blast off of Pigs RHP Seth Rosin (2.2 IP, 2 H, R, ER, 4 K) that served as the big blow in the frame. The other runs came via an error by Canzler in left that allowed Eugenio Velez to scamper home and Dykstra plated a run with an RBI double.

The home run by Shaffer was the fourth of the season.

Three of the four runs in the frame were charged to Pigs starter Anthony Vasquez who allowed a total of six runs (four earned) on eight hits while walking one and fanning four in 4.1 IP on the afternoon but received a no-decision.

LHP Jordan Norberto (n/d) got the start for Durham and allowed a run on five hits while fanning two over 2.2 innings of work.

The Pigs cut the lead to 7-4 in the sixth with a solo home run off the bat of Blake Forsythe, his first round-tripper of the year.

Forsythe drove in his second run of the day with an RBI groundout in the eighth that cut the Bulls lead to 7-5.

Durham tacked on a run in the home half of the same frame to make the score 8-5 courtesy of an RBI double from Reginatto. The run was charged to IronPigs LHP Nick Hill (0.0 IP, 2 H, R, ER).

Lehigh Valley was able to complete the comeback this time around though and force extras as Canzler crushed a three-run shot off of RHP Ronald Belisario (1.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, BB, K) in the top of the 9th that tied things at eight apiece. It was just the second blown save of the season for Belisario and Canzler's third home run of the season.

Pigs RHP Hector Neris (2.0 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 2 K) worked his way out of a bases loaded, two-out jam in the bottom of the ninth as he got Reginatto to fly out to center and end the threat.

The IronPigs will begin a four-game series at Harbor Park against the Norfolk Tides on Thursday night at 7:05 p.m. RHP Severino Gonzalez (1-2, 4.34) gets the start for Lehigh Valley against Norfolk LHP Chris Jones (1-4, 2.58).

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