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RailCats Lose Lead in Ninth, Fall 6-5 in Fargo

June 1, 2006 - Northern League (NL)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release


Fargo, N.D. - Brent Krause's bloop single to right with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning brought in Allen Mottram from second with the winning run as the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks defeated the Gary SouthShore RailCats 6-5 on Thursday afternoon to complete a four game series sweep. The RedHawks won for the 11th time in the last 12 games while the RailCats lost for the eighth time in the last nine. Gary is 3-11 on the year.

The RailCats broke a 4-4 tie in the eighth inning when Chris Curry doubled to right with one out and Jay Pecci delivered a two-out single to drive in pinch runner Alex Taylor to make it 5-4.

RailCats reliever Travis Kerber pitched a perfect bottom of the eighth but ran into immediate problems in the ninth when he walked the first batter of the inning, Jesse Hoorelbeke, on four pitches. Mottram singled to center to move Hoorelbeke to third. Kerber got Kory Wayment to pop to second for the first out, but walked the ninth hitter in the RedHawks order, Craig Ringe, to load the bases. Joe Mathis flied to left to bring in Hoorelbeke from third and tie the game. Krause followed with a shallow fly ball to right that landed just fair well beyond the reach of charging right fielder Mike Coles to bring in the winning run.

Gary scored two runs in the top of the first to take their first lead of the series on an RBI single by Tanner Townsend and a run scoring double by Nathan Haynes. But Fargo-Moorhead tied the game in the bottom of the first on Hoorelbeke's two-out, two-run single.

Gary regained the lead in the fifth on a run-scoring single by Brad Vericker with two outs, but Fargo-Moorhead answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning on a two-out double by Derek Dormenen to make it 4-3.

Steve Haake's run-scoring single in the sixth for the RailCats tied the game at 4-4.

RailCats starter Josh Habel lasted just four and two-thirds innings, allowing four hits and four runs with three walks and one strikeout. Reliever Steve Edsall gave the club a quality performance, going two and one-third, and allowing just one man to reach base and no runs. Kerber went the final one and two-thirds, allowing two runs to take the loss and fall to 0-2.

Pecci had three singles to lead an 11 hit RailCats attack.

The RailCats begin a three game series at Schaumburg on Friday at 7:05 p.m. Jason Shelley (0-2, 5.25) will start for Gary.

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