RailCats Lose Series Finale in Winnipeg
Published on July 3, 2007 under Northern League (NL)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release
Winnipeg, Manitoba-The Winnipeg Goldeyes took advantage of three errors and scored five unearned runs to break a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning to defeat the Gary SouthShore RailCats 7-2 on Tuesday afternoon before a crowd of 5,603 in Winnipeg. The Goldeyes won four of five games in the series.
Winnipeg's Chris Latham connected on a solo home run with two outs in the third inning to get the Goldeyes on the scoreboard. In the fifth, they scratched across a run when Max Poulin reached on a bunt single, stole second, went to third on a sacrifice bunt, and scored on Anton French's sacrifice fly to make it 2-0.
The RailCats did not have a runner advance past first base over the first seven innings, but in the eighth, Nate Price doubled off the center field fence with one out, and one batter later, Dale Mueller drilled his first Northern League home run, a two-run shot to tie the game.
In the bottom of the eighth, Fehlandt Lentini started the inning by reaching on an error by Gary third baseman Tanner Townsend. Anton French followed with a bunt back to Gary pitcher Brad Mumma, who threw the ball wildly into center field, allowing Lentini to go to third. Latham grounded out to first as Lentini held at third, and the RailCats walked Scott Schade intentionally to load the bases. But Walter Young lined a single to right to drive in Lentini and French and make it 4-2. Antoin Gray followed with a ground ball to short that Eric Blakeley fielded and threw wildly to second allowing another run to score, and Luis Alen added a two-run single to close out the scoring.
RailCats starting pitcher Jim Paduch was outstanding, allowing just five hits including three infield singles) over seven innings but was charged with the first run in the eighth and took the loss to fall to 3-4.
The RailCats will return home on Wednesday to host Fargo-Moorhead in the start to a five game set that will conclude the first half in the Northern League's split-season format. A fireworks spectacular will follow the game Wednesday, sponsored by Krazy Kaplans and the Times of Northwest Indiana. Travis Kerber (1-1, 5.71) will start for Gary against Fargo-Moorhead's Dane Renkert (4-1, 4.28).
Notes: The RailCats went 7-7 on their 14 game road trip that concluded Tuesday...The three errors in the 8th inning were the most in a single inning by the RailCats this season.
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