RailCats Make It Five Straight
June 2, 2015 - American Association (AA)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release
OTTAWA, ON, CA - The Gary South Shore RailCats extended their winning streak to five games with a 3-1 win over the Ottawa Champions Tuesday night in Canada. The RailCats trailed 1-0 until the sixth inning when Michael Schroeder drove in JD Pulfer with the tying run off of Ottawa starter Dan Tobik.
The RailCats dodged a huge bullet in the bottom of the seventh, when Ottawa loaded the bases off of AJ Quintero. Chuck Fontana came into the game and got Mike Schwartz to ground into a home to first double play to keep the game even at one.
The South Shore then took the lead for good in the top of the 8th ,when Adam Taylor legged out an infield single off of Ottawa reliever Dan Meyer. It was one of three hits on the night for Taylor. Taylor then stole second his second stolen base of the game. Michael Schroeder moved Taylor to third with a single to center put runners at the corners. Tyler Wilson was brought into the game for Ottawa and with Michael Vaughn batting Wilson uncorked a wild pitch to bring home Taylor and to give Gary the lead.
Vaughn would then work a walk off of Wilson. The reliever would then strike out of Derek Smith but Roger Bernal stepped up and drove in the insurance run with an RBI single to left center to make it 3-1. Andy Loomis worked a 1-2-3 ninth including back to back strike outs to save the game for Gary.
The RailCats won despite a nine strike out performance from Ottawa starter Tobik, who went six innings for the Champions to a get ND. Rene Solis had another good outing for the RailCats tossing his first quality start of the year despite getting a ND as he held Ottawa to a run over six innings. Chuck Fontana (1-0) was the winner while Dan Meyer (0-1) was tagged with the loss. Loomis picked up his fourth save.
The two teams will play game two tomorrow at 10:05 am with LHP Chris Cummins (1-0, 4.50) going for the RailCats, while the Champions will counter with LHP Andrew Werner (1-1, 5.73). The game can be heard on 95.9 WEFM and on RailCatsbaseball.com.
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