AA Gary SouthShore Railcats

RailCats Topple Otters with Ninth Inning Rally

Published on May 9, 2013 under American Association (AA)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release


GARY, IND - For the second day in a row, the RailCats offense came alive in the late innings as Aljay Davis' sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth gave Gary their third victory in three tries during the exhibition season, a 9-6 win over Evansville.

Evansville rookie Ryan Kreskie smacked a two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning off of reliever Marco Gonzalez to give the Otters the lead, 6-5. Gonzalez, attempting to shut the door with a second inning of relief, walked Deaun Williams with one out before allowing the opposite field home run to the left-handed hitting Kreskie.

The lead was short lived, however, as the RailCats rallied in the bottom of the ninth. Zac Mitchell tripled to left-center to lead off the inning. Drew Martinez followed him with a double-his fifth hit of the exhibition season-that landed just inside the left field line to tie the game. Martinez then stole third to set up Davis' sacrifice fly.

The game continued for reliever Eric Massingham to get his work in and catcher Ryan Babineau smacked his second hit of the day to drive in two more before the game came to an end at 9-6.

Trailing 4-1 to begin the bottom of the seventh inning, the RailCats took advantage of the wildness of lefty reliever Garrett Bullock. With the bases loaded, Brian Kolb brought the RailCats within one with a two-run single to right field, scoring Christian Guerrero and Ryan Liddle. The RailCats tied the game during the next hitter when Bullock's wild pitch allowed Greg Bachman to score. Bullock walked five of the eight men he faced.

Greg Bachman put his mark on the game, scoring the tying run in the seventh and driving in the RailCats fifth run in the eighth.

Right-hander Will Krout started for the RailCats and was cruising through the first four innings, allowing just a solo home run to Taylor Black in the third before running into trouble in the fifth.

Evansville plated two runs in their half of the fifth; both with two outs in the inning. Runey Davis reached on an infield single deep in the hole at shortstop and then came in on John Schultz's triple into the gap in right-center field. Taylor Black followed with his second extra base hit of the day, a double over the head of Christian Guerrero to give the Otters a 3-1 advantage.

Krout finished his day hurling 4 2/3 innings allowing 6 hits, 3 runs, no walks and striking out 3. The Santa Rosa, Calif. native threw 61 pitches, 44 strikes.

The Otters extended their lead to 4-1 in the top of the seventh when John Nestor knocked the second solo home run of the day for the visitors; this one off reliever Kyle Lindquist.

The RailCats scored the game's first run on Craig Maddox's RBI single in the bottom of the first. Mike Massaro walked with one out and moved to second on Christian Guerrero's single to left field. Maddox followed with a base hit to left that scored Massaro from second.

The RailCats will play their fourth exhibition game on Friday against a team of Local Stars from the Northwest Indiana area and spring training invitees at 1:10pm at U.S. Steel Yard Field. Admission is free to all exhibition games.

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