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RailCats Win, Club is Again Alone in First Place

June 1, 2005 - Northern League (NL)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release


Gary, Ind. - Jay Pecci and Curt Lee delivered back-to-back two-out run-scoring singles in the fourth inning to lift the Gary SouthShore RailCats to a 4-3 victory over the St. Paul Saints at U. S. Steel Yard on Wednesday. The victory improved the RailCats record to 8-4 and lifted them back into sole possession of first place in the Northern League's Southern Division. St. Paul falls to 7-5, one game out of first.

St. Paul began the night with a three-run first inning as the first three batters of the game eventually came in to score. Kris Cox started the game with an infield hit, extending his hitting streak to 12 straight, and Justin Hall followed with a double to right to advance Cox to third. RailCats starting pitcher Quintin Oldenburg issued back-to-back walks to the next two hitters to force in a run. Tee Brown grounded into a double play as another run scored, and Billy Munoz added a two-out, run-scoring single to make it 3-0.

The RailCats scored two runs in the bottom of the first to make it a 3-2 game. Anthony Iapoce started the rally with a bunt single, went to second on an error, to third on Tanner Townsend's sacrifice, and after a walk to Scott Samuels, Iapoce scored on Jason Colson's single to left. Samuels scored on Steve Haake's single to right.

In the fourth, Colson led off with a double to right and Haake walked. Jose Yepez grounded into a double play as Colson went to third. Alex Taylor walked, and Pecci followed with a hard single to left to bring in Colson and tie the game. Lee added a base hit to right to drive in Taylor and give the RailCats a 4-3 lead.

After allowing the three-run first, RailCats pitchers shutout the Saints on three hits the rest of the way. Oldenburg (3-0) last five innings to earn the win, allowing three hits and three runs with three walks and no strikeouts. Cody Fisher tossed two innings of middle relief before Dominic Woody worked out of trouble in a scoreless eighth. Derek Lopez pitched a perfect ninth, notching two strikeouts, to earn his third save.

Iapoce led an 11-hit RailCats attack, going 3 for 5. Colson and Yepez each had two hits.

The two clubs will meet again Thursday in the rubber match of the three game set. Greg Bruso (0-1, 2.29) will pitch for Gary against St. Paul's Darren Truty (1-0, 2.51).

Notes: The win was the RailCats fifth come-from-behind victory of the season and the three- run deficit was the largest they have overcome...The three runs scored by St. Paul in the first inning were the most by a Gary opponent in the first inning this season, while the two runs the RailCats scored in the first were their first first-inning runs of the season...RailCats relievers allowed one run over the last nine games covering 30 and one-third innings...Yepez extended his hitting streak to a team season high six straight games...Pending other Northern League action Wednesday, Oldenburg became the league's first three game winner.

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