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Scorpions can't trick RoadRunners

August 3, 2007 - Golden Baseball League (GBL)
Yuma Scorpions News Release


A trick play ignited tempers in the St. George RoadRunners dugout. And it might have fired them up. With the Scorpions ahead 7-2 in the third inning, Yuma worked the hidden ball trick to perfection to get out of a bases-loaded jam. An outburst resulted in three ejections - St. George pitching coach Darin Kracl, Geoff Wagner - the victim of the prank, and relief pitcher Jamie Douglas.

St. George argued that Scorpions starting pitcher Eric Maydew touched the rubber, resulting in a balk.

The Roadrunners responded with nine unanswered runs to stun the Scorpions 9-7 Thursday at Desert Sun Stadium.

So far this season, the St. George RoadRunners are the only team not fazed by the Scorpions' dominance at Desert Sun Stadium.

All four of the Scorpions' home losses have come against the Golden Baseball League 's pinata, which has won only eight games all year.

With a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second, the Scorpions batted through the order, scoring four times.

With the game tied at seven in the top of the seventh, designated hitter Brett Flowers led off with a single and advanced to third on Juan Melo 's double to left. He scored on an RBI ground out, and Melo later crossed the plate on a fielding miscue.

The Scorpions scored in each of the first three innings to take a five-run lead.

Six of Yuma 's first seven hitters reached base safely en route to a four-run second inning. Second baseman Hector Bernal drove in the first run with a seeing-eye single to right. After two unearned runs on a wild pickoff attempt and a passed ball, third baseman Henry Calderon belted an RBI double off the wall in center.

But the game took a strange twist in the third. St. George had the makings of a big inning after three straight one-out singles, but settled for only one run when the Scorpions got out of a bases-loaded jam by inducing a pop up, and then tagged out Wagner leading off first on the hidden ball play.

Perhaps that momentarily fired up St. George. The Roadrunner fought back to tie the game with five runs in their next at-bat. A two-base error allowed two runs to score and pull the Roadrunners within 7-5, and Melo 's two-run homer to right evened the score. He went 3-for-5 on the night.

Yuma missed an opportunity to regain the lead in the bottom of the fifth when Maikel Jova and Rich Janeway were both thrown out on the basepaths. Jova was thrown out at the plate trying to score on a bloop single to left by A.J. Valentine, and Janeway was cut down trying to advance to third on the play for a 7-2-5 double play to end the inning.



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