Six Runs Allowed in First Doom Osprey
July 29, 2014 - Pioneer League (PL)
Missoula PaddleHeads News Release
MISSOULA, Mont. - Great Falls came out on fire and put six runs on the scoreboard in the opening frame and bashed six home runs in a 12-4 defeat of Missoula. The loss dropped the
Osprey to 0-3 in he second half and 17-24 overall. Great Falls (2-1, 25-16) continued the series pattern through nine games of the away team coming away victorious in each matchup.
Trevor Mitsui belted his team-high tenth dinger of the year to lead off the second inning. Missoula's other scoring inning came in the fifth, when Justin Williams launched a sacrifice fly to right field and Damion Smith followed later in the inning with a two-run single. Williams singled back in the third inning to run his hit streak to 23 games.
For Great Falls, the six runs in the first would hand Gabriel Moya (2-3) the loss on two-thirds of a inning, five hits, six runs, four earned, a walk and two strikeouts. Kevin Simmons was stellar in relief until giving up back-to-back solo shots in the fifth inning. Simmons would put together 5.1 innings of relief with a career-best five strikeouts.
Alex Powers (1-1) got the win in relief for the Voyagers with two shutout frames in the sixth and seventh innings. Starter Zach Thompson went 4.1 innings and gave up five hits on three earned runs with three walks and four strikeouts.
Offensively, Zach Fish and Toby Thomas each homered for the Voyagers while Dillon Haupt and Patrick Palmeiro went yard twice.
Tomorrow figures to be a great pitching matchup as Missoula sends righty starter Dallas Newton on the mound with a 2-1 record and a 2.57 ERA against Great Falls starter Chris Freudenberg. The Voyager lefty is 3-3 with a 2.70 ERA.
Missoula continues its six-game homestand tomorrow at 7:05 p.m. against the Great Falls Voyagers. Tickets for all Osprey games are available at the MSO Hub Box Office, by phone at (406) 543-3300 and online at MissoulaOsprey.com.
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