Slammers Lock up Freedom to Snap Streak
June 26, 2019 - Frontier League (FL)
Florence Y'alls News Release
JOLIET, Ill - After reaching a new milestone in a seven-game winning streak, the Florence Freedom, presented by Titan Mechanical Solutions, fell flat against the Joliet Slammers, 5-1, in an early morning day game at DuPage Medical Group Field on Wednesday afternoon.
Florence would score first, plating their lone run in the top of the fourth, when an Ausitn Wobrock double off Slammers (14-27) starter Matt Quintana (2-3) bled immediately into an RBI-single from Caleb Lopes as the score became, 1-0, visitors.
A late scratch after waking up ill in the morning, Mike Castellani would not take the ball in the middle-game for the Freedom (27-13), who turned to right-hander Zak Spivy (0-2) for the spot start, his second of the season.
Spivy would pitch around a pair of Joliet threats in the first and second frames, and seemed to settle in before running into trouble again in the fifth. In his first start of the series, Peyton Isaacson stalemated the score at 1 with a solo-blast to right-center before Tyler Coolbaugh worked a walk. Spivy would strike out Jared Morello, but did not face another hitter, getting pulled in favor of Ryan Mordecai with two outs to find in the frame.
Mordecai would surrender a pair of singles, the last of which plated a pair of runs, one earned, as Jackson Pritchard saw a throw to the plate roll between his legs allowing trailing runner, Chaz Meadows to also score on the knock by Dash Winningham. One of the runs charged to Spivy, the right-hander saw his final line shift to 4.1 innings, four hits allowed leading to two runs, both earned, with three walks and a pair of whiffs.
Quintana was lights out for the Slammers, hurling seven one-run innings and allowing four hits with one walk and five strikeouts in victory.
Ahead, 3-1, in the bottom of the seventh, Winningham came through again, touching new Freedom signee, Joe Mortillaro for a two-run single as the Slammers raced in front, 5-1.
One night after crushing sixteen hits on the way to twelve runs, only Tyler Reichenborn would record a multi-hit game for the Freedom in the Wednesday matinee, finishing his day at the dish 2-3 with a double.
These two teams will get back to work on Thursday in the finale of this mid-week series at DuPage Medical Group Field. The Freedom will lean on ace right-hander, Tyler Gibson (4-1, 2.76 ERA) opposite a TBD starter for Joliet with first pitch slated for 7:05 p.m. CST.
The Florence Freedom are members of the Independent Frontier League and play all homegames at UC Health Stadium located at 7950 Freedom Way in Florence, KY. The Freedom can be found online at florencefreedom.com, or by phone at (859) 594-4487.
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