FL Joliet Slammers

Slammers Win 3-2 in 10 Innings

Published on August 17, 2014 under Frontier League (FL)
Joliet Slammers News Release


The Joliet Slammers-Presented by ATI Physical Therapy-defeated the Florence Freedom 3-2 in 10 innings on Sunday.

Joliet scored in the top of the 1st inning on a 2-out 2-run homer from Matt Weaver. The Slammers' Andrew Busby got off to a nice start and went into the 5th inning allowing no runs on two hits. Both hits were singles from Sam Eberle. In the bottom of the 5th, Adam Taylor put the Freedom on the scoreboard with a RBI double. In the 6th Zak Blair led off with a triple and scored on a run-scoring single from Eberle. At that point he had three of their six hits. Jordan Wellander came on in relief at that point and got out of the inning without any more damage with the game tied 2-2. The game stayed 2-2 into the bottom of the 9th. David Kubiak was on the mound for Joliet and gave up a leadoff single to Buddy Sosnoskie. The next hitter, Doug Joyce, bunted up in the air on an apparent bunt-and-run play. Grant DeBruin came in to catch the bunt and threw to first base for the big double play. Kubiak then retired the next hitter to force extra innings. In the top of the 10th, Adam Lewis walked with one out. Grant DeBruin then singled to left field. Chris Epps flew out to right and then Russell Moldenhauer was walked intentionally to load the bases for Matt Weaver. While Weaver was at the plate, Florence reliever Chris Squires threw a wild pitch in the dirt and Lewis scored what would be the winning run in the 3-2 final. Kubiak closed out the game in the bottom of the 10th and earned the win. Joliet moves to 14-15 in one run games on the season and 5-7 in extra inning contests.

Joliet returns home to play Rockford in a three-game set that begins with a 2-dollar Tuesday on August 19th at 7:05pm. There will also be 2-buck Bud and Bud Light drafts. Awareness Wednesday will feature Ed Randall's Fans for the Cure, concerning Prostate Cancer. Thirsty Thursday will be Jimmy Buffet night. Slammers action this summer is broadcast live on 1340 WJOL and wjol.com. The audio/video feed of home games this season can be seen for free at independentprofessionalbaseball.com.

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